Furthering South-South Cooperation:

The Role of Exim Bank

Nadeem Panjetan

Chief General Manager

Export-Import Bank of India

Pune, February 11, 2015

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF INDIA

• Developing economies or economies of the South have emerged as drivers of global growth.

• Despite economic slowdown in the North, all regions in the South have experienced growth and South-South trade has grown to unprecedented levels

• According to UNCTAD, the world merchandise exports were at US$ 18.8 trillion in 2013 of which South-South trade was US$ 4.7 trillion.

• 56% of exports from developing countries went to other developing countries in 2013.

• According to World Bank developing countries now provide 33% of global investment and are projected to provide more

than half of total capital stock by 2030.

INTRODUCTION

• Development Assistance from the industrially developed countries to the developing economies is under constraint given the financial and economic downturn.

• A number of emerging economies have emerged as providers of development assistance leading to further South-South cooperation in implementing country specific or regional projects.

• Governmental recognition of the importance of South-South cooperation is reflected in the institutions that have been set up to promote that involvement.

• Not only China and India but a host of countries of the South have set up export-import banks that support trade and development with other developing countries.

INTRODUCTION

• Exim Bank of India, has played a catalytic role in effecting India’s increasing integration with the global economy, with particular reference to the countries of the South.

• Exim Bank’s wide range of programmes - endeavors to contribute to development of productive capacities and infrastructure building in LDCs through Lines of Credit; Project Exports; Joint Ventures; Institutional building & linkages; Other Initiatives.

• Exim Bank seeks to collaborate with countries of the South through trade, investment, and capacity building.

• The Bank is also involved in facilitating knowledge and technology transfer within the emerging economies, thereby partnering in the overall development of the South.

EXIM BANK – PARTNER IN DEVELOPMENT

INDIA’S EXPORT: SHIFTING SOUTHWARDS

India’s Export Destinations 2003-04 (US$ 63.8 bn) India’s Export Destinations 2013-14 (US$ 314.4 bn)

Direction of exports moving towards the Southern countries Share of Asia, Africa and LAC regions increased from 54% in 2003-04 to 64% in 2013-14; Of this, share of Asia

region rose from 46% to 50% during this period Future trade flows to be geared towards the developing nations

Source: Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India

Europe 18.7%

Africa 10.0%

North America

13.4%

LAC 4.0%

Asia 49.7%

CIS & Baltics 1.1%

Others 3.2%

Europe 24.5%

Africa 6.0%

North America

19.2%

LAC 1.8%

Asia 46.4%

CIS & Baltics 1.6%

Others 0.4%

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INDIA’S IMPORT: SHIFTING SOUTHWARDS

India’s Import Sources 2003-04 (US$ 78 bn) India’s Import Sources 2013-14 (US$ 450.2 bn)

Direction of imports also moving towards the Southern countries, particularly Asia, Africa and LAC

Share of Asia, Africa and LAC regions increased sharply from 40% in 2003-04 to 76% in 2013-14; Of this, share of Asia region rose from 35% to 61% during this period

Source: Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India

Europe 15.7%

Africa 8.2%

North America

5.6%

LAC 7.3%

Asia 60.9%

CIS & Baltics 1.7%

Others 0.6%

Europe 24.0%

Africa 4.1%

North America

7.4%

LAC 1.5%

Asia 34.8%

CIS & Baltics 1.6%

Others 26.6%

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• SET UP BY AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT IN SEPTEMBER 1981

• WHOLLY OWNED BY GOVERNMENT OF INDIA

• COMMENCED OPERATIONS IN MARCH 1982

• OBJECTIVES:

“… for providing financial assistance to exporters and importers,

and for functioning as the principal financial institution for

coordinating the working of institutions engaged in financing

export and import of goods and services with a view to promoting

the country’s international trade…”

(Export-Import Bank of India Act, 1981)

