India is projected to be the one of the fastest growing economies in the world which is in line with India’s ambitions of becoming a $5 trillion economy in the next few years. 虽然新冠疫情减缓了印度的增长速度, just like the rest of the world, it did cause businesses to focus on supply chain resilience and create opportunities for India to become a global manufacturing hub.
According to Global Ratings Agency Fitch, GDP growth rate will remain robust at 7.8 per cent in FY23 compared to 3.4 per cent across the globe.
Not just that, over the last decade or so, India has emerged as an entrepreneurial hub; technology, e-commerce, and financial services have accounted for the bulk of the money flow.
INDIA AS A GLOBAL MANUFACTURING HUB
尽管2022年全球逆风和供应链受阻, India’s manufacturing sector has shown sustained growth momentum this year. India has emerged as the second most sought after manufacturing hub across the world, 归因于印度经营环境的改善, cost competitiveness, low labour cost, significant talent pool and success in meeting outsourcing requirements, taking it one step closer to China in becoming a global preferred manufacturing hub.
Opportunities for the manufacturing sector in India are immense, especially since a number of key initiatives have been taken by the government in the last year.
The government’s flagship programmes such as Make in India and the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme have benefitted the sector as well as the government’s commitment to a planned expenditure of INR 2.75 lakh crore for manufacturing.
High quality infrastructure is imperative to promote supply chain efficiency for manufacturing. The government is working on the National Infrastructure Pipeline scheme for rapid infrastructure growth with a $1.4 trillion outlay for roads, railways ports, airports and industrial corridors. Another such example is the National Industrial Corridor Development Programme (NICDP) to provide multi-modal connectivity for cities.
India has streamlined its tax systems like the Good and Services Tax (GST) and Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), brought several reforms to its labour laws to assist India in becoming a manufacturing hub.
部门重点农业:数百万人的生计来源
India’s agriculture sector, worth US$370 billion, continues to remain the main source of livelihood for over 40 per cent of the population and contributes 19.9 per cent (FY 2021) to the national GDP. However, the sector needs structural changes to increase growth and productivity aided by technology-based modernisation – which means that agritech has a great role to play to plug supply chain inefficiencies, 缺乏基础设施，数字采用率低. Several recent reports peg India’s agritech market to reach at potential of $24bn to $35 bn by 2025.
Overall, the agritech ecosystem has attracted a surge of startups in India offering technology-based solutions for the entire agricultural value chain, from storage and transportation services, crops and seeds, to farm technology. India currently has over 1300 agriculture startups to increase efficiency and productivity in the sector.
INVESTORS BULLISH ON FOODTECH
The FoodTech market in India has experienced remarkable growth in the last few years and investors are bullish. The sector can be mainly categorised into two segments – the online food delivery business and the online grocery market. 这两个部分在大流行期间和大流行后都出现了快速增长. 快速的城市化推动了该行业的增长, the rise in the working-class urban youth, 越来越多地采用智能手机和技术, and high internet penetration.
India is expected to be the third-largest consumer market by 200. While the online food business is expected to clock $15 billion in gross value by 2025.
THE RISE OF THE FINTECH SECTOR IN INDIA
India’s FinTech sector is the third largest in the world, behind the US and China. India has the highest adoption rate for FinTech in the world at 87%. 这个行业的增长潜力是巨大的. India’s FinTech has grown to cover sectors from traditional banking, insurance, retail, to paperless lending, mobile banking, secure payment gateways, mobile wallets.
India's payments infrastructure has seen substantial improvements recently with the introduction of new payment mechanisms such as Immediate Payments Service (IMPS), Unified Payments Interface (UPI), Bharat Interface for Money (BHIM), and others. The government's "Make in India" and "Digital India" projects have also played a significant role in the rise of FinTech as has the rise of innovation driven FinTech startups, widespread mobile and internet penetration, and a young population.
THE INDIA-CHINA STORY
世界正在关注“中国加一”政策. 500 million Indians will enter the middle class over the next decade, this will be the largest growth of the middle class anywhere in the world fuelling massive domestic demand and purchasing power. India is giving generous subsidies to several sunrise sectors such as FinTech, EduTech, Healthcare, Green Technology adoption, 农业和制造业以及能源部门. India plans to build robust supply chains globally and also build massive infrastructure capacity through planned expenditure to fuel this growth, making sure that foreign capital is looking at India as investment destination at par with China.
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