In response to the financial crisis, banks improved their credit standards and one of the silver linings of the crisis has been an increase in financial creativity in how people raise money. Its not very clear if this is temporary or a structural change in the financial system, however, it has left certain profitable niches…
Green Transport is a holistic approach to transportation focused on achieving a clean low-carbon and low-pollution future. Rapidly developing countries, with their exploding car ownerships and travel rates, must focus on making transport more ecologically friendly. India in particular has great potential to reap the benefits of green transport initiatives due to its huge population…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s promise of acche din is premised on moving away from the erstwhile dole and entitlement model, to one that empowers youth by generating large scale employment. In that context, officially released figures from the Labour Bureau are alarming. Employment generation in eight labour intensive sectors (textiles, garments, leather, jewellery, BPOs, handlooms,…
Urbanization has been one of the prevailing contemporary progressions as a growing share of the global population lives in cities. Transportation in urban areas is profoundly intricate because of multitude of the modes involved, of starting points and destinations, and the variety in traffic. Traditionally, the focus of urban transportation has been on passengers as…
In 2014, the newly elected Government, realising the potential of domestic stock of gold, decided to introduce gold related schemes that would unlock the idle yellow metal lying in private lockers. With the objective to mobilise gold held by retail and institutional investors in the country, the Hon’ble Finance Minister of India in his budget…
In 2014, the newly elected Government, realising the potential of domestic stock of gold, decided to introduce gold related schemes that would unlock the idle yellow metal lying in private lockers.With the objective to mobilise gold held by retail and institutional investors in the country, the Hon’ble Finance Minister of India in his budget speech…
The National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), seems to have finally come out of its Odin nap (not sleep) with its first investment. NIIF has been structured as a fund of funds and set up as Category II Alternate Investment Fund (AIF) under the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Regulations. Its proposed corpus…
The rapid urbanization in conjunction with industrialization has resulted in the growth of slums. Misplaced policies and bad administration have been a major contributing factor. Most of the Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) are ill-equipped to raise adequate revenue, which in turn results in a shortage of funds to undertake infrastructure development and service delivery. Furthermore,…
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One often wonders if the Union Budget is as big a deal amongst all sections of the population as it is in India. Usually, the budget is a somber boring exercise of number allocations and expense statements. In India however, it has become somewhat synonymous to big bang policy announcements and that time of the…
In a series of publications, Centennial Group (http://www.centennial-group.com) has described alternate scenarios of where the world economy could be by 2050. While there are other more aspirational scenarios, even under the central scenario the world will be very different than what it is today: it will be much more prosperous, with total global GDP three…
Prior to the 2014 general election, Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Dr. Ramgopal Agarwala and Mr. Rajesh Shah had come together to write a book with the objective of capturing public and expert opinion on the way forward for the development of India. The fundamental premise for writing ‘Resurgent India’ was to provide a long term strategic…