Harsh and I have co-authored a piece on why India should expand the participation of domestic institutional investors in the equity market:
India’s economic growth has been achieved on the back of sustained investment and improved capital allocation in the economy made possible by structural reforms. However, we are once again approaching a scenario where India may be heading into an investment famine, which would then translate into sub-par growth.But India is being starved for investment just when several domestic institutions have significant investible capital but are barred from deploying this capital in the economy as equity investors.
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