India’s Reform Story becomes Reality

The withdrawal of the three pro-farmer bills by the Indian government, announced in a televised address to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has generated much debate on the trajectory of the economic reforms in India. While the small section of people agitating against the laws have welcomed it, a large section of...

Tech Wars are becoming the titanic struggle for supremacy

Technology has turned geopolitical. The US has blocked semiconductor exports to China. In turn, China has looked to limit US access to rare earth minerals, crucial to the manufacture of many tech products. Several countries have banned China’s Huawei from running their 5G telecommunications networks. India has also banned the Chinese-owned viral social media...

India is getting prepared on cracking Cryptos

Confidence in the Indian financial system has been breaking down for some time. Instead of trying to restore trust, it may be time to require less of it – with the help of an official rupee cryptocurrency. The last straw was the collapse of corporate lender Yes Bank Ltd., which failed in slow motion in...

India’s fiscal budget needs to be improved to prevent a further slowdown

The Indian middle class will count a few rupees, bank deposits will get a little security, and privatization enthusiasts will chew on a new player in the market. But other than high-sounding grandiose statements, Indian Budget 2020 has delivered no expectations. This was preordained, of course. If anyone is feeling disappointed, clearly that person...

The Great Indian Growth Story Is On Hold For Now

Until recently, Indians had gotten used to taking economic growth for granted. After a decade of annual growth averaging over 9%, India's economy weathered the post - 2008 worldwide recession and grew at a still impressive rate of 7% until 2014 -15. Nothing, it seemed, could stop the gravy train from rolling on....

India hopes for further growth through monetary policy

It's almost universally expected in India that the central bank's monetary policy committee will lower interest rates further after the recent cut. Many expect it to keep cutting until the policy rate hits 5% by the end of the year; it was 6% in June, and the committee cut it by unexpected 0.35 percentage...

India’s digital leap will reshape all the sectors in the upcoming decade

India is taking a great digital leap. Having reaped substantial rewards from building up its core digital sectors, such as information technology and business process management, the country starts now seizing new digital opportunities in many more sectors such as agriculture, education, energy, financial services, health care, and logistics. These opportunities in our opinion...

India is pushing for greater electric mobility

Making its presence felt in the global electric mobility market, India announced recently that it would offer 1.4 billion USD in subsidies for both buyers and manufacturers of electric vehicles and impose higher import tariffs to spur domestic companies to build vehicles. The government aims for 30% of its public transport to be electric...

No matter in which direction India’s politics might change – we at Calvin·Farel are optimistic about the prospects that it remains the world’s fastest growing large economy in the next years

India by no doubt is an important country. It will soon be the world’s most populous. It has the world’s fastest growing large economy. Not least, it remains a vibrant democracy. What happens in India is going to affect everybody on the planet. What, then, are its economic prospects? Nas Narendra Modi, its prime...

How India’s Government seeks to rein American tech giants influence on their continent and how we plan to access the Indian market

In India, American companies dominate the internet. Facebook’s WhatsApp is the most popular app on phones. Virtually every smartphone runs on Google’s Android system. YouTube is the favorite video platform, and Amazon is the No.2 online retailer. For some Indian political leaders, it is as if their nation – which was ruled by Britain for a century until 1947 –...

India on the right track- the 21st century belongs to India and Modi

At the sixth edition of the world Government Summit in Dubai, India was the guest country and Prime Minister Narendra Modi a keynote speaker. This was Modi’s second visit in less than two years and comes on the back of his hugely successful previous visit of 2015 which in itself was a landmark for no other prime minister...