Business & Finance

Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 19 feb 2014

Indian Brand Equity Foundation (IBEF) on their website mentions that according to Frost & Sullivan, Indian healthcare industry (hospitals, medical infrastructure, medical devices, clinical trials, outsourcing, telemedicine, health insurance and medical equipment) is expected to grow to US$ 160 billion by 2017 from US$ 79 billion in 2012. As the demand for quality healthcare grows, private equity funds are raising capital to invest in Indian healthcare companies. Bain & Co. report says that US$ 1.3 billion of risk capital was invested in healthcare businesses in 2012. Moreover according to Venture Intelligence there were 25 deals totaling US$ 351.5 million in the first half of 2013. Read on...

The Economic Times: Private Equity ups investment spend in India's Healthcare sector
Author: Biswarup Gooptu

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 11 jan 2014

Effective norms and guidelines related to corporate governance are essential to ensure accountable and transparent relationship of corporations with their stakeholders and to enhance investor confidence while dealing with entities of capital markets. SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India), the market regulator, is expected to soon come out with detail framework on corporate governance structure with new models related to CEO salaries, succession planning and whistle-blower policy at listed companies. The other issue that might be included considers the number of directorships an individual can hold as an independent director. Currently according to Companies Act a person can be independent director of 10 publicly listed companies. Mr U. K. Sinha, SEBI's current chairman, mentioned that the regulator has kept checks and balances on its search and seizure powers. Read on...

The Hindu: SEBI to soon come out with norms on corporate governance model
Author: NA

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 11 jan 2014

As India's economy continues to grow and expand, the need for energy security becomes a critical component of the overall development policy. Currently most of the fuel is imported from Middle-East and Africa where political instability in some countries is a growing concern. Although India has vast coal reserves and presently uses it as main energy source, but there are issues at the policy level to pursue sufficient mining. Moreover there are environmental concerns related to overuse of coal. India intends to diversify its energy supply by focusing on wind, solar and nuclear sources. But it also has to encourage and expand exploration and production of oil and gas within the country. In last 15 years the investment in exploration has only been US$ 16 billion which is less than half of what Brazil has spent and much less than what India's own companies have invested in foreign exploration activities. Read on...

The Economist: A price worth paying
Author: NA

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 04 jan 2014

Architects play an important role in building and developing both personal and public infrastructure and participate in the growth of nations. India is undergoing rapid urbanization and it is critical for the government and private sector to plan, facilitate and manage it with collaborative and converged approach. India's 1500 architects recently came together at IIA's (The Indian Institute of Architects) National Convention 2013 to discuss and consider various aspects and issues facing architecture including urbanization, sustainability and innovation. The convention concluded with recommendations called 'Chennai Charter' - To work for the establishment of Ministry of Architecture, Regional and Urban Planning' & Public Architecture Department, both at national and state level; Based on provisions of the Architect Act (1972) promote employment of architects in government projects; Formation of agricultural university at location where sufficient architecture schools/colleges are present. Read on...

The Hindu: Building the future
Author: Hema Vijay

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 26 dec 2013

Consumer spending is an important indicator to gauge the market conditions and economic activity. It is proportional to the disposable income of consumers. Current state of Indian economy shows less consumer confidence resulting in sluggish consumption activity. Article provides detailed analysis of the Indian consumer and how the various segments of the consumers and their spending patterns will affect the economy in near and distant future. The top 20% of Indian households by income, account for 40-50% of total household consumption and 40-60% of household income. This segment (50 million households, 45% of urban India & 10% of rural and per capita GDP of US$ 4000) is divided equally between urban and rural households, with 1/3rd of rural and half of urban having a salaried primary wage earner with stable and predictable income. This 'Top 20' segment holds the key to the Indian consumption scenario in 2014. Moreover marketers also have to play their role confidently in attracting investments from this group. The other two segments, 'The Next 40' (40% with per capita GDP of almost US$ 1000, account for 40% of consumption expenditure and are 2/3rd rural & 1/3rd urban) and 'The Bottom 40' (1/3rd urban poor and 2/3rd rural), have challenging prospects and less potential to make significant impact on improving the consumption activity. 'The Next 40' due to budgetary constraints and 'The Bottom 40' due to their dependence on welfare schemes and insignificant disposable income. Read on...

