One of the major paradigm shifts one sees of late in India’s political economy is a focus on states....
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Ageing societies pose several challenges like slow economic growth, providing healthcare facilities for the elderly, and taking care of...
India’s power sector is heavily dependent on coal for power generation. It is because roughly 61% of the country’s installed...
Recent events in the Chinese economy and its impact on the world markets merit attention. With August 24 being...
Indian exports have fallen for the eighth consecutive month – 10.3 percent from the July 2014 level of $25.793...
Two recent events have a lot to offer in terms of understanding India’s slow and clamorous development process. The...
The financial system in India has witnessed marked changes since the time of liberalization. Banking has been one of...
As India celebrates and enters its 69th year of independence, it is important to look at some of the country’s achievements...
Corruption has been at the forefront of political debate in the country for quite some time now. In the past, the previous Union...
In the world economy, the importance of the service sector cannot be overstated. The share of services in the world...
The manufacturing sector has been an Achilles’ heel of the Indian economy in the recent past. Manufacturing sector’s share...
Infrastructure development is critical for economic development. It has a domino effect on the other sectors of the economy...
India is at a very interesting stage in its history. It is emerging as a major global economy, a significant...
A globally competitive economy often rests on a robust and competitive banking system. The Indian banking system comprises of...
The recent third bi-monthly monetary policy review of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was in line with what...
Competitiveness is a recent construct in the history of economic thought that has gained prominence over the past 25...
A vision is not a project report or a plan target. It is an articulation of the desired end results...
The recently released revised draft of the ‘Indian Financial Code’ has attracted a lot of media attention and rightly...
India has one of the longest coastlines in the world at approximately 7,500 km. A longer coastline is responsible...
India has a very high proportion of the workforce that are employed in the informal sector. It poses several...
Till date, India’s policymakers have been slow to realize that the vast number of people it possesses can be...
Skilling is one of the major challenges facing India today. India has at present roughly 65 percent of the...
The acronym BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) is attributed to economist Jim O’Neill of the Goldman...
Urban planning and its execution at present in India can at best be described as being rudimentary. The rains...
The Greek referendum that was announced on June 26 by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has taken Europe by storm. The ‘No’ side has...
A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get...
Cities are the building blocks of any country. They are the cradles of creativity and innovation and drive regional...
India’s position, since the Narendra Modi government completed one year in office, has been a matter of wide-ranging discussion...
Development plans for constructing India’s first Greenfield smart city were however drafted way back in 2007. Gujarat International Finance...
India, since Independence, has achieved modest success when it comes to some aspects of public health, but much remains...
Power is critical for economic development and human progress. It has a bearing on not only economic growth but...
The railways sector has seen some activity in the past few months. Not only are operational changes being brought...
The recently released rankings of the Times Higher Education for Asia paint a grim picture of Indian Higher Education....
Leveraging human capital is a fascinating topic for developing societies. It is because social and economic progress is critically...
For all the hype that was recently created in the mainstream media over the Indian economy “overtaking” the Chinese economy in...
What is the role of corporations in society? The question has had distinct kinds of responses from varied thinkers....
The Narendra Modi government completed one year in office on Monday (May 25). One of the centerpieces of why the BJP-led NDA dispensation...
In economics generally speaking about something that is scare is valued more as compared to something that is relatively...
Modi Government is about to complete one year in office and one year is a significant time for understanding...
Shared Value Initiative India (SVII) was announced as a regional partner of the global Shared Value Initiative (www.sharedvalue.org) at the...
One of the biggest challenges India faces and will continue to face in the forthcoming decades is in the...
Fast Expanding Markets (FEM), as a new unit of measure, are micro economic indicators which demonstrate the health of...
Recently, I had an opportunity to interact with Healthcare experts who had converged in Delhi at the EU India...
The tragic incident of a farmer committing suicide at Chief Minister Kejirwal’s event has again brought to the fore...
The government’s manufacturing focus is evident. On the recent three-country foreign visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Make in India campaign received...
The ongoing debate on ‘net neutrality’ is quite instructive. Four points merit attention to understanding the debate and its...
Walking down most streets in any major city in India, one notices pollution in one form or another. The...
Social progress is a term used to describe a societies’ move beyond just the GDP numbers to look at...
The Indian government, on first day of fiscal 2015-16, released the Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) that will run till...
Education and health are two responsibilities governments across the world strive to fulfill, as these are imperative for social...
On March 23, 2015 Lee Kuan Yew breathed his last. Lee was one of the tallest leaders in the...
