Our Work

Accelerating India’s Growth to Improve Lives

FED aims to facilitate sustained & broad-based economic growth of over 10%, to improve the lives of all Indians.

We identify high-impact growth opportunities in areas like labor-intensive exports, housing, etc., and work with the government on creating a value chain of reform

Our Focus Areas

Opportunities for Fast & Sustained Growth

Manufacturing

India should capitalise on Its low-skilled labour pool to drive export-led growth

Construction

Construction in India has the potential to create 1.5 crore productive jobs

Tourism

Tourism employs 3.2 crore people & has the potential to absorb more workers

CategoriesFocus Areas Ideas for Growth

Report: Worker Housing | Unlocking Labour-intensive Manufacturing In India

Our biggest imperative as a nation today is to create good jobs that would help our humungous workforce transition out…

CategoriesFocus Areas

Lant Pritchett On Growth, Development & Income Inequality | Ep 9 | FED Dialogues

Our guest for October is one of the strongest proponents of countries striving for GDP growth as a means of improving…

CategoriesFocus Areas Ideas for Growth

Ajay Shah On 4 Pillars Of Industrial Policy, And Why They’re All Bad | Ep 8 | FED Dialogues

Ajay Shah, economist extraordinaire and author of the finest primer on public policy in India – ‘In Service of the…

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Our guest for this episode is an employer who went beyond merely railing about the excessive compliances that Indian businesses must put up with. Manish Sabharwal admits that his earlier attempts at influencing policy outcomes for the Indian industry were overly philosophical. “But reform only happens when you make your ask specific, finite and actionable,” he says in this episode. Sabharwal has many actionable asks. They all circle back to shedding our regulatory weight, cutting down on bureaucratic excesses, and turning India into a lean and mean administrative machine that empowers businesses instead of limiting them. Watch the full episode on our YouTube.
Should we look at MSMEs and large corporations as competitors. Should our policies favour one at the expense of another? FED Operating Partner Piyush Doshi says the presence of large corporations will only contribute to the growth of India's MSME ecosystem. Watch the full news clip.
Our guest for this episode, Tarun Bajaj, first stepped onto the field as an IAS Officer in 1988, just as India was about to shed its socialist baggage. While the country navigated the shift from scarcity to relative abundance, he had a ringside view (and several performing roles) of how the bureaucracy and political executive went from resisting to accepting the idea of the government giving up control of the economy. Watch the full conversation. Episode 10 of our podcast - Growth is Good.