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Once considered one of the ‘Fragile Five’[1], India has returned to the forefront on the back of greater macroeconomic stability and accelerating growth, making this a good time to consider unlocking investment opportunities in a country where, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), GDP is expected to grow by 7.5% in 2015[2]. This puts India ahead of China as the world’s fastest growing large economy.
The structural case: an unmatched demographic potential
With more than 1.2 billion inhabitants, India is home to one sixth of the world’s population. Most importantly, it benefits from favourable demographics. As the chart shows, in India the number of people typically not in the labour force (the ‘dependents’) as a proportion of those at...
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