India’s share in global manufacturing value grew from about 1.5% in 1995 to only 3.2% in 2023. In contrast, China’s share increased from about 5% to nearly 32% during the same period.
Amber Enterprises climbed as much as 6.6%, its biggest intraday gain since 18 August, while Dixon Technologies India advanced 5.6%. Kaynes Technology India gained as much as 5.2%.
Sales revenue of manufacturing firms saw weak growth in September quarter. Rural demand indicators performed better than urban. Capex must rapidly pick up in 2nd half of the fiscal.
Govt's first advance estimates peg India’s nominal GDP growth at 8.9%, lowest since Covid-hit 2020-21 & lower than 10.5% assumed at start of year. This could put pressure on fiscal deficit target.
June's S&P Global Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index was 57.8, down from May's 58.7 and below Reuters' 58.0 estimate. The index has been above 50 for the last two years
Services' share in India’s GVA increased from 48% to 57% in 8 years without being the primary focus. Imagine what the sector can do if Modi govt sets its eyes on it.
With China's neighbours offering global firms incentives to pull out of the 'factory of the world', India must swiftly integrate with East Asia to emerge as a legitimate alternative.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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