“India, with a 7 per cent growth rate, is flowing against the tide despite the difficult economic environment prevailing across the world,” said Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
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Can’t Wish Away Coal
Benjamin Sporton, Chief Executive of the powerful London-based World Coal Association (WCA), urges India to move over to high-efficiency, low-emission coal-fired power plants, and predicts that there is enough room for all sources of energy in the country's rapidly expanding economy.
We want to focus on doing the largest transactions
When I came to India last year, I first focused on finding assets to finance. I started with some very small projects. These were portfolios of rooftops or small utility scale projects that gave us an understanding about the issues here. I´d also been advising the Aditya Birla group prior to moving, with the previous firm I was working with in New York.
Dial India for business
As the government is busy announcing and working on measures which apparently seem insignificant, instead of big bang reforms, yet investor confidence has picked up pace.
As economy booms, pressure to cut subsidies will go down
By the end of next year, both projects and financial facilitation for them should reach a stage where it's smooth sailing for infrastructure sectors, if Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission of India, has his way.
Global Policy: Around the world, infra is in critical stages
Severe budget constraints will limit many governments’ ability to fund improvements, and private financing will have to fill the gap.