The Aam Aadmi Party’s electoral success in the Delhi assembly polls is a reflective of how the people of capital rate...
The recent Swacch Bharat campaign kicked off by the Prime Minister of India, with its thrust on cleanliness has...
The Rajya Sabha passed the Insurance Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2015 on March 14 after the Lok Sabha had earlier...
Over the past year or so, the government has tried to recalibrate the institutional foundations of India. These include...
Recent developments within the power sector merit attention. The first of these is to do with performance of the...
The recent budget has been pragmatic that focuses on enhancing the foundations of competitiveness and social wellbeing of its...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on February 28 delivered a budget that will go down as one of the best since liberalization...
One of the greatest shifts the modern world has seen is in the context of urbanization with more than...
One of the key areas where the new government has focused aggressively is the area of external affairs. Prime...
While various static and dynamic factors determine the growth of a nation, innovation remains a key driver of its...
Three recent reports from different perspectives mention the prospects of the global economy and the risks that are inherent. These include...
The Oxford online dictionary describes leadership as: “The action of leading a group of people or an organization, or...
As 2015 brings in new personal resolutions for people, it ushers in new hope and fresh activity. Everyone is...
A globally competitive economy requires a robust and competitive banking system. The present banking system is a result of reforms and...
The past week, apart from ushering in the New Year was also witness to the birth of a new...
Over the past few weeks, there has been a growing interest among media in Inddia’s indirect tax regime. On...
One of the fundamental questions in the realm of economics is – what drives prosperity? One may ask prosperity...
Crude oil prices have plummeted globally. The present levels have consequences for both oil exporting countries like Russia, Nigeria,...
Over the past few years, we have been particularly interested in studying India’s competitiveness. It is because, understanding it...
During the past few week notable changes have happened in the external and internal policy environment, which merit attention....
Research and development (R&D) forms the basis of future competitiveness of any nation. It is because R&D is critical...
Intellectual Property Rights are important from the standpoint of maintaining present as well as ensuring future competitiveness. They also...
Entrepreneurship and innovation are intrinsically linked with growth and development of any economy. Newer ways of competing define not...
The India Competitiveness Report envisages and looks holistically at the competitiveness of India. While we can certainly already see...
“The Council champions the belief that to be competitive, and raise the standard of living Americans, we must...
The world is becoming increasingly ‘connected’ both physically and digitally. It has raised the fundamental ‘death of distance’ debate....
The theory that developing countries should attract investments is based on the fact that investments especially FDI’s have immense...
Allegations of predatory pricing may not hold ground in the high-pitch turf battle for consumers’ pocket between e-tail and...
India is an infrastructure-starved country, be it roads, ports, railways, airports, power generation or distribution facilities, irrigation facilities, access...
Recently we had the privilege of organizing the National Competitiveness Forum on September 26, 2014, where leaders from four...
The title of this article draws from a section in the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2014-15 that...
Citizen control and takeover by companies is often pointed out as an Achilles’ heel in any capitalist society. People...
When PM Modi spoke to the people from the ramparts of the Red Fort on this independence day, he...
Cities have been the engines of growth and prosperity since time immemorial. In fact, it may be surprising to...
World Economic Forum released its first report on “The Competitiveness of Cities” on August 13, 2014. It includes case...
Competitiveness is defined as the productivity with which a country’s uses its resources like land (natural resources), labor (human...
Human development is a process of enlarging people’s choices. The most critical ones are to lead a long and...
India has long been considered a goldmine of potential, banking on its ability to integrate despite the diversity posing...
The recently concluded BRICS annual summit held in Brazil resulted in the important Fortaleza Declaration and Action plan from...
The past few days have been particularly historic when talking about the impact they can have on the trajectory...
Over the past few years we have heard all sorts of deficits, which have been ailing India. The most...
Urbanization has been an integral part of India’s growth story. The country today has an urban population of 377.10...
Every state or region needs to chart its own course in overcoming the challenges to wealth-creation Remarkable variations are...
It’s time to break out of the silos of inherited prosperity for a breakthrough in wealth-creation Competitiveness can be...
According to a leading economist and social scientist Richard Florida, creative class is the key driving force for economic...
Delhi at the moment is under a whiff of fresh air with the Narendra Modi regime taking charge at...
We are seeing the seeding of a remarkable shift and modification of some archaic structures and mechanisms in the...
India is a country of a billion strong people which is expected to increase to 1.6 billion by 2050. Presently,...
