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

CategoriesElectronics Focus Areas Ideas for Growth

India’s Dilemma – Building Up Manufacturing or Soaring with Services?

Paving pathways for India’s labour force According to the PLFS report for 2021-22, the Indian worker population ratio for ages…

CategoriesFocus Areas Ideas for Growth

What the PLI scheme needs to succeed

The Indian government launched the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) in 2020, starting with the Large-Scale Electronics Manufacturing Sector. When launched,…

CategoriesFocus Areas Ideas for Growth

Enabling MSMEs to triple e-commerce exports in the next 5 years

MSMEs are called the powerhouse of the Indian Economy. They contribute 27% to India’s GDP, provide over 11 crore jobs…

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News & Updates

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.
46 per cent of India's workforce is engaged in agriculture, but the sector contributes just 18 per cent to the GDP. Manufacturing is the only sector capable of absorbing unskilled labour at scale. Outlook Business on our worker housing report.