Category: Indian economy
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The Middle Power Bridge: India Linking the Global South with the Industrialized World
Historical Context and Strategic Positioning India’s role as a bridge between the Global South and developed economies is rooted in both its history and its evolving economic and geopolitical position. Since the era of the Non-Aligned Movement, India has attempted to maintain strategic autonomy while advocating for the interests of…
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From Factory Floors to Smart Ecosystems: How AI and Automation Are Redefining Manufacturing Competitiveness
The Evolution of Manufacturing: From Labour Advantage to Intelligence Advantage For more than two centuries, manufacturing competitiveness has evolved through distinct phases. The early industrial revolution was powered by mechanisation and steam engines, the twentieth century by mass production and global supply chains, and the late twentieth century by labour-cost…
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The End of Cheap Globalisation: How Regional Supply Chains Are Redrawing the Industrial Map
From Hyper-Globalisation to Strategic Fragmentation For nearly three decades after the end of the Cold War, the world experienced an era often described as “cheap globalisation.” Production networks stretched across continents, trade barriers gradually declined, and multinational corporations built complex global value chains optimized primarily for cost efficiency. Manufacturing was…
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India’s Emerging Chemical Parks: Reimagining Industrial Policy for a Fragmented Global Future
A New Industrial Frontier: Historical Perspective and Policy Shift India’s newly proposed chemical parks scheme marks a decisive shift in the country’s industrial policy—one that blends lessons from past attempts with a clearer understanding of global competitiveness. Historically, large industrial parks such as the PPI RCC initiative aimed for scale…
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Digital Innovation & Rural Industrial Cluster – Lessons from the ITC Cluster (Slovenia/Europe)
The evolution of Digital Innovation in Rural Industrial Clusters has become a defining feature of Europe’s emerging development narrative, and the Innovation Technology Cluster (ITC) of Slovenia stands at the centre of this transformation. To understand its significance, we must trace the arc from Europe’s post-industrial rural decline to today’s…
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Trade Realignment and India’s Strategic Window: Scale Is Not Strategy
For three decades, global trade expanded under the logic of efficiency. Production concentrated where costs were lowest, logistics were predictable, and geopolitics appeared stable. The rise of global value chains made East Asia—particularly China—the manufacturing anchor of the world. But the shocks of the past decade—trade wars, pandemic disruptions, technology…
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AI and India’s Next Growth Curve: Why the Next Five Years Will Redefine the GDP Trajectory
By 2026, the global economy has reached an inflection point where AI is no longer a competitive advantage—it’s the baseline for competitiveness. Countries that embed AI into production, governance, and services will outpace those that lag. As the world recalibrates supply chains, labour markets, and digital governance around AI, GDP…
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A World Becoming Smaller—But Not Closer
Over the past four decades, the world has become smaller in terms of communication, transportation, and information exchange. Digital platforms compress distances; logistics networks deliver goods overnight; and technologies such as AI and blockchain make cross-border collaboration seamless. However, paradoxically, global trade is becoming more distant, fragmented, and politically conditioned.…
