07 GUEST COLUMN India’s medical tourism edge by Bhavdeep Singh, Fortis Healthcare 22 INTERVIEW Make in India has opened doors for companies Alok Shrivastava, Gionee India 62 STATE FOCUS Investing in Andhra a win-win by Chandrababu Naidu, Chief Minister 38 CSR FOCUS Prince Charles backs new education bond for India Hospital to the World Published by November 2017 EDITOR’S NOTE he last few weeks have brought some cheer for those Ttracking the investment climate in India. Credit rating firm Moody’s upgraded India’s sovereign India Investment Journal is published rating by one notch, a move seen as a clear endorsement of by India Inc. the economic reform agenda underway in the country. A key plank of this agenda has been the ambition to improve the ease of doing business in the country, which also received a major boost with India moving into the top 100 in the World TEAM Bank’s ‘Doing Business 2018: Reforming to Create Jobs’ Chief Executive report. This marked a convincing jump of 30 spots from last year’s rank of 130th to this year’s 100th. The report notes that Manoj Ladwa India has adopted 37 reforms since 2003 and nearly half of
[email protected] these reforms have been implemented in the last four years. There was more good news in store as the country moved Editor up in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) GDP per capita index. India saw its per capita GDP rise to $7,170 in 2017, Aditi Khanna up from $6,690 in 2016, improving its rank by one position to
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