Best of BS Opinion: Revitalising FDI, the Bangladesh model and more

Here is the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for today

The government of Thailand has announced that four Japanese carmakers intend to invest as much as $4.3 billion in the Southeast Asian nation over the next five years in order to transform it into a hub for manufacturing electric vehicles, including utility vehicles. In this context, our lead editorial notes that from an Indian perspective, the question is whether similar investment is flowing speedily and reliably enough into India’s own automotive sector. Read here

Even as East Asian regionalism gives some hope, 2023 ends with growing apprehensions of it being overwhelmed by the increasingly protectionist unilateralism in the other regions, writes Amita Batra Read here

The implementation of storage for India’s green transition is emerging as the new challenge for the renewables vision, writes Vinayak Chatterjee

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“Global growth is faltering under the impact of tightening financial conditions, geopolitical tensions and geoeconomic fragmentation.”

 

Report on Trend and Progress of Banking in India by the Reserve Bank of India