The value of shares in the world’s largest democracy has also grown rapidly this century.
A recent study published in Lancet suggests the country will have the world’s largest working age population by 2100. Innovation plays an increasing role with information technology coming up on the rails.
“The best performing markets in Q2 were markets such as India. Brazil and India actually were impacted by the second wave of COVID and one did not expect them to be the best performing markets in Q2 but that's how they turned out to be.”
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