Regional Agenda World Economic Forum on India

The 2012 World Economic Forum on India, themed 'From Deliberation to Transformation,' addressed the critical need for India to move from discussion to action to avoid a 'middle-income trap.' The report highlights systemic risks including infrastructure neglect, corruption, and gender disparity, while advocating for a multistakeholder approach to governance and human capital investment to secure future growth.

• India faces significant systemic risks that threaten its economic stability, specifically the persistent neglect of infrastructure in the energy and transport sectors, as well as the intertwined challenges of climate change, water scarcity, and food insecurity.
• Gender disparity represents a major loss of human capital; only 23% of Indian women are in the workforce, and the UNDP suggests that increasing this participation to 70% could raise India's annual GDP rate by 4.2%.
• India's business environment is severely hampered by overregulation and corruption, ranking 132nd out of 185 countries in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business index, with particularly low rankings in enforcing contracts and construction permits.
• The report identifies a critical gap in the education system where a large portion of technical graduates are not 'job ready,' with a 2011 NASSCOM report finding that over 75% of such graduates are unemployable.
• Corruption and a lack of transparency are major hurdles to growth, with India ranking 95th on the Corruption Perception Index.
• India is experiencing a health crisis related to lifestyle diseases, with projections that by 2020 it will have the second largest diabetic population in the world and over 60% of deaths will be from lifestyle-related diseases.

APA

World Economic Forum (2012). Regional Agenda World Economic Forum on India. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/IN12/WEF_IN12_Report.pdf

Chicago

World Economic Forum. Regional Agenda World Economic Forum on India. 2012. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/IN12/WEF_IN12_Report.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldeconomicforum2012regional, author = {{World Economic Forum}}, title = {{Regional Agenda World Economic Forum on India}}, institution = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2012}, url = {http://www3.weforum.org/docs/IN12/WEF_IN12_Report.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }