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Presentation at the India-ASEAN Engineering Partnership Summit organised by EEPC on 24th August, 2021. Session on “India’s “Act East” Policy and its Implications on the Regional Manufacturing Activities and Future Growth Potential between India and ASEAN”
The Union Budget of 2021-2022 has introduced many schemes. In this blog, I examine these policies in terms of horizontal, vertical, or GVC oriented. GVC oriented policies are those “industrial policies that leverage international supply chain linkages or dynamics to improve a country’s role in global or regional value chains” (Gereffi and Sturgeon, 2013). Gereffi […]
The Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme was announced for pharmaceuticals and medical devices in March 2020, and notified in July 2020 for mobile and allied equipment. The scheme has received the green signal from the Union Cabinet (PIB, 2020). Subsequently, ten sectors have been identified for the scheme; these are advance chemistry cell (ACC) batteries, electronic/technology […]
Saon Ray, senior fellow at ICRIER, commented on the NDA government’s decision in recent years to hike import tariffs on many goods. She pointed out that many imports are actually intermediate goods which are then used in manufacture and export of finished products. An increase in tariff on such goods would hurt Indian’s competitiveness, she […]