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India gets top rating for prudent financial market norms
LONDON: India today got top-most ratings, along with nine other countries, for a robust financial market regulatory framework in compliance with the global benchmarks.


Overall, the regulatory regime put in place by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) have got better ratings than their counterparts in various countries including the US.

As per the latest update to the 'global assessment study' of the regulatory framework for financial market infrastructure, a total of 10 jurisdictions including India have managed to secure the maximum score of '4' on a scale of one to four on all eight parameters. :yahoo:

These jurisdictions include Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Russia, Singapore and Switzerland.

'Rating Level 4' indicates that RBI and Sebi have all regulatory measures "fully in force".

This is based on assessment studies about implementation status of the international Principles for Financial Market Infrastructure (PFMIs) in various countries.
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) came out with the PFMIs in 2012.

The IOSCO and BIS today released the third update of its Level 1 assessment of various jurisdictions.

The US, the UK, Mexico and Turkey are among the jurisdictions that are yet to achieve full rating across all the eight parameters.

Regulations for central counter-parties, trade repositories, payment systems, central securities depositories and securities settlement systems were taken as parameters for the assessment.

"Overall, the third update to the Level 1 assessments shows that participating jurisdictions have continued to make progress since the previous update in completing the process of adopting legislation, regulations and/or policies that will enable them to implement the PFMI," the assessment report said.

IOSCO is a global grouping of capital markets regulators in different countries, including Sebi, while BIS is known as the central bank for all central banks across the world.

In Level-1, it is being assessed whether jurisdictions have completed the process of adopting the legislation, regulations and other policies that will enable them to implement the principles and responsibilities. The latest report looks into the status of each jurisdiction's legal, regulatory or policy frameworks as on January 8 this year.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...nancial-market-norms/articleshow/52960440.cms
 
India jumps 19 places in World Bank’s logistics performance index
India’s logistics performance at its key international gateways has improved in the last two years, according to a World Bank report released on Tuesday.

In the World Bank’s biennial measure of international supply chain efficiency, called Logistics Performance Index, India’s ranking has jumped from 54 in 2014 to 35 in 2016.

While Germany tops the 2016 rankings, India is ahead of comparatively advanced economies like Portugal and New Zealand. In 2016, India’s international supply chain efficiency was at 75% of top-ranked Germany, said the report titled Connecting to Compete: 2016 Trade Logistics in the Global Economy. This is an improvement over the 66% efficiency when compared to the leader (again Germany) in 2014.

Better performance in logistics will not only boost programmes, such as Make in India, by enabling India to become part of the global supply chain, it can also help increase trade. In 2015-16, India’s foreign trade shrank by around 15%.

The Logistics Performance Index analyses countries across six components: efficiency of customs and border management clearance, quality of trade and transport infrastructure, ease of arranging competitively priced shipments, competence and quality of logistics services, ability to track and trace consignments, and the frequency with which shipments reach consignees within scheduled or expected delivery times.

It is computed from the survey responses of about 1,051 logistics industry professionals.

Programmes, such as Make in India, and improvements in infrastructure have helped India improve its logistical performance, said Arvind Mahajan, partner and national head (energy, infrastructure and government) at KPMG India, a consultancy. He also said that the emergence of skilled professionals and technological improvements that have enabled services such as track-and-tracing have helped India close the gap with leaders.

That said, Logistics Performance Index does not address how easy or difficult it is to move goods to the hinterland. For that, World Bank has another measure—a domestic LPI which analyzes a country’s performance over four factors: infrastructure, services, border procedures and supply chain reliability.

While not all yardsticks are comparable across countries, there are some which show that India still has some way to go.

For instance, only 69% of shipments from India meet the quality criteria, compared to 72% for China and 77% for Kenya. On the other hand, it takes two and three days to clear shipments, without and with inspection, respectively—numbers comparable to China but longer than what it takes in top-ranked Germany.

Similarly, India has an average of 5 forms required for import or export, compared to 4.5 for China and 2 for Germany.

In this regard, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) has the potential to revolutionize the transport industry in India, said Capt. Uday Palsule, former managing director of Spear Logistics Pvt. Ltd. “Inter-state travel time will be drastically reduced if the hurdle of checking documents at every state border is done away with,” he said. It will also help boost the returns of the trucking industry and feed into better performance of the logistics sector, added Palsule
http://www.livemint.com/Politics/aq...ces-in-World-Banks-logistics-performance.html
 
IKEA to hire 15,000 to set up 25 stores

In one of the biggest hiring exercises by a foreign firm in the country, the world’s largest furniture retailer IKEA is going to hire 15,000 people to run the 25 stores it plans to open. The Swedish chain is also looking at hiring the services of 37,500 more people indirectly to assist in running its stores. “Each store would employ 500 to 600 workers and indirectly provide job opportunities for 1,500 people.

http://www.business-standard.com/ar...5-000-to-set-up-25-stores-116062900397_1.html
 
PM Modi Lands A Record $1 Billion Loan From World Bank For This Pet Cause

New Delhi: The World Bank on Thursday said it would lend India more than $1 billion for its huge solar energy programme, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi sought climate change funds from its visiting head.

PM Modi is banking on India's 300 days a year of sunshine to generate power and help fight climate change, rather than committing to emission cuts like China.

The World Bank loan is the organization's biggest solar aid for any country and comes as India has set a goal of raising its solar capacity nearly 30 times to 100 gigawatts by 2020 and is attracting mega investment proposals from top companies and institutions.

"Prime Minister Modi's personal commitment toward renewable energy, particularly solar, is the driving force behind these investments," World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said in a statement released after he met the PM.

India is the largest client of the World Bank, which lent it around $4.8 billion between 2015 and 2016.

India wants the share of non-fossil fuel in total installed power capacity to jump to 40 percent by 2030 from 30 percent currently, but there are challenges including weak finances of state distribution companies forced to sell subsidised power, difficulties hooking up solar projects to grids, and access to affordable capital.

Still India reckons its renewable energy industry could generate business opportunities worth $160 billion this decade, making it a lucrative market that has already attracted big global players such as Japan's Softbank Corp and Taiwan's Foxconn.

http://profit.ndtv.com/news/industr...an-from-world-bank-for-this-pet-cause-1426474
 

V. good first steps although these are not irrigation canals but swale-like structures to stop run off in order to recharge ground water while preventing soil erosion.

Needs to replicated throughout the drought prone areas!


Here is another very nice article that elucidates in very simple steps what Modi can do specifically for farmers and India's long term food security interests. Mirrors my own views on what government at the center can do something so simple that will transform the lives of farmers for ever!

If he does just these 3 things listed out in the article and NOTHING else, he will still have my vote forever!

http://indianexpress.com/article/in...ings-government-can-do-for-agriculture-today/
 
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Capacity addition is much welcome and needed and govt has done a great job so far under Mr. Goyal.

HOWEVER, now the bigger more important focus now should be on improving discoms and making sure UDAY is a success nationally. Rajasthan style debt auction system should be the model for every state....it is non-BJP states that are in the biggest trouble and really need to get action plan pushed to solve this headache.

In fact I feel rather than alloting more money to states relative to centre automatically, there should have been some metric in place regarding the nature of reforms in the state and their fiscal accountability and healthiness. No point giving more heroin to a heroin addict hoping he will change....need to cut it off, squeeze him and force him to change the behaviour.

But at least the well managed states are now getting rewarded and more disparity will be created over time that people will hopefully recognise. UDAY will be one cog in this for them. The lag between states will increasingly be due to the administrations of those states and their fiscal attitude. I hope that people will be able to realise this and vote accordingly....but masses are still way too gullible and undereducated it seems.
 

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