'From the investor's point of view, a real change would happen only when business environment in all our states qualitatively improves,' says NITI Aayog Vice-Chairman Rajiv Kumar.
'The attempt to build a negative narrative about India's economic performance is disingenuous.' 'For the investors as well as the targeted beneficiaries of welfare schemes, the ground reality is very different,' argues Rajiv Kumar, vice-chairman, NITI Aayog.
Online companies would look forward to an integrated and uniform approach for tax laws and regulatory policies
As far as India is concerned, the danger is the potential of the IS to create mischief rather than its actual capability as of now, says Rajiv Kumar
The huge increase in WTO membership and the rising share of emerging economies in world trade belie the perception that the WTO exclusively serves the rich countries' interests.
The XIth Plan targets should be recalibrated if the plan is to remain credible.
Nobody can rightly argue that the WTO or the external world is primarily responsible for the woes of our farmers.
Buoyant export demand has been one of drivers of the strong GDP growth in the last three years. Exports have chalked up an impressive growth rate of higher than 21 per cent for the last four years (since 2002-03).