Business Standard India 2008

India has entered the unfamiliar and exhilarating territory of success, qualified though this success may be. An economic world where India is not a key player is now impossible to imagine. Challenges--olf and new--abound and a lively policy debate is needed to address these and pave the way ahead. Against this backdrop, Business Standard brings to you the first of an annual series, committed to understanding this new India, and contributing to the policy debate. Business Standard India 2008, the inaugural volume, focuses on the sectors that excited the imagination in 2007, and provides a vision for the years ahead. The authors are real-world practitioners who have special insights--economists and administrators, investment bankers and environmentalists, private equity players, industry pioneers and analysts, central bankers and policy wonks--all of them both leaders and insiders, with names that are familiar to a discerning audience. With the benefit of their unique vantage points, they size up the contemporary scene while scanning the horizon.
Contents :
Introduction Section One - The Economy Beyond Grain Security: Agriculture Tomorrow New Issues in Macroeconomic Policy The Infrastructure Challenge The Evolution of Competition Section Two - Companies and Markets Development of Financial Markets Mumbai as an International Financial Centre: The Logic of the MIFC Report Transformation in the Corporate Sector A Paradigm Shift: The Retail Business Into the Big League: Private Equity Succession Planning Under the Banyan Tree The Capital Market Poised for Take-Off: Civil Aviation Section Three - Society Making Business Sense of Corporate Social Responsibility One Earth: A Rights Framework to Climate Change