Episode #47: Modi's Semiconductor Reform Draws Huge Foreign Investment

About this episode

This episode discusses Modi's semiconductor reform and its impact on foreign investment and India's self-reliance strategy.

In this episode, our host, Elisa De Angelis, sits down with Bryan Thorne to discuss Modi's successful semiconductor reform, which has attracted significant foreign investment and its overall ties to his 'Self-Reliant India' campaign. We look at how global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic has affected Modi's semiconductor reform, what political value semiconductors represent, and how these unfathomably small components are having such a huge impact.

People in this episode

Host: Elisa De Angelis

Guest: Bryan Thorne

Topics covered

• semiconductor reform
• foreign investment
• Self-Reliant India
• COVID-19 recovery
• political value of semiconductors

Keywords

• semiconductors
• foreign investment
• Modi
• Self-Reliant India
• COVID-19
• political value

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Modi, Self-Reliant India

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