Category: Articles
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RCEP lessons: India must reform faster to become more competitive
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India’s withdrawal from the RCEP trade pact indicates that it remains open for business on its own terms and is also an acceptance that reforms must carry on at pace, writes India Inc. Founder & CEO Manoj Ladwa. Unanimity and consensus are difficult to achieve in India but Prime Minister…
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India’s water woes – need for global partnerships and investment
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India accounts for 18 per cent of the world’s population but only has 4 per cent of the globe’s usable water sources. There is an urgent need for world class technologies, partnerships and investment, writes India Inc. Founder & CEO Manoj Ladwa. Of all the political and economic fault lines…
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5 ways India can attract companies moving out of China
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India Inc. Founder and CEO Manoj Ladwa outlines five ways in which India can attract companies looking for alternative markets to China. Soon after cutting corporate tax rates last month, India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman explained that the move would help shed some light on what foreign companies were looking…
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Battleground India: The next frontier in online streaming
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India presents the next frontier in online streaming, opening up multiple possibilities for global players, writes India Inc. Founder and CEO Manoj Ladwa. Boris Johnson looks to be on the verge of pulling off his Herculean mission of passing the Brexit deal with the EU, but I am going to…
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Modi-Xi offsite holds lessons for other powers
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The two neighbouring powers – not inimical to each other but not quite on the same page on most issues either – have thankfully found a way of discussing their bilateral issues, warts and all. This is a lesson that other powers could also learn from, writes India Inc. Founder…
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UK’s Labour Party is recklessly out of sync with New India
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Labour’s politics is terribly and recklessly out of sync with Britain’s business and wider strategic interests in aligning with democratic India; the US Democrats would do well to take note, writes India Inc. Founder & CEO Manoj Ladwa. The Labour Party has historically enjoyed good relations with India and its…
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India’s bank mergers a good move, but overcoming integration challenges will be key
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India’s recent bank mergers have brought the challenges within the Indian banking system to the forefront again, but the road ahead is brighter, writes India Inc. Founder and CEO Manoj Ladwa. The four biggest banks in the world (by assets) are Chinese. According to the S&P Global Market Intelligence 2019,…
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US, India must not lose sight of the bigger picture
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The India-US partnership must succeed for the emergence of a new rules-based global order, writes India Inc. Founder and CEO Manoj Ladwa. speaks of potential. There’s a lot that India and the US can achieve together besides enhanced trade. The Indo-US partnership, which many have called the defining partnership of…
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India’s corruption crackdown opens doors to foreign investment
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In aggressively cracking down on corruption, whilst opening up to more foreign direct investment, the Modi government walks the talk and sends a clear signal of the direction of travel for India’s economy, writes India Inc. Founder & CEO Manoj Ladwa. Two apparently unrelated developments over the last nine days…
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India and Russia tango in Vladivostok, but…
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India’s reaffirmation of its friendship with Russia and the opening of new business opportunities will make some in the West uneasy, but the imperative of containing the shadow of the big dragon in the room should bring everyone around, writes India Inc. Founder and CEO, Manoj Ladwa. I don’t think…