By Salil Mathur (A consultant with IndusGuru) From soya beans to automobiles, from lumber to lobsters and from industries big to small the impact of Trump’s frown on China is only acquiring seismic proportions. India’s windows could be opening in both directions as Global Value Chain (GVC) see disruptions never experienced before. Its possible overflow […]
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By Salil Mathur (A consultant with IndusGuru) As the nation moved closer to the general elections, the economists of political leanings churned out fervent essays, which were largely rhetorical and made little impression or were not even read. Through the 1990s and early 2000s the economists and planners worked strenuously to present Congress as the […]
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The Platform economy is changing the world as we know it. In the first 3 parts of the Platform Wars we discussed the rise of monopolies, emergence of new age disruptors, and the battle for protection of Intellectual Property. The Platform economy is changing the world as we know it. In the last 4 installments […]
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The Platform economy is changing the world as we know it. In the first 3 parts of the Platform Wars we discussed the rise of monopolies, emergence of new age disruptors, and the battle for protection of Intellectual Property. Let us turn to the defining issue of the Platform economy during the last year – […]
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More than half the world’s population, or more than 4 billion people have Internet access in 2018. And we generate 2.5 quintillion (1 with 18 zeros) bytes of data a day! Sharing information across the globe has never been as easy. Hundreds of millions of people around the world, don’t think twice before uploading photographs […]
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The Platform economy is changing the world as we know it. In Part 1, we saw how a clutch of large technology companies have created value at unprecedented pace and scale, by building Platforms that enable consumers and producers to connect seamlessly on a global basis. The dominance of companies like Microsoft and Google in […]
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The Platform economy is all around us, and reflected in the growing dominance of Digital businesses in all spheres of economic activity. In it’s simplest description a Platform business is one which efficiently connects consumers and buyers with sellers of products and services. Nothing new you would say, and a principle that is at the […]
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Security or Flexibility Job Creation is acknowledged to be one of India’s foremost challenges. Even while we are the fastest growing large economy, the spectre of “jobless growth” haunts all discussions and positive sentiment about India’s GDP trajectory and economic future A lot of focus of the job creation debate is around the formal, industrial […]
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It has become clichéd to speak of India as a land of contradictions. Modernity and tradition vie with each other in all spheres of life, in a nation that now the fastest growing large economy in the world, with the youngest demographic. One of the strange contradictions is the huge pool of human capital available […]
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