Japan Bank for International Cooperation has released 35th survey on "Survey Report on Overseas Business Operations by Japanese Manufacturing Companies" for the year 2023.
Here are some of the interesting trends on India from the report.👇
The objective of this survey is aimed to research and analyze the current status and future prospects for overseas business development of Japanese manufacturing companies.
987 companies have been surveyed with a response rate of 54%. These companies are across sectors and headquartered across Japan. These also include Japanese SMEs.
On Twitter, there is a common refrain that Modi is unable to achieve the same speed of development as China. There is a comparison between how China built its bullet train network and the current plan for the bullet train network in India.
The other comparison is with regards to how China continues to dominate manufacturing and how India still lags behind on the same.
I wanted to write a thread on why it is unfair to compare a democratic country like India to China and why it is impossible in a democracy to achieve the rapidity of progress in China.
If there’s an overarching truth in the workplace right now, it’s this: Many workers don’t want to go back to the office. Plenty of bosses say they should.
The result is a stalemate. Office-occupancy rates have stagnated around 50%, even as more companies step up in-office work mandates.
Everything from daycare to public transportation, toll roads, fuel and fuel taxes, auto purchases and maintenance, dry cleaners, nail spas, restaurants, clothiers, hair stylists, dog walkers, nannies and office leases suffer when people work from home,
For much of the past decade, Western companies have sought an alternative to China to manufacture goods—a shift executives call “China plus one.” Increasingly, the strategy looks more like China plus many.
Apple, with a sprawling production base in China, is rapidly expanding in Vietnam and India, an emerging smartphone-making hub.
Crocs, which shifted production of a large share of its colorful shoes from China to Vietnam, recently stepped up sourcing from Indonesia and is also setting up in India.
As a Kannadiga, I am tired of this grouping of us with Tamil exceptionalism. We don't want to anything to do with this where imagined "North Indian Dominance" is replaced by actual Tamil Dominance. Please, @manujosephsan, leave us out of this nonsense.
As a proud Kannadiga, born in Karnataka (and dare say who can read, write and speak in Kannada), we Kannadigas are apprehensive of these so called “united south India” claims.