For many sectors of the economy, awareness is not nearly as important as the ease of doing business. But for start-ups, the awareness element is sorely lacking. In this case, awareness is actually progress.

The concept of devolving power to India’s states as “laboratories for reform” has re-emerged as a fashionable theory for speeding up economic development in India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi regularly touches on the twin theories of “competitive...

The U.S.-India economic partnership has yet to see the same momentum as our bilateral security relationship. Beyond a vaguely-defined trade target and establishment of the first-ever U.S.-India Strategic and Commercial Dialogue, economic cooperation continues to be stuck on...

For years, India-watchers have by equal measure championed the nation’s future role as the next regional if not global power and bemoaned its failure to live up to its strategic potential.

Following the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) loss in the Bihar state assembly election, the world began to wonder what impact these results might have on the Narendra Modi government’s interest and ability to enact economic reforms. Separately, there had been an...

This paper summarizes the discussion and recommendations arising out of a workshop organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) in Honolulu, Hawaii, on June 27, 2015.

There is increasing need for the United States to sign a high-standard BIT with India. However, there have been several setbacks, most notably the individual reviews of each government's model text. In late August, the Law Commission of India recommended several changes to...

The U.S. Census Bureau recently released data on the U.S.-India goods trade. The trend of reducing trade deficit with India has continued. The moderating trade balance does, however, undermine the "Make in India" campaign; this highlights the good and bad news of...

India's Parliament convenes on July 21 and two big reforms are on the table. The first will create a "Goods and Services Tax" and the second will relax the rules on land acquisition. The ruling BJP party remains weak in the upper house of Parliament, questioning...

India’s Ministry of Commerce and Industry recently released its country-by-country trade data for fiscal year 2015. Alarmingly, the nation’s trade deficit with China has spiked by 34 percent to $48.5 billion—nearly 3 percent of the nation’s GDP.

At the time of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) victory in the April-May 2014 Lok Sabha election, we had pointed out that there would be powerful ...