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF INDIA

RANGE OF PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Pre- Shipment

Export Marketing

Export Production

Export Product

Development

Import Finance

Advisory Services

Investment Abroad

Post- Shipment

INFORMATION

Advisory Services

Knowledge Building

SUPPLEMENTS FINANCING PROGRAMMES

At All Stages of Export Business Cycle Value Based Services to Exporters

FINANCING, FACILITATING INDIA’S TWO WAY TRADE & INVESTMENT

FINANCING PROGRAMMES

Financing Program (Various Currencies)

Export Credit

Medium / Long Term

Lines of

Credit

Buyer’s

Credit

Supplier’s

Credit

Short Term

Pre / Post Shipment

Credit

Import Credit

Import Loan for

capital goods

Bulk Import Loan

for Raw Materials

Loans for Exporting Units

Term Loans for expansion/ diversification / new projects/ export product development/ export marketing / research &

development

Term Loans for overseas equity

investment

Direct equity stake in Indian/

Overseas ventures of exporting

companies

LINES OF CREDIT

LOC - A Catalyst for Trade Promotion

• Exim Bank gives special emphasis on extension of Lines of Credit

(LOCs) as an effective market entry mechanism.

• LOCs are extended to overseas financial institutions, regional

development banks and foreign governments and their agencies.

• LOCs enable buyers in those countries to import developmental and

infrastructural projects, equipment, goods and services from India,

on deferred credit terms.

• LOC is a financing mechanism that provides a safe mode of non-

recourse financing option to Indian exporters.

LINES OF CREDIT

Lines of Credit (LOCs)

Exim’s own LOCs to economically strong developing countries and regional development banks

At behest of GOI, concessional LOCs to developing countries in Asia/ Africa/ Latin America/ CIS and Oceania with a long-term perspective. While Exim raises the resources and funds disbursement, GOI provides guarantee and interest equalisation support .

Status of LOCs as on February 10, 2015

No. of LOCs operative : 191

No. of countries covered : 63

Total amount of LOCs sanctioned : US$ 11.58 billion

Two LOCs extended to Government

of Sri Lanka aggregating USD

798.96 mn for re-construction of

Railway Lines in Northern Province

of Sri Lanka have enhanced the

accessibility, safety and speed of

train travel in Sri Lanka.

The Omanthai to Pallai Railway line

project was completed during

September 2013 and the Madhu

Road to Talai Mannar and Pallai to

Kankesanthurai Railway line

projects are expected to be

completed by June 2015.

Success Stories ..

Railways

Success Stories: Sri Lanka

Equipments supplied, installed, commissioned and training provided by Apollo International Ltd., Gurgaon, under the LOC of US$ 30 mn to Govt. of Malawi, for One

Village One Product Programme (OVOP) and Small Holder’s Irrigation Programme

Agro-processing plant

Success Stories: Malawi

• Angelique International Limited and Mahindra & Mahindra (Mahindra Tractors) identified Africa as a high focus tractor market.

• In April 2010 first tractor assembly unit in Mali commenced operation with construction assistance from Angelique International Ltd.

• M&M introduced their fuel-efficient machines and transformed the way African farmers used tractors. Now with a single machine they could cultivate, plough, harrow, haul and do many other things at a low running cost.

• Govt. of Mali has now converted the facility to a regular factory with equity participation of Angelique International Limited.

Tractor Manufacturing and Assembly Plant (Mali Tracteurs S.A.) in Mali, financed under Exim Bank’s Line of Credit of US$ 27 mn

to Government of Mali.

Success Stories: Mali

• Coverage area under irrigation has

increased more than two fold.

• Rice production in the region has

also gone up by 180%

• Now, around 40% of the rice

demand of Northern Senegal could

be met by local production, as

compared to the earlier 19% of

local demand.

• Reduced the import bill of food

products as also generated

employment as field workers

(particularly women farmers) and

servicing staff of equipment.

