The Information and Communication Technology Sector in India: Performance, Growth and Key Challenges

The rapid emergence of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector has placed India on the global stage during the last one and a half decades. e sector has acted as a catalyst for growth across the Indian economy, including in areas such as real estate, automobiles, travel and tourism, railway and mortgage banking industries. There is however no recent detailed OECD analysis on the Indian IT sector as a whole. his report sets out to fill the analytical gap, in particular by analysing longer-term developments through the 2000’s. It provides an overview of the recent performance and growth of the Indian ICT sector and related policies, focussing both on the software and hardware segments, and discusses the short- and longer-term outlook.