The intent of this report is to provide a clear understanding of India as an assessment of a new emerging market where rapid GDP growth has created attractive investment opportunities. The report will be comprised of a general overview of India or region. The political, economic, socio-cultural, and technological influences, benefits, and advantages will be discussed to understand the viability of the nation. Besides this, it will give an overview of the present natural resources and factor endowment that create a competitive advantage for the nation. The key aspect that is important to be discussed while talking about India is the influences of the exchange rates and foreign currency. Moreover, to increase the knowledge regarding the different restrictions and advantages offered by the government of India, the report will provide a brief idea of the countries present trade policies, barriers, incentives, and systems. It will also include the discussion regarding existing foreign direct investment and will provide some of the recommendations for the country to overcome all the barriers in the route of development.
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India is also called as the Republic of India and it is placed in South Asia. In terms of area, India is considered as the seventh largest nation, world’s populous democracy, and second populous nation. The country is bounded by the Bay of Bengal from the Southeast, Indian Ocean from the south and the Arabian Sea from the southwest. Besides this, with Pakistan, it shares land borders to the west, Bhutan, China, and Nepal to the northeast, and Myanmar and Bangladesh from the east. India is the name provided to the huge peninsula, which was thrown out from the Asian continent to the south of the superlative mountain varieties that expanse in a sword like a curve all over the Tibet’s southern border. The shape of the nation is like an irregular quadrilateral, and it is called India (Maps of India, 2018).
In 2017, the economy of India was considered to the sixth largest in terms of nominal GDP and third largest in terms of purchasing power parity in the world. Due to 1991, market based economic restructurings country converted into the fastest developing economies and presented as a lately industrialized nation. However, it endures dealing with the challenges related to corruption, insufficient public healthcare, poverty, and malnutrition. Considering the regional power, and state of nuclear weapons, India possesses the world’s second largest standing army and positioned at a fifth place in the military expenditure between different countries (The World Bank, 2018).
India is the most influential nation in the world. In terms of democracy, it is the largest democracy across the world and possesses a comparatively steady political environment. India’s capital is New Delhi. Two powerful neighbors of the country are Pakistan and China. Other neighboring republics are Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri-Lanka, Myanmar, and Nepal (Adamkasi, 2016).
The key concern area for India is the increasing corruption level. It negatively affects the political as well as business environment, which increase the challenges to the economic growth of the nation. Corruption enhances the business operations cost and frequently influences foreign direct investment. However, increasing government initiatives and public awareness are opposing the corruption challenges.
As per the 2017 economic forecast report of IMF, the GDP of India is valued at $2.4 trillion, which makes it the world’s seventh largest economy in terms of nominal GDP. The Gross Domestic Product of the nation is projected to increase by 7.0% at the end of the financial year 2018 and projected to reach 7.4% financial year 2020. The existing rate of corporate tax in the country is 30%. It is important to consider that the nation experiences recurrent changes in the rates of corporate tax over the years. For instance, in 2010, the tax rate was around 33.99%, whereas it touches a high record of around 38.95% in 2001 (Bhasin, 2018).
India possesses a huge consumer market with an overall population of around 1.2 billion; this reflects an enormous market opportunity for international businesses. This is the reason why numerous numbers of international firms are visiting India for business. Besides this, another reason for the market expansion of international companies in India is the availability of cheap labor and the labor force is probably to touch 160-170 million by 2020 (Adamkasi, 2016).
India is called as a multi-religious, multi-lingual, and multi-ethnic nation. Communal coordination is a strength; though, the nation occasionally experiences pressures in ethnic lines. India possesses the renowned film industry in the world. It is also known for some famous sports such as Hockey and Cricket. Indian Premier League popularly known as IPL entices legends of cricket and attitudes towards India.
