Category: Industry Sectors
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Rethinking India’s Growth Model: Should the Next Phase Be Manufacturing-Led?
India’s development trajectory has long puzzled economists because it diverged from the traditional pattern followed by most industrialized nations. Historically, countries moved through a sequence of structural transformation—first agriculture, then manufacturing, and finally services. Nations such as Japan, South Korea, and China followed this path, using manufacturing as the engine…
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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 New Industrial Cold War: How Technology, Tariffs, and Trade Blocs Are Reshaping Global Manufacturing
From Globalization to Strategic Industrial Rivalry For nearly three decades after the end of the Cold War, the world economy moved toward deeper globalization. Manufacturing networks stretched across continents, multinational companies optimized production across borders, and global value chains (GVCs) became the backbone of international trade. Countries specialized in different…
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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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Operational Agility in 2026: Why It Becomes the New Competitive Advantage in an Era of Perpetual Uncertainty
The global manufacturing landscape is entering a period where volatility is not a temporary shock but a structural feature. The last four decades—from the liberalisation-led booms of the 1980s and 1990s to the GVC-driven efficiencies of the 2000s—were built on the assumption that planners could rely on reasonably stable policy…
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The Economic Impact of Escalating Iran–Middle East Tensions
Escalating tensions between Iran, Israel, and the United States as of early 2026 have reactivated one of the most historically persistent fault lines in global economics: the conflict-energy-inflation cycle. Every major Middle Eastern disturbance—from the 1973 Oil Embargo and Iran–Iraq War (1980s) to the 2019 tanker attacks—has triggered systemic economic…
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Vietnam’s Rise as Asia’s Manufacturing Hub: A Historical Shift and a Futuristic Outlook
In the evolving landscape of global production networks, Vietnam’s emergence as a top manufacturing hub in Asia by 2026 marks one of the most significant structural transformations outside China in the past two decades. This transition did not happen overnight—it is the outcome of historical reforms, policy continuity, infrastructure deepening,…
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