Other Briefings
India Market Watch: Fewer IT Jobs Created, India’s Realty Sector Leads Emerging Markets
In this week’s Market Watch, we examine the decline in new jobs created in India’s IT sector, impressive global investor confidence in India’s realty sector, and challenges facing fashion and lifestyle retail since demonetization and GST, reflected in sputtering sales.
India Market Watch: Japan Seeks Infra Investments in Northeast, Harvard Says India Fastest Growing Economy
In this week’s Market Watch, we look at improving commercial and economic bilateral ties as Japan seeks greater infrastructure investments in India’s northeast region to improve connectivity, the new data from the EPFO showing significant growth in its subscriber base, and results from Harvard’s latest survey that puts India on the top of the world’s fastest growing economies.
The US – India Economic Relationship
On June 26, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first visit to the White House under Donald Trump’s presidency. In this article, we offer an analysis of the meeting in the wider context of US—India business ties.
India Market Watch: Modi Reaches USA, Chinese and Japanese India-bound Investments Grow
In this week’s Market Watch, we discuss Prime Minister Modi’s trip to the US where key business concerns will dominate his first visit since President Trump took office, the salary trend in Indian companies, and the increase in investments from the Asian powerhouses – China and Japan.
India Market Watch: UNCTAD 2017 Shows Rising Investment Prospects; Indian Internet Users to Double by 2021
In this week’s Market Watch, we cover the UNCTAD ‘World Investment Report 2017’ that highlights the Indian government’s approval for cross-border mergers; the compounded growth in India’s internet user base by 2021, changes in office demand in IT/ITeS sector, and ease of doing business reforms assessment for 2018.
India Market Watch: Overseas Market for Indian Films Grows and IT Sector Lay-offs Lead to Unionization
In this week’s Market Watch, we look at the performance of Indian films in overseas markets, the challenge of local sourcing compliance faced by foreign retailers in India, the huge lay-offs in the IT industry that have promoted increasing labor unionization, and the impact of RERA on realty brokers.
India’s Accession to UN TIR Convention to Boost Foreign Trade
In February, the Union Cabinet approved India’s accession to the Convention on International Transport of Goods under cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention). In this article, we discuss how the Convention might facilitate improved trade linkages via the INSTC, and with the EAEU and neighboring states.
India Market Watch: India’s Attractive Renewables Market, Emergency Response to WannaCry Ransomware Attack
In this week’s Market Watch, we look at India’s renewables market, the huge job cuts anticipated in the IT sector, manufacturing slowdown reflected in the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) data, and India’s response to the global WannaCry ransomware attack.
