07 Jan 2022 India’s external sector displayed a strong performance in 2020-21. During April-December of 2021, India’s exports stood at around US$ 299.74 billion, bringing India rather close to the export target of US$ 400 by 2022. Given the propensity of exports to drive growth and create jobs, it is critical…
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The CII Partnership Summit 2021- A Global Platform
27 Dec 2021 As the world bounces back from the effects of the pandemic, there is a need of concerted, combined and coordinated efforts towards ensuring sustainable single-speed recovery, while addressing rising challenges of inequality, climate change, and technology advance & adaptation. CII, in collaboration with the Department for Promotion…
CII Partnership Summit 2021- A Dialogue on Focused Tracks for a New World
10 Dec 2021 The CII Partnership Summit 2021 is an opportune platform to capture ideas and perspectives and to consolidate partnerships for meeting global challenges and ensuring a collaborative approach to achieving global goals. The Summit, to be organized from 12th-15th December 2021, will bring together government leaders, industry, experts and…
The FTA Route to Enhancing Exports
25 Sep 2021 Free trade agreements (FTAs) are an effective way for a country to increase its exports and step up engagement in global value chains. Free trade agreements of India with other countries and with its regional partners are many, and today, FTA negotiations have commenced with many more…
Improving the economic game
23 Sep 2021 The Quad (Australia, Japan, India and the U.S.) meets in a landmark physical summit this week. The agenda for the Quad has widened — till now, it was largely focused on strengthening strategic and defence pillars. This should now bring industry into the dialogue process to advance…
India-Africa: Harnessing the Africa-India opportunity
26 Jul 2021 Opportunities for India-Africa in the changing global architecture The pandemic has visibly disrupted the international economic architecture, creating in its wake a multipolar world, where a greater number of countries play an instrumental role in determining world trade patterns, investment flows and development cooperation. The changing global…
Select Indo-Pacific Business Summit Indo-Pacific Business Summit
02 Jul 2021 The concept of an Indo-Pacific construct gained currency around 2010, in response to a growing and urgent recognition of the requirement for a collaboration of nations — around the Indian and Pacific oceans — to ensure cooperation between countries on matters of economy and regional security. Since…
Bolstering India-UK Bilateral Ties
27 Apr 2021 The forthcoming visit of the UK Prime Minister Mr. Boris Johnson to India was set to give a renewed thrust to India-UK bilateral ties; however, the visit, scheduled for end April, was called off for the time being due to the COVID situation. As earlier planned, the…
Curbing Inflation: Uzbekistan’s Approach
22 Apr 2021 Inflation in Uzbekistan was historically relatively high, and in recent years there has been a further acceleration of inflation in effect of structural reforms in the economy, liberalization of regulated prices, changes in tax policy and rising incomes. This raised the issue of reducing inflation in order to ensure…
The Partnership Summit 2020 Report: A Useful Guide for Future Policymaking
23 Mar 2021 The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), in collaboration with the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, held the largest ever Partnership Summit over a virtual platform during 15-18 December 2020. The Partnership Summit, CII’s annual flagship international event, provides…