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India Brand Equity Foundation LII
January 29, 2007

"India is better today and it can only get better", said Mr Kamal Nath, Minister for Commerce and Industry, addressing a group of CEOs at a breakfast session organised by the India Brand Equity Foundation at the World Economic Forum Annual Meet in Davos last week.

Moving up its improvement chart, India is now set to become the second largest economy in the world, ahead of the US, by 2050, says to a Goldman Sachs report. The study scaled up its estimates of India's prospects in its October 2003 paper known as the BRICs report.

The original report had projected that India's GDP would surpass Japan's by 2032 and that in 30 years, it would be the world's third largest economy after China and the US. The new report goes one step further by moving India up from No. 3 to No. 2.

Warm regards,




Jayant Bhuyan
CEO, India Brand Equity Foundation
& Deputy Director General, Confederation of Indian Industry
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