How to Measure Sustainability
The earth’s risk profile is changing. Global warming / Climate change is now a recognized real risk to human welfare. The world has taken cognizance of this risk.
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GCCs can help build resilience against uncertainty
The world is currently going through VUCA conditions – volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. Multiple headwinds buffet the world and create unprecedented and unforeseen turbulence.
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Reimagining GCCs: Building India’s Resilience against Tariffs and Layoffs
India is facing a dual disruption: exporters struggling under steep tariffs and IT professionals experiencing layoffs despite record industry profits. Though from different worlds, both share a common thread, job insecurity that threatens India’s export revenues and skilled workforce.
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Unlocking the Potential of FPOs to Achieve Food & Fibre Security for India
India’s journey toward food and fibre security is at a critical juncture. With over 6.5 million cotton farmers and millions more engaged in food crops, the stakes have never been higher. Climate change, volatile global trade, and policy gaps are converging to create uncertainty for both farmers and industry.
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When dependency becomes vulnerability
Trump’s 50 percent tariff (basic 25% plus additional 25%) on Indian exports to the US has generated panic not only within the government circles but also in labour intensive export sectors like textiles, gem and jewelry, leather goods and marine products.
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Trump threatens India with punitive tariff for buying Russian oil
India is facing a double whammy from the US President Donald Trump despite the fact that the two countries are currently negotiating a bilateral trade agreement intended to achieve ambitious outcomes.
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Unilateral Tariff Imposition of 25% by President Donald Trump, USA
IMC-ERTF a quick research response has made a brief preliminary observation of the Unilateral and additional Ad Valorem Tariff Duty @ 25% form 1st Aug’25. This measure additionally compounded by penalty rates for trading with other countries.
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India should tie up with the US for critical minerals
The proposed India-USA Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) is still under intense negotiation. While, it is widely believed the US is keen to open up India’s farm sector (soybean cotton, corn, chicken legs, animal welfare products), India can attempt to soften the US’ aggressive stand by offering critical minerals the US desperately needs.
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For Vietnam, India can be a reliable partner
At the recently concluded Asia Agri Food Conference in Ho Chi Min City, several ideas to cement India Vietnam partnership in the area of agriculture and agribusiness came to the fore.
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India’s steel sector: are we ready for the big leap?
Steel is a critical industrial metal for growth and development of several sectors including infrastructure, construction, defense, mobility and so on. No wonder, there is a strong positive correlation between economic growth and steel consumption. For this reason, steel is called a ‘growth commodity’.
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Modernizing-cotton cultivation through tech infusion is imperative
Cotton is an important cash crop for our country. It is not merely an agricultural crop but an industrial commodity too as it has multiple uses, food and non-food. Cotton represents 5F – Fibre, Food, Feed, Fuel and Fertilizer. In other words, cotton economy is a composite economy and critical for India as it helps generate employment, incomes and export earnings.
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Contours of India UK FTA set to boost economic opportunities
After over three years of negotiations that began in January 2022, the India-UK Free Trade Agreement (FTA) was recently concluded and formally announced on May 6, 2025. Yet, there is a road ahead to traverse for cementing the partnership.
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USA – India BTA and scenario of possible outcomes
The US faces the problem of ‘twin deficit’ that is fiscal deficit and trade deficit. The policy of free trade or liberal import – intended to support consumers – has resulted in trade deficit.
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The Present and Future of AI
Have you heard of Gemma 3, Sec- Gemini v1, DeepSeek, Gemini 2.0, etc.? Don’t worry because more 95% of the people around you have not heard of about these AI models, let alone know anything about them.
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Trump, Tariffs, Tradewar and Turmoil
The much-awaited US reciprocal tariffs announced on April 2 have jolted the world with a few countries in Asia becoming the target of Trump ire (China, Vietnam, Thailand) while the blow to India is relatively less-heavy.
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The Allure of Glittering Gold
Background: In pursuance of the decision to run blogs on topical subjects, ERTF chose Gold Market as the subject that could potentially elicit interesting yet different shades of opinion from domain experts.
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