Live Mint: The future of Indian consumer markets
Author: Rama Bijapurkar

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 21 nov 2013

Sometimes back companies like Yahoo and HP, decided to discourage and reduce flexible working for their employees. But according to a recent report by workplace provider Regus, 75% of Indian respondents feel that flexible working is a critical measure of achieving higher productivity. 77% believe that it encourages greater sense of responsibility and time management and similar percentage said that it fosters greater creativity. Read on...

The Economic Times: Flexible working arrangements boost productivity: Survey
Author: NA

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 20 nov 2013

Most responsible companies around the world are taking diversity initiatives to build an inclusive business ecosystem - management, employees, suppliers, partners, etc - with representation from minority communities, women, people with disabilities etc. Similar initiative is underway in India where 6 big multinational corporations - Accenture, Intel, Marriott, HP, Wal-Mart and IBM - have come together to interact with 100 women owned and operated businesses. This was organized by a non-profit WEConnect International and supported by Times Foundation. The program is directed towards encouraging these corporations to procure a share of their products and services from women-run businesses. According to CEO of WEConnect International, Elizabeth Vazquez, "Women make 70% of the purchasing decisions at home. Yet, women entrepreneurs get only 1% of the global procurement business. They are missing in the supply chain." Read on...

The Times of India: Big companies look to buy from women entrepreneurs
Authors: Anshul Dhamija, Shilpa Phadnis

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 15 nov 2013

According to KPMG's '2013 Global Technology Innovation' survey of 811 business executives from technology industry, India is ranked third after US and China. India was ranked first in the technology confidence innovation index followed by Israel, US and China. Survey mentions cloud computing (with government as the main driver) and mobile (currently 800 million subscribers) as the two most important disruptive technologies that will dominate the Indian market for next three years. Development of biometrics and data & analytics technologies will also gain momentum. Read on...

bdnews24: India third in technology innovation survey
Author: NA

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 09 nov 2013

Technologies are faciliating social pervasiveness of mobile phones, electronic and social media and are empowering common people to have their say in various national and international issues and provides them opportunities to participate in political, social and economic processes. According to Professor Vivek Wadhva of Singularity University, as poor gain access to internet through tablets and smart phones and the middle class gets better connectivity India will witness a revolution in commerce, education and social values. He says that advancement in tablet technology with reduced prices coupled with cheaper and wider availability of internet provides the necessary tools for the large Indian population to not only have social interactions and community connectedness but also avail benefits through access to ecommerce and online shopping, education through available online courses from around the world (MOOCs) and media and entertainment through quality global and local digital content online. Read on...

The Times of India: Affordable tablets will give the poor a voice
Author: Vivek Wadhwa

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Mohammad Anas Wahaj | 30 oct 2013

E-Commerce is growing in India and in future there are possibilities of substantial contribution to it through mobile transactions. According to a management consulting firm, e-commerce is expected to grow from US$ 6.3 billion in 2011 to US$ 23 billion. With 900 million mobile phone subscribers, India is the world's second largest mobile market after China. In another report by a consulting firm, Internet users will increase from 125 million (45% of which are mobile-based internet users) in 2011 to 330 million in 2016. Professor Kartik Hosanagar of the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania points out that mobile is the key to the growth of e-commerce in India as traditional e-commerce's reach is limited with substantial percentage of internet access through mobile only. Similar sentiments are shared by industry leaders and experts. Moreover Prof. Hosanagar also mentions the challenges mobile e-commerce might face due to small screen size of mobiles. He views education and healthcare areas to benefit the most through mobile internet in India. Read on...

Little India: Mobile's Dramatic Growth in India Spurs a New Era of E-Commerce
Author: NA

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