Managing & Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India

Watch our video putting this Fast Answer into action: we explore using the resources below to research clean energy in India.

Country Information & Data: locate demographic, economic, health, consumer, and other data series:

• Economist Intelligence Unit: India Dashboard: You can also navigate directly to their Data section to build a custom report.

• Government of India:

  • Department of Economic Affairs

  • Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation

  • Press Information Bureau

• Passport: search “India” to find a variety of consumer, economic, and industry reports for India.

• States of India (CMIE): India state level statistics (users must registers at the site for full access). 

HOLLIS: search the Harvard Library catalog for books, articles, and more.  Sample HOLLIS searches: 

• Entrepreneurship – India

• India -- Politics and government -- 21st century

• Social entrepreneurship -- India

Add additional topic keywords, date ranges, and/or limit searches to peer-reviewed articles to narrow HOLLIS results.  

Targeted articles searches: Search for articles in specific platforms:

• ScienceDirect: multidisciplinary – particularly strong in sciences

• Sage: multidisciplinary

• ABI/ProQuest: more focused on business/management

Think Tanks & Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs):

• Harvard Kennedy School Think Tank Guide: search across think tanks or navigate to specific sources to search. 

• World Bank Open Knowledge Repository: reports, policy briefs, and working papers from the World Bank. 

• Asia Development Bank: reports, policy briefs, and working papers from ADB. 

News Sources:

• Business Today: (available via Proquest). 

• Factiva (database): aggregator of major news and business publications.  Can limit search to Region: Asia – South Asia – India.  Relevant sources include: The Financial Express and India Today. 

• Emerging Markets Information System (EMIS): good international news coverage.  Search by keywords and country: India. 

• McKinsey & Co.’s India Insights: articles on India and business and other topics.

• Rest of World: tech news in non-Western markets – good India coverage. 

Macro Outlook, VCPE & Infrastructure Funding: 

• Pitchbook: screen for startups in India and read trend reports in the database's library/research center (search with keyword, company, or for "India" across reports).

• LSEG Workspace: use the database's various dashboard to find in-depth information:

  • Type Infrastructure 360 to access their global project finance dashboard.

  • Type Screener to run a screening for venture capital and private equity, selecting Private Equity/VC from the Universe menu.

  • Type IND OV for a market overview of the country.