Under the LOC of US$ 27 mn to Senegal, Kirloskar Brothers Ltd. manufactured, supplied and installed 2394 diesel engine pumpsets in rice producing zones of Senegal

Success Story: Senegal

• An LOC of USD 25 million has been extended to the Government of Mozambique for financing IT park project in Mozambique involving setting up of and developing a Science and Technology Park as well as a Technological Development and Innovation Centre.

• The project has been completed in September 2014.

Success Stories: Mozambique

Success Stories

Two LOCs aggregating US$ 80 mn were extended to the Government of Rwanda for financing the 28 MW Nyaborongo Hydro-power project in Rwanda.

The project slated to be Rwanda’s biggest hydroelectric power plant and would be a boost to Rwanda’s national power grid.

Would cater to 25% of total electricity demand of Rwanda

Success Stories: Rwanda

LOCs of US$ 10 mn and US$ 16.88 mn were extended to the Government of Gambia for financing the Construction of National Assembly Building Complex.

The project was inaugurated on October 13, 2014 by the Hon’ble President of Gambia H.E. Dr. Yahya AJJ Jammeh Babili Mansa.

The Assembly Complex constructed by Shapoorji Pallonji & Co. Ltd. comprises meeting rooms for VIPs, offices for majority and minority leaders, a chamber that can accommodate 400 guests as well as an auditorium with a capacity for 150 persons.

Success Stories (contd.) Success Stories: Gambia

• Strengthening infrastructure and related facilities is vital for fostering a country’s productive capacity

• Exim Bank plays an active role in supporting Indian project exporters to execute such developmental projects in overseas markets, which in turn supplement the efforts of the host country governments in achieving their developmental objectives

• In the LDCs, more than 50 infrastructure and developmental projects are being executed by Indian corporates, with Exim Bank’s support, in countries such as:

- Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Senegal, Tanzania, Sudan, Zambia,

• Such Projects include: Electricity generation, transmission & distribution projects; hydroelectricity projects; road construction projects; copper smelting plants; sugar processing plants; supply of railway equipments; IT projects

Fostering Infrastructure Building

PROJECT EXPORTS

• Exports of projects and services, broadly categorised into Civil engineering construction projects, Turnkey projects, Consultancy services.

• Over the past two decades, increasing number of contracts have been secured by Indian companies in (i) Sub Saharan Africa (ii) North Africa (iii) West Asia (iv) South & South East Asia (v) CIS Region and (vi) Latin America.

Promoting Project Exports

Projects Currently Under Execution with Exim Bank Support (September 30, 2014)

No. of Contracts : 374 Value of Contracts : US$ 26.85 billion

No. of Countries : 78 No of Indian companies : 112

PROJECT EXPORTS

Exim Bank : Supporting Projects & Services Exports from India to Africa

• Turnkey contract for Gas Based Power Project in Tanzania funded by The

World Bank.

• Transmission Line Projects in Algeria, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Libya, Zambia

• Telecommunications Network Project in Ghana

• Turnkey contract for Multi-Product Pipeline Project & Road Construction

Project in Sudan

• Power Station Project in Egypt.

• Consultancy assignment in Cement Plant in Nigeria.

• Supplies for Urban Power Rehabilitation Project in Uganda.

• Construction of Cyber Towers & Conference Center in Mauritius.

Facilitating and supporting Infrastructure Development

Exim Bank: Supporting Projects & Services Exports from India to Other Regions

• Power generation & transmission line projects in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Vietnam,

Myanmar Laos, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia,

• Supply of machinery & transport equipment- Bangladesh, Myanmar, Suriname, Honduras

• Oil and gas- Qatar, Oman, Thailand, Myanmar

• Transportation & railway line projects- Sri Lanka, Nepal, Malaysia

• Consultancy services for Hydroelectric Project- Nepal, Laos

• Engineering & Construction projects- Cuba, Guyana, Cambodia, Malaysia, Jordan

• Construction of dams- Saudi Arabia, Bhutan, Sri Lanka

• Telecommunications Network Project in Qatar, Malaysia, UAE, Turkmenistan, Sri Lanka

• Irrigation projects in Guyana, Laos

• Sugar Projects in Fiji Islands

Facilitating and supporting Infrastructure Development

Project Exports – Fostering Infrastructure Building

AFGHANISTAN - TURNKEY CONTRACT FOR TRANSMISSION LINE EXECUTED BY

KEC INTERNATIONAL LTD.

