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Resolving India’s urban governance challenges
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The recent flooding in Chennai and our reaction to it points to a deeper malaise affecting us all. It...
COP-21 must find practical, pragmatic, sustainable solutions
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0A staggering 147 heads of state have assembled at Paris to discuss and possibly find a solution to the...
India’s East Asian push will be mutually beneficial
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0India has seen a strong standalone performance in its growth in the recent past as compared to the other BRICS...
Parliamentary disruption and India’s competitiveness
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0India has a parliamentary form of democracy, the governance system consisting of the legislature, the executive and the judiciary. The...
Way forward is to get things done without legislation
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The recent change to the FDI policy regime by the Indian government is a welcome move. In spite of the huge...
Greater equanimity required in understanding tolerance
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0A raging debate has risen in India about tolerance or, as some would argue, the reduction of it in the country....
Healthcare, education and law & order are thought to be the main concerns of nation-states across the world. The...
RBI’s monetary policy decision and its impact
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Last week Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan cut the repo rate by 50 basis points to 6.75 percent. This...
State competitiveness as a tool for economic development
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, Future of States, India Council, 0One of the major paradigm shifts one sees of late in India’s political economy is a focus on states....
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...
Achievements and future challenges of independent India
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0As India celebrates and enters its 69th year of independence, it is important to look at some of the country’s achievements...
Balance could build consensus on monetary policy
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The recently released revised draft of the ‘Indian Financial Code’ has attracted a lot of media attention and rightly...
India should leverage economic geography for development
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0India has one of the longest coastlines in the world at approximately 7,500 km. A longer coastline is responsible...
Till date, India’s policymakers have been slow to realize that the vast number of people it possesses can be...
BRICS, development and the emerging world order
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The acronym BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) is attributed to economist Jim O’Neill of the Goldman...
No easy choice for European leaders for Greece
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The Greek referendum that was announced on June 26 by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has taken Europe by storm. The ‘No’ side has...
Has India become globally competitive since Modi government?
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0India’s position, since the Narendra Modi government completed one year in office, has been a matter of wide-ranging discussion...
The healthcare challenge in India
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, Healthcare, India Council, 0India, since Independence, has achieved modest success when it comes to some aspects of public health, but much remains...
Railways’ reforms can transformatively impact 1.2 bn Indians
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The railways sector has seen some activity in the past few months. Not only are operational changes being brought...
Leveraging human capital is a fascinating topic for developing societies. It is because social and economic progress is critically...
Will the Indian tiger catch the Chinese dragon?
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0For all the hype that was recently created in the mainstream media over the Indian economy “overtaking” the Chinese economy in...
Building an entrepreneurial ecosystem in India
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The Narendra Modi government completed one year in office on Monday (May 25). One of the centerpieces of why the BJP-led NDA dispensation...
Strengthening India’s healthcare system
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, Healthcare, India Council, 0One of the biggest challenges India faces and will continue to face in the forthcoming decades is in the...
‘Make in India’ can lead to ‘Decade of Manufacturing’
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, Manufacturing, 0The government’s manufacturing focus is evident. On the recent three-country foreign visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Make in India campaign received...
Environmental pollution and India’s competitiveness
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Walking down most streets in any major city in India, one notices pollution in one form or another. The...
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...
Recent development in power sector and India’s competitiveness
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Recent developments within the power sector merit attention. The first of these is to do with performance of the...
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...
India’s recent geopolitical and geo-economic engagement
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0One of the key areas where the new government has focused aggressively is the area of external affairs. Prime...
Three recent reports from different perspectives mention the prospects of the global economy and the risks that are inherent. These include...
Banking sector reforms and India’s competitiveness
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0A 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...
Strategic and economic consequences of cheap oil
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Crude 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...
Taking stock of India’s present policy environment
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0During 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 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 needs holistic infrastructure development
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0India 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...
Competition commission proving to be efficient regulator
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Citizen control and takeover by companies is often pointed out as an Achilles’ heel in any capitalist society. People...
Strengthening India’s institutional framework
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0When PM Modi spoke to the people from the ramparts of the Red Fort on this independence day, he...
Competitive cities as fundamental drivers of prosperity
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Cities have been the engines of growth and prosperity since time immemorial. In fact, it may be surprising to...
Created prosperity as the real goal of development
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Competitiveness 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...
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,...
Narendra Bhai Modi takes oath for the office of the Prime Minister today. India is looking forward to his...
Judgment doesn’t obviate need to discipline bureaucracy
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0Last week was exceptional as for the first time I saw a hole in the iron wall of protection...
Prasar Bharti needs autonomy, from bureauctats too
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, India Council, 0The debate is raging on the independence of Prasar Bharti. The contours of the debate are pertaining to the...
India’s quality of higher education must match enrolment
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, Education, 0India has the third largest education system in the world. This in itself is a remarkable achievement though the...
The mood for change in the country is strong, and it is imminent that we would have a new...
GDP has dominated as a measure of national performance over the large part of last hundred years though an...
The global slavery index 2013 gives us quite a dismal picture about a reality in India. The reality is...
According to the World Press Freedom Index that measures the level of freedom of information in 180 countries ranks...
Remove cumbersome regulations to limit bureaucratic corruption
amitkapoor, , Active Voice, Articles, 0We as citizens of the country need to understand and appreciate that two forms of corruption pervades our public...