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Economy
Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 23 jan 2015
Recent report by IHS, released at World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos, observed that India's economy is expected to grow faster than that of China's in the next few years. Moreover International Monetary Fund (IMF) also forecasts that India's economy would grow at 6.3% in 2015 and at 6.5% in 2016, overtaking China's projected rate of growth (2014 growth rate- China 7.4%, India 5.8%). Nobel Laureate & economist Paul Krugman while speaking on Indian economy recently commented that, 'The Indian economy has the potential to grow significantly, but a political struggle by the government to implement reforms may pose a challenge.' He further points out, 'The structural transition being attempted by China to become a consumption-driven economy from an investment-driven economy may lead to a "nasty recession". This could throw up opportunities for India, which is in the process of implementing structural reforms.' Read on...
The Financial Express:
India better positioned than China for growth: Krugman
Author:
Aveek Datta
Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 08 jan 2015
India requires substantial finance to fulfill the challenges of providing clean, affordable and reliable supplies of water and energy to its 1.3 billion citizens, and invest in enterprises that will provide livelihoods for an extra 10 million jobseekers every year. Moreover there is also need for level playing field of sustainability standards within the financial system. According to Naina Lal Kidwai, country head for HSBC India, 'For too long, a view has been allowed to take root in India that sustainability and finance are at odds; that taking account of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors raises costs, reduces returns and impedes development.' To scale up sustainable finance, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and the UNEP Inquiry have formed an advisory committee of leading financiers, policymakers and civil society representatives to generate practical policy options. Financial innovation is the essential need with mobilization of debt and equity capital markets. Investments in sustainable agriculture, clean energy, efficient buildings, mass transit, smart cities, clean water and waste provides the foundations for a thriving green bonds market. On India's equity markets, the new Infrastructure Investment Trust model offers another vehicle for investors to put money into sustainable infrastructure. Read on...
the guardian:
Investing in India requires sustainable, reliable finance
Author:
Nick Robins
Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 22 dec 2014
According to World Bank data for 2012, manufacturing as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for India is only 14.07%, while some of its neighbours like China (31.83%-2011 data), Sri Lanka (17.88%), Bangladesh (17.56%) and even Pakistan (14.47%), are ahead of it. On the other hand, two of its BRICS friends, China and Russian Federation (14.85%) are above, and two others, Brazil (12.95%) and South Africa (12.09%) are below it in their manufacturing activities. Although PM Narendra Modi's 'Make in India' campaign helps in providing focus and direction but a lot is desired and to be done on the ground by both the government and the private sector to uplift the lagging manufacturing sector. If the specific state-level data for current manufacturing activity is considered there is a clear disparity, with top 5 states accounting to 56% of the national manufacturing - Maharashtra (18.3%), Gujarat (12.8%), Tamil Nadu (9.9%), Uttar Pradesh (8.3%), Andhra Pradesh (6.4%). Barring a few exceptions like Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh and Odisha, the relative importance of manufacturing has been stagnant or have declined over time. Read on...
Livemint:
The Make in India dream
Authors:
Pramit Bhattacharya, Dipti Jain
Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 27 oct 2014
The newly appointed Chief Economic Adviser to Government of India, Arvind Subramanian, in an interview to IMF (International Monetary Fund) said, 'The Indian economy needs a couple of big things, better governance, a stronger state delivering security of contract, protecting property rights, providing infrastructure. You need a bigger role for the private sector, means getting rid of the lots of regulations that stifled the private sector, that stifled employment creation, that stifled the ability of the private sector to grow, to become big. These are the kind of broad twin challenges that India faces.' He further mentions scarcity of coal and electricity as reasons for stalled private sector projects. He explains that growth has to be brought back to 7.5-8% consistently for about 10-25 years to address these various challenges including jobs for the expanding labor force. Read on...
The Financial Express:
Arvind Subramanian: Bottlenecks must be cleared to woo private investment
Author:
NA
Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 30 aug 2014
International Monetary Fund (IMF), with inputs from readers, select global economists and journal editors, recently compiled a list of 25 'Generation Next' economists, below the age of 45, who are influencing and shaping the way one understands global economy. In this list there are four Indian-origin economists - (1) Raj Chetty of Harvard University (Research: Combines empirical evidence & economic theory to help design more effective government policies; Equality of opportunity); (2) Gita Gopinath of Harvard University (Research: International finance & macroeconomics with focus on issues related to international price setting, currency choice & exchange rate pass-through, business cycles & crisis); (3) Parag Pathak of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Research: Market & mechanism design; Labor economics; Education economics & reform); (4) Amit Seru of University of Chicago (Research: Financial intermediation & regulation; Resource allocation & internal organization of firms; Performance evaluation & incentives). Read on...