TANZANIA - SONGO SONGO GAS ELECTRICITY PROJECT, FUNDED BY WORLD BANK AND

EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK, EXECUTED BY LARSEN & TOUBRO LTD

PROJECT EXPORTS

Project Exports – Fostering Infrastructure Building

BHUTAN - TALA HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT - CONSTRUCTED BY A CONSORTIUM

COMPRISING LARSEN & TOUBRO LTD., JAIPRAKASH INDUSTRIES LTD., HINDUSTAN

CONSTRUCTION COMPANY LTD.

ETHIOPIA – POWER TRANSMISSION & DISTRIBUTION PROJECT EXECUTED BY

KEC INTERNATIONAL LTD.

PROJECT EXPORTS

... to boost Project Exports from India

• Under the Programme, the Bank extends credit facility to

overseas sovereign governments and government owned entities for import of goods and services from India on deferred credit terms.

• Bank obtains cover under NEIA through ECGC; guarantee fee to be borne by the buyer/seller, as may be agreed.

• Facility to cover 85% of contract value. Higher Credit amount may be considered on case to case basis.

• Credit Period between 8 to 12 years; longer tenor may be considered on merits.

• The Bank has till date sanctioned an aggregate amount of US$ 2.18 bn for 16 projects valued US$ 3.49 bn.

BUYER’S CREDIT UNDER NEIA

Access to Indian technologies and products at competitive price

Indian technology – Triple ‘A’

“Appropriate” “Adaptable” “Affordable”

Developmental and infrastructure projects – Transfer of technology

Capacity building

Concessional interest rates and long repayment periods with moratorium

Benefits of LOC and Project Exports recipient countries

• In recent years, India has emerged as a leading overseas investor, with cumulative overseas investment amounting to US$ 118 bn in 2013 (UNCTAD 2014)

• Exim Bank supports Indian companies in their endeavour to globalise their operations, through joint ventures (JVs) and wholly owned subsidiaries (WOS).

• Several such ventures have been supported in a number of developing countries including:

Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Nigeria, Oman, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, Zambia

• These ventures serve to promote value addition, and also contribute to capacity building and capacity creation in host countries.

Supporting South-South Investment

PROMOTING INVESTMENT & VALUE ADDITION

Financing for Overseas Investments

Financing Equity Investments/ Acquisitions / JVs

Comprehensive assistance:

o Pre investment advisory services; Finance through debt and equity

Finance available for:

o Greenfield projects; Brownfield expansion;

o Overseas acquisitions directly or through special purpose vehicles

Loan against Equity; loans to Overseas Indian Ventures; direct equity participation in Indian ventures abroad.

As on December 31, 2014, Exim Bank has provided finance to 518 ventures set up by more than 409 companies in 80 countries. So far, aggregate assistance extended to overseas investments amounted to around US$ 6.5 bn.

Promoting Overseas Investments

• Coal and Coke- Australia, Indonesia, Sinagpore

• Electrical and electronics- Bangladesh, Brazil

• Textiles and clothing- Bangladesh, Switzerland

• Energy- Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Netherlands, USA

• Pharmaceuticals- Brazil, China, Uganda

• Packaging- Turkey, China , Nigeria

• Steel- Chile, China, Netherlands, Sri Lanka, UAE, UK

• Rubber- Kenya

• Chemicals- Germany, Jordan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Morocco, Taiwan, UAE,

