Desai Diaries

In 1978, a new development approach was introduced by Deng Xiaoping in China. A centrally planned, public-sector oriented and inward-looking economy was transformed to one that relied on attractingforeign corporate investors, promoting local private ....Read More

My column last month focused on the international governance of the internet. This month, I turn to the national strategy in India for future information technology (IT) development. Over the past three-plus decades, the most significant substantiv....Read More

In my last month’s column, I had focused on the rising threat of climate change and the serious shortfalls in the promise of commitments under the Paris Agreement of 2015. I had argued for an acceleration of commitments, particularly by d....Read More

In November this year, the 30th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place in Belem, in the Amazonian part of Brazil. The UN Climate Convention is crucial....Read More

The entrepreneurship that India requires must have two key characteristics. First, it must be willing to be innovative in the sense that it takes on new products and processes as part of its business. Second, it must be global in its marketing ....Read More

Reviving manufacturing growth: Balancing govt and corporation roles By Nitin Desai Ensuring manufacturing growth consistent with our development aims requires the government becoming less entrepreneurial and the corporations becoming much more entr....Read More