India’s Western and Southern regions stand at the forefront of the nation’s economic transformation, anchoring India’s image as a globally competitive, outward-looking growth engine. These regions have powered advances in software, IT-enabled services, and export-driven manufacturing, with their success pivotal to India’s ambition to double or even quadruple its GDP. Yet, the real drivers of such transformation reside at the subnational level, shaped decisively by state and city policy.
Highlights
- The Southern & Western regions have emerged as the growth engine of India.
- The great successes of a globally competitive, outwardly oriented India, are found in these regions, ranging across software to IT enabled services to a new rise of export-oriented manufacturing. The next doubling and quadrupling of India’s GDP critically relies on success in these states.
- Given the federalism that is embedded into the Constitution of India, many of the important aspects of this trajectory lie in policy decisions at the state and city levels.
- The activities in Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala are now disproportionately important in shaping India’s future.
- LEPC VII will explore this economic success, diagnose the sources of this success, and discuss pathways for superior policy outcomes.
Karnataka has been identified as a forerunner state in India. As such, LEPC VII will bring together leading thinkers, practitioners, and policymakers in Bengaluru to analyze the drivers behind this sub national success, and to chart actionable pathways for the future. Each session outlined below explores a foundational dimension of India’s growth story, with attention to both policy diagnosis and on-the-ground innovation.
Organizers & Partners
The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), New York, USA
Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bengaluru, India
Government of Karnataka, India
XKDR Forum, Mumbai, India
AP & Partners, New Delhi, India
LEPC VII Team
Sunanda Nair-Bidkar, Ajay Shah, Krishna Raj, Bikram Barman, Christina Kujur, Utkarsh Narain, Geetika Palta, Jay Kulkarni