USA

• Glass- USA, Germany, Sri Lanka,

• Automobile Industry- Germany

• Fertilizers- Ghana, Morocco,

• Irrigation- Mauritius, Israel

• Metals- Italy, Tanzania

Supporting Two Way Investments

Financing for Research & Development

Financing R&D Activities of EOU’s

• Extended to any Export Oriented Unit (EOU) by way of term loan

(senior / subordinated) or equity participation or as a hybrid product

• Also extended to Research Foundations/ Institutes/ SPVs promoted by

companies eligible for financing

• Eligible expenditure to cover capital as well as revenue expenditure

• Exim Bank facility restricted to 80% of the total financing requirement

Exim Bank and SMEs

• A special group handling SME

• Seeks to help Indian SME sector to establish their products overseas and enter

new markets through Exim’s overseas offices and MOU partner network

• Set up a Technology and Innovation Enhancement and Infrastructure

Development (TIEID) Fund exclusively for MSMEs by partnering with the

banks/FIs. The fund seeks to meet medium- and long-term foreign currency

loan requirement of Indian Exporting entities in the MSME sector.

• Received approval from ADB for a term loan of US$ 100 mn (for a tenor of up

to 7 years) to extend sub-loans to SMEs and SME clusters in select states of

India

Competitive Financing for SMEs

Grassroots Initiative and Development -

Supporting Exports From Rural India

• Marketing of Bamboo Craft Products and improving Packaging and

Presentation

• Mechanization of Incense Sticks (Agarbatti) rolling activity

• Cluster of companies propagating traditional system of Indian medicines for

setting up a common infrastructure facility

• Enterprise sourcing tasar silk products, to enhance exports and higher

productivity and income levels of women

• Handloom cluster, for visual merchandising of the product, e-tailing, and

establishment of yarn bank and website upgradation

• Artisans’ and farmers’ cooperative society, which produces naturally dyed silk

and wool textiles for purchase of machineries for dyeing

Financial support to rural grassroots enterprises

Organizations supported under GRID

ECO TASAR SILK PVT. LTD. : Formed in association with Masuta Producer Company Limited (a producer company promoted by PRADAN, the shareholders of which are the Weavers from its TASAR project in Jharkhand and Bihar). Bank has sanctioned Pre-Post Shipment Credit/Working Capital facility during 2012 towards part financing the cost of procurement of raw materials to meet export order requirement towards off-the-loom products on handlooms in Bhagalpur working with 1200 artisans. Product range consists of scarves, stoles, shawls, sarees, throws and dupattas. INDUSTREE CRAFTS PVT. LTD. : Is a Bangalore based profit organization which specializes in using locally available natural materials such as river grass, banana bark yarn and palm leaves amongst others to create objects of everyday use, which works with 300 artisans.

SAHAJ – AN ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN’S DEVELOPMENT : Is a registered trust and is working with more than 1200 tribal women artisans and nearly 700 tribal families. The main activities include Bead work, Bamboo basketry and furniture, Paper Mache, Beaded Jewellery, Wood carving, furniture, Block Printing, Stuffed toys, etc.

• Last Forest is a social enterprise, which promotes Agro-Ecological products focusing on apiculture, non-timber forest produce, land and water management, revival of traditional agriculture and other issues concerning indigenous communities.

• Currently around 2000 artisans belonging to different backgrounds depend on Last Forest for their day to day survival and fulfillment of their basic needs.

• The organization focuses on providing a marketing platform for primary producers, forest dwellers, weavers and craftsmen comprising men and women from marginalized and indigenous communities.

• Exim Bank supported Last Forest by providing working capital term loan.

Last Forest Enterprises Private Limited, Kotagiri, Tamil Nadu

• Under The Mango Tree works with farmers and sources high-quality, fairly-traded honey from farmers society and other producer cooperatives across India. It is India’s only organic, single-origin honey brand.

• It sells honey through retail, hospitality chains, gifting and exports and directly impacts the lives of poor farmers in the states of M.P., Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra.

• UTMT has directly or indirectly impacted lives of over 14,000 individuals by way of training nearly 1500 farmers in beekeeping and providing direct market access to over 3,000 small beekeepers across six states.

• EXIM Bank has supported UTMT by way of extending Working Capital Facility .

