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Ashish Dhawan On ‘Equity’ In Philanthropy | Ep 7 | FED Dialogues

Our guest for this episode of FED Dialogues, a private equity investor turned philanthropist, has a neat analogy for how he looks at philanthropy. He’s done the ‘debt’ part of his philanthropy – set up a world-class university where he can see the impact he’s creating. He’s now looking at more ‘equity’ opportunities in  philanthropy. These […]

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Banmali Agrawala On India’s Electronics Manufacturing Opportunity | Ep 2 | FED Dialogues

India is stepping up its ambitions of gaining global market share in labour-intensive manufacturing. The success we have seen in electronics and smartphone assembly with the production-linked incentive or PLI scheme suggests that electronics manufacturing services (EMS) can be the perfect launchpad for achieving our goal of increasing the share of manufacturing from 13% to 25% […]

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India Needs to Do Much More if it Wants to Become An Electronics Manufacturing Hub

India’s growth in Electronic Manufacturing over the last few years has been remarkable. Since 2015, we have had a 15% annual growth in the Total Electronics and Electricals exports, with growth in Final Goods exports being a whopping 26%. However, in the global scenario, India is still behind by a huge margin. While China’s export […]