Inclusive GVCs for Human-Centric Globalization
India’s G20 presidency is a major opportunity to promote inclusive and human-centric approach of development through economic globalization and bolstering of global value chains (GVCs)
Category: Industry
The Future needs Sustainable Mobility
Mobility is the lifeline of any economic activity. The last year, of course, was an outlier when the economies the world over felt the heat like never before. Even as we hope to leave the surreal world of 2020 behind to the dawn of a ‘New Normal’, the overall...
G20 leaders recognize the Importance of Digital Economy
The 10th G20 Summit was just concluded at Buenos Aires. G20 (or Group of Twenty) is an international forum for the governments and central bank governors from 19 countries and the European Union and was setup in 2008 during the financial crisis. The key challenge, at that time, was to...
B20 Recommendations to G20 for Digital Economy & Industry 4.0
The G20 countries have the opportunity to embrace innovation and transformative technologies, recognizing different digitalization maturity levels among members, that will promote fair and sustainable development across all G20 countries and around the world. A revolution underpinned by artificial intelligence and other technologies is already underway and will redefine the...
Priorities for India’s trade policy in the midst of Rising Protectionism
Emerging economies may turn out to be the collateral victims of these new trade wars as US and China happens to be the major trading partners of large number of countries from the developing world. For India, too, China & US are the top two trading partners. This will have...
Transforming Indian Railways – From Chugging To Shinkansen –
India is amongst the fastest growing nations in the world today. However, the nation’s potential is not unleashed to the fullest given several challenges of education, job creation, and weak infrastructure amongst others. Our Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has launched several initiatives such as Make in India, Skill...
World Bank Rankings – Do They Tell The Whole Story!
Earlier this month World Bank released its Doing Business Report (DBR) which ranks countries on Ease of Doing Business. India was placed at 130 out of 180 countries – a dismal improvement of a single rank from last year. The Indian Government as well as several stakeholders have since expressed...
Industry and Biodiversity – Are they really at Cross Purposes?
In my last essay I shared some thoughts on the alarming rate at which the Earth’s biodiversity is declining and the need for its conservation in a crisis mode. It cannot be denied that economic growth and a depleting biodiversity have an inversely proportional relationship. Over centuries as economies have...
The Biodiversity Challenge
– Unraveling the Enigma – “The world doesn’t belong to us, we belong to it. Always have, always will. We belong to the world. We belong to the community of life on this planet-it doesn’t belong to us. We got confused about that, now it’s time to set the record...
Happening Haryana!
The Banquet hall at the Leela Hotel in Gurgaon bore a celebratory look. Close to a thousand businessmen, investors, managers from twelve countries apart from India had congregated at the venue of the Happening Haryana Global Investors Summit. I was still soaking in the vibrant atmosphere when I saw the...