Foundation for Economic Development

Annie George

Annie is a Senior Programme Associate at FED. Her work currently focuses on trade policy reforms aimed at improving Ease of Doing Business. She was previously with the Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP), where her research examined housing prices in India and the impact of policy interventions in the mobile phone manufacturing sector.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, where she received the Rai Sahib Banarsi Das Memorial Prize for curricular and co-curricular initiatives.

Articles

What the PLI scheme needs to succeed

The Indian government launched the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) in 2020, starting with the Large-Scale Electronics Manufacturing Sector. When launched, it was heralded by the