JICA India chief pushes for opening India market further for investment

India needs to open up its market further to foreign firms and enhance ease of doing business to improve competitiveness and attract more investments from Japan in the key sector like semiconductors, said T Takuro, chief representative, Japanese International Cooperation Agency (Jica) India Office.

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Currently, the government is thinking by the year 2047, India should become a developed country. "To reach such stages, I think maybe there are a couple of important things," he told Business Standard. India should take advantage of the size of the market. The economy seems to be stable, because of the size of the domestic market. The country can grow even without fully opening the market. But to g