Tag: Business
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Time to put real thrust behind India’s soft power
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India’s cultural diplomacy is entrenched in ‘babudom’. It must urgently get some real teeth and direction to reflect the aspirations of a new India, writes India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa. Most Indians still don’t know much about Brazil beyond the facts that it is a fellow BRICS nation and the…
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Modi's approach to the Arab 'problem' contrasts to Trump's bluster
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As isolationist tendencies gather momentum in the West, India as a liberal democracy ready to do business can offer a template for a better world order, writes India Inc. CEO Manoj Ladwa. The dynamics shaping the new world order are not new. Now, as at almost any other time in…
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Gujarat – India's Laboratory of Development
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Gujarat is a laboratory of a development model that is uniquely home-grown, writes India Inc. Founder & CEO Manoj Ladwa. A lot has been written and even more spoken of the Gujarat Model of Development that has been praised the world over, including by the United Nations. But in India,…
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Trumponomics: How Will Trump’s Presidency Impact India?
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If candidate donald Trump set the cat among the pigeons in India’s policy circles, President-elect Trump still hasn’t allayed all the anxieties he stirred during his election campaign. The question many analysts are asking is: How will Trump’s presidency impact India? There are no clear answers yet, despite his avowed…
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West must not shut doors to Indian talent
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by Manoj Ladwa I, of course, understand the pressures the UK, US and other Western economies are under through unchecked immigration and the sapping of their own homegrown skills talent pool. However, the market evangelists have converted to the dogmas of those they preached free trade to. How else can one square…
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Trade and terror don't go hand in hand
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by Manoj Ladwa India yesterday conducted measured ‘surgical strikes’ on known terror camps in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) in response to repeated terror attacks supported from across the border in recent months. US National Security Advisor Susan Rice called Ajit Doval, her opposite number in India, and told him the White…
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IIFA FICCI Global Business Forum
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Spoke at the IIFA FICCI Global Business Forum yesterday with Film Producer Mukesh Bhatt on India’s soft power. And a fun filled evening with friends at IIFA Rocks – where (guys & gals) Shilpa Shetty totally Rocked! Now just setting off for the IIFA Awards, alas. Will miss thinking about…
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Easing out India’s ‘suitcase’ approach to business
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One of my very first tasks as a young corporate lawyer in the 1990s was to prepare a Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) application for a large European company that wished to establish a manufacturing unit in India.
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Is the UK gearing up?
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Here is my publisher’s note in the latest issue of the India Investment Journal. Is the UK gearing up? The new India under Narendra Modi presents both an economic opportunity and a strategic responsibility for the UK. The UK’s 1 million strong Indian diaspora can play a pivotal role, should…
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India is abysmal when it comes to ease of doing business. Will it ever change? Here’s what Manoj Ladwa would do.
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Has doing business in India become easier? The simple answer is no. I have been advising foreign companies establish and do business (big and small) in India for nearly 20 years. During this time India has transformed from a closed economy to an open one and from an agriculture-entrenched system…