2019 is coming to an end, and what a year it has been. The Council is constantly evolving and as a senior official at the Foreign Ministry said; “Never before have we had we had so much going on between two countries ahead of a state visit as between Sweden and India”. It has surely kept us and our member companies busy!

The 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kramer for ‘their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty’. A large part of their research and the conclusions they made come from their long-standing partnership with Pratham Education Foundation and the work they have done on learning levels of children. As a member of Pratham Sweden’s Board...

A year after returning from India to Sweden, I am increasingly puzzled by the image, or lack of an image, of India one receives from following mainstream Swedish media and public debate. As Swedes, we sometimes complain about the lack of knowledge about Sweden in different environments abroad. The Swiss flag flying at Wall Street for Spotify´s IPO was a comical case in point, abhorred here for the...

Between October 4 -11, we arranged for a tech-eco-system delegation to Bengaluru and Mumbai. As someone in the delegation pointed out: “We could be sitting in Silicon Valley or in Silicon Valhalla.” The delegation consisted, among others, of the Royal Institute of Technology, Invest Stockholm, Swedish Space Corporation, Saab Innovation, start-up Brandie, Indpro, Journalist Kina Zeidler, Swedish...

Elections to the lower house (Lok Sabha) of the Indian Parliament is now well under way. It started April 11 and will end May 19, with the results to be announced on May 23.

This exercise in democracy, taking place every five years, is truly impressive. The sheer numbers – more than 900 million eligible voters, and more than 85 million young people with the right to vote for the first time –...

India’s interest in what goes on in the UK, given their historical context, is generally great. The Brexit campaign was followed with as much interest in Indian media as in many European countries. In spite of correct reporting that the outcome was very uncertain, the actual result came, as in many other countries, as a big shock here.

By issuing very timely statements of confidence in India’s...

The India-Sweden Business Leaders ’Round Table or ISBLRT is a high-level platform for business leaders from Sweden and India to identify joint challenges in the fields of research, innovation, investments, financing, trade, business, industrialization and regulation.

India is the world’s third largest economy (measured by purchasing-power-adjusted total GDP), after China and the US. But it is also the most rapidly-growing large economy, with a growth rate more than twice than that of the US, and now higher even than China’s. An already tremendously important part of the world economy, India is rapidly becoming even more important.

Just three weeks before 29 February, when the Modi government will present its second full year budget, the Central Statistics Office has released its projections of GDP growth for the current fiscal year. Its verdict? The Indian economy will attain a growth rate of 7.6 percent. Given the relatively disappointing third quarter results of 7.3 percent, it presupposes that GDP in the last quarter...

After losing the state elections in Delhi by a large margin (again after the landslide victory in Delhi in the general elections), a victory in Bihar was the least that Modi could have hoped for. Delhi could be dismissed as only the capital territory, but in Bihar, as the third largest state in the country, the defeat cannot be discounted so lightly.