IBN Live:
Four gen-next Indian-origin economists in IMF list of 25
Author:
NA
Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 02 mar 2014
Developed economies strongly recovered during 2013 and showed continuous improvement in growth rates since 2008 financial crisis. But similar performance is not been observed in case of developing and emerging economies in 2013. This is expected to change in 2014 and according to experts, India's growth rate may reach closer to 6%. Richard Cox points out current account deficit and declining currency value as main problems facing Indian economy. According to him upcoming general elections and expected economc reforms are creating a wave of optimism. Indian rupee will likely see gains. Moreover forex markets in India would be attractive for traders with environment more conducive for taking added risk. Read on...
Epoch Times:
Is India's Economy on the Path to Recovery?
Author:
Richard Cox
Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 01 mar 2014
'Taylor Rule', developed by Stanford University economist John B. Taylor, is an interest rate feedback rule of how central banks should set short-term interest rates as economic conditions change to meet the goals of economic stability together with desired inflation rate. The rule states that short-term interest rates should be determined by two factors - inflation and output gaps. In the article Professor Tulsi Jayakumar of S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, explores the dynamics of India's policy rates, how they relate to global policy trends and their comparison with rates prescribed by the Taylor Rule. He mentions the findings of recent RBI study that was based on the quarterly estimates for the period 2000-01 to 2012-13. According to the study, proxy policy rate (average overnight call money rate) shows greater divergence from standard Taylor Rule interest rate in the post-crisis period (after the third quarter of 2007-08) than the pre-crisis period. For most of the crisis-period the policy rate has been above the Taylor Rule rate. Also the gap has narrowed in 2012-13. Another significant finding is that the higher the deviation of the policy rate from that implied by the standard Taylor Rule (interest rate gap), higher is the deviation of the inflation from its desired level (inflation gap). Read on...
Live Mint:
The Taylor Rule and interest rates in India
Author:
Tulsi Jayakumar
Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 16 feb 2014
In the article, Udit Misra interviews Amartya Sen on his recently published book with Jean Dreze, 'An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions'. Amartya Sen mentions his views on the evolution of the democratic response to various issues, like corruption, crime against women etc. According to him, people by participating in protests demonstrated their concerns for fellow human beings while government's show of urgency in initiating the procedures to bring criminals to justice in response to the protests and agitation is a significant positive development. But there is a lot more that is to be done to protect the vulnerable and the poor in the Indian society. The other points he brought to notice include - his opposition to the Licence Raj; Left vs Right in the Indian politics while most people are neither of the two; importance of human capital with emphasis on education and healthcare; secularism and secular leadership mentioning the successful example of Lee Kwan Yew of Singapore; short-term approach of the government while dealing with economic growth and providing concession to businesses; insists on need for developing an educated and healthy workforce for sustainable economic development; different opinion on NREGA as compared to Jean Dreze and suggests more expenditure on education and skills development then expenditure on employment; favors Kerala's model of human development with substantial spending on education and healthcare over the years and as a result becoming one of the richest Indian state. Read on...
Forbes:
Amartya Sen: 'You need an educated, healthy workforce to sustain economic development'
Author:
Udit Misra
Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 11 jan 2014
Effective norms and guidelines related to corporate governance are essential to ensure accountable and transparent relationship of corporations with their stakeholders and to enhance investor confidence while dealing with entities of capital markets. SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India), the market regulator, is expected to soon come out with detail framework on corporate governance structure with new models related to CEO salaries, succession planning and whistle-blower policy at listed companies. The other issue that might be included considers the number of directorships an individual can hold as an independent director. Currently according to Companies Act a person can be independent director of 10 publicly listed companies. Mr U. K. Sinha, SEBI's current chairman, mentioned that the regulator has kept checks and balances on its search and seizure powers. Read on...
The Hindu:
SEBI to soon come out with norms on corporate governance model
Author:
NA
Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 11 jan 2014
As India's economy continues to grow and expand, the need for energy security becomes a critical component of the overall development policy. Currently most of the fuel is imported from Middle-East and Africa where political instability in some countries is a growing concern. Although India has vast coal reserves and presently uses it as main energy source, but there are issues at the policy level to pursue sufficient mining. Moreover there are environmental concerns related to overuse of coal. India intends to diversify its energy supply by focusing on wind, solar and nuclear sources. But it also has to encourage and expand exploration and production of oil and gas within the country. In last 15 years the investment in exploration has only been US$ 16 billion which is less than half of what Brazil has spent and much less than what India's own companies have invested in foreign exploration activities. Read on...
The Economist:
A price worth paying
Author:
NA
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