India is counted in the list of most technologically advanced nations across the world. In fact, as per the sources, it is the world’s third technologically advanced nation. This is the reason a numerous number of tech giants are interested and investing a huge amount in India such as Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple. India is considered as the main destination for subcontracting labor in Information Technology (Rahman, 2018). With the support of highly talented IT personnel and advanced IT infrastructure, India provides huge opportunities to entrepreneurs to board technical schemes like e-commerce, business solutions, software development and upgrades, mobile apps, etc.
Natural resources are normally determined as things given by nature under, above, and on the earth surface. In these comprehensive sense natural resources comprise, forests, water, and, animals, sources of energy and mineral ores such as uranium, coal, petroleum, and gas, etc. (George and Schillebeeckx, 2018). Some of the natural resources are explained below:
Considering the Indian area, it is positioned at a seventh position across the world with the overall area of 32, 87.263 sq. km. It covers around 2.42% of the overall area of the world. In overall terms, India is actually a huge nation. However, the ratio of land man is not favorable due to the huge size of the population (Chand, 2018).
In 2007, forest in India constituted around 69.09 million hectare that is 21.02% of the overall physical area. From this, around 8.35 million hectares is covered by dense forest, 31.90 million hectare is a discreetly dense forest, and the remaining 28.84 million hectares is covered by open forest.
India has a great quality of iron-ore in great quantity. The nation has haematite of around 14.630 million tonnes and magnetite of over 10,619 million tonnes. Haematite iron is mostly originated in Odisha, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Goa, and Jharkhand (Enarth, Pathak and Shah, 2016).
In India, oil is explored at different locations of Gujarat and Assam. Palliaria, Mourn, Naharkatia, Digboi, Kasimpur, Shivsagar, Badarpur, Rudrapur (in Assam) and Ankaleshwar, Kalol, and Hay of Khambhat (in Gujarat) are the essential locations of oil exploration in the country.
Income growth results in savings, investment, and consumption, however, the growth rates of income, investment, and consumption vary in unstable growth. If the production structure is varied to fill up the experiential gaps, output composition will also alter. This is particularly so in the situations of nations such as India, which allocated essential part to the development of weighty and rudimentary industries of goods to substitute capital goods imports by domestic production to achieve independence. The approach not only increases investment but also fundamentally alter the structure of production which require not just extra capital per unit of output but better and educated accomplished human capital is also essential for manufacturing. Weighty and rudimentary goods are utilized for the investment, which increases the formation of future capital and productive capacity; it quickens industrialization. Income Growth excites investment and savings gradually but progressively, which alleviates the early capital shortage in labor plentiful and capital rare emerging economy and alteration in the structure of production affects trade structure (Prakash and Anand, 2014).
If there is a limited, restriction imposed by the nation on the trade the rate of exchange between two currencies is permitted to regulate freely. In addition, with the more assumption that transportation cost of goods between the nations is zero, then the rate of exchange between both the currencies will imitate the alterations in the level of price in the two nations (Mukher, 2018).
A comparatively higher inflation rate-instigating increase in goods prices in India in comparison to those in the United States of America will create US goods comparatively low-priced and the expensive goods in India. This will aid as an inducement for the Indian firms and individuals to surge their goods imports from the USA (Mukher, 2018)..
This will result in the increase of demand for the US dollars, which shifts the curve of demand towards the right for dollars in the foreign exchange. As shown in the below graph the US dollars demand curve is shifted from DD to D’D’ in the effect of higher inflation rate in India resulting in superior imports by India (Mukher, 2018)..
Source [((Mukher, 2018).]
However, due to the higher price level people from America find that the goods of India are more expensive and as an outcome, it will decrease their level of imports of India products. This will be a reason behind the decline in the goods exports from the country India to the USA, moving the dollars curve of towards left to S’S’ (Mukher, 2018)..
The Foreign currency effects are losses or gains on the international investment because of the alterations in the assets relative value denominated in money other than the major currency with which a company generally practice business. An increasing national currency reflects that the international or foreign investments will consequence in inferior returns when rehabilitated back to the national currency. The conflicting is true for a decreasing national currency (Mukher, 2018)..
Indian EXIM Policy covers numerous decisions related to the policy taken by the administration in the scope of foreign trade that is in relation to the exports and imports from different nations and particularly export promotion procedures, and policies (EXIM Policy, 2018).
It allows exporters to import equipment, machinery, and different capital products for production at limited or free customs duties.
The most general non-tariff barriers are the ban or restrictions on imports upheld by the requirements of import licensing. However, India has eradicated its requirements of import licensing for many of the consumer goods, some products experience some of the barriers related to licensing. For instance, the government of India needs a singular import license for vehicles that are limiting. Import licenses for motorbikes are only offered to foreign nationals enduringly living in India, employed in India for international companies that grasp higher than 30% equity (Export Gov., 2018).
The government of India has augmented the subsidy on the rates of interest charged from small exporters in an alleged interest equalization system. The qualified exporters will be capable to gain credit on rupee export from banks at 5% lower, in comparison to the previous 3% (The Economic Times, 2018b).
Anti-dumping and countervailing procedures are allowable by the agreement of WTO in stated circumstances to defend the national industry from grave damage rising from subsidized or dumped imports. India imposes these measures regularly in order to safeguard national producers from dumping. Execution of India’s anti-dumping program has raised some issues related to transparency and procedures (Helpline Law, 2018).
FDI or Foreign direct investment in India is considered as the key monetary cause for economic development of the country. International businesses capitalize directly in fast developing private businesses of India to grab the advantage of inexpensive wages and altering the environment of business in the nation (Bhasin, 2012).
As per the report of Reserve Bank of India, in 2017-18 Mauritius was founded on the top list as the source of foreign direct investment into India followed by Singapore. The overall FDI in 2018 erected at around $37.36 billion, which was a minimal increase over $36.31 billion documented in the preceding financial year i.e. 2016-17 (India Brand Equity Foundation, 2018). In 2017-18, foreign direct investment from Mauritius was around $13.41 billion in contradiction of $13.38 billion in the preceding year. Foreign Direct Investment from Singapore increases to around $9.27 billion from $6.52 billion in contradiction to $3.23 billion (GK Today, 2018).
The above report has provided a brief overview of India, which is the second largest in the world in terms of population. The GDP growth of the nation has increased the foreign direct investment in different sectors. India has different trade policies that provide relief to different industries in terms of trade. India is abundant in different natural resources such as land, water, crude oil, minerals, etc. Moreover, the stable political situation has supported the government as well as businesses to experience growth in the country. The PESTLE analysis of the country has provided a detailed analysis of the country’s political, economic, technological, as well as the socio-cultural situation. From the analysis, it could be said that the country is enjoying a high level of foreign investment from the multinational firms because there is the availability of cheap labor.
From the above analysis, it has been identified that in India Corporate Taxation is very thick of often-altering rate, cesses, exemptions, surcharges, and deductions. This system is unsteady; it is very tough to execute and to comply. Therefore, it is suggested that the finance minister of the nation need to take some steps towards cutting the basic rate of corporate tax. This will results in increasing money in the taxpayer’s hand, and enables development of the business. The necessities of borrowings will decrease, along with this there will be a decrease in the interest cost and results in increasing profitability. This will report a higher profit for the businesses and increased tax payment.
The makers of policy must create policies where foreign investment could be used for improving national production, exports, and savings; as an intermediate of technology diffusion and technological learning and in offering entry to the external market (Economic Times, 2018a).
Besides this, it is recommended the country’s government must focus towards quick development of the sector of infrastructure, which is very essential for the business activities diversification.
The government must confirm the reasonable dispersal of the inflows of FDI among states. The central administration should provide freedom to different states, such that they can entice inflows of FDI at their own level. The administration must offer extra incentives to the foreign investors in order to capitalize in states where the FDI inflows level is low.
The government must be open the doors for international firms in the export-oriented services that can enhance the unskilled labor and low skilled services demand and also upsurges the level of wages in these services.
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