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New working paper authored by former CEA Arvind Subramanian and others finds Indian firms increasingly prefer multiple plants in a single state rather than scaling up single plants.
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This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
Large plants risk being targetted politically for not adhereing to Hindutva agenda or for not adhereing to leftist labour laws. Twitter called boycott of products is a crazy phenomenon in our country.
It is not about ineffeciency. It is about reliability. This is what happens when people who have never started or run a business are intellectuals writing on business. Smaller multiple factories means if something happens in a city due to politics of DMK, TMC or CPI the overal production does not suffer. Also larger factories means India’s communist labor laws will prevent any progress. Smaller is better
Akhil deliberately confuses India with Pakistan where Srilankan managers are burnt for blasphemy
Large plants risk being targetted politically for not adhereing to Hindutva agenda or for not adhereing to leftist labour laws. Twitter called boycott of products is a crazy phenomenon in our country.
Makes sense distribution of political and labour risk
It is not about ineffeciency. It is about reliability. This is what happens when people who have never started or run a business are intellectuals writing on business. Smaller multiple factories means if something happens in a city due to politics of DMK, TMC or CPI the overal production does not suffer. Also larger factories means India’s communist labor laws will prevent any progress. Smaller is better