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Industry 4.0 necessary to hike mfg share in GDP : Experts

The Dollar Business Bureau  Indian industry cannot ignore adopting Industry 4.0 and it has to focus more on making use of green technologies and best practices followed the world over, experts opined. This reaction comes in the wake of the Indian government setting its sights to increasing the share of manufacturing from 17 to 25 percent of GDP. And the government intends to do so in order to create millions of jobs and to push the country’s economic growth.  Speaking to the media about aiming for an increased economic share in GDP, Hospira Healthcare Managing Director, Srini Srinivasan said, “To achieve this target, Indian industry has to adopt Industry 4.0 as it is important to boost manufacturing,". He also added that adopting Industry 4.0 ...

Trade is a great leveller, but barriers still remain: WTO

 The Dollar Business Bureau | @TheDollarBiz “We are living off the liberalisation and reforms of the past.” - Roberto Azevêdo, DG, WTO   Trade will be the major driver of development in the 21st century, and countries must facilitate trade reforms and remove trade barriers to help the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) benefit from multilateral trade, Roberto Azevêdo, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) said at the launch of the annual World Trade Report yesterday. According to the WTO report, global trading system has helped reduce the gap between developed and developing countries in the last two decades. The report speaks about the three major waves of economic development the world has seen since the industrial revolution of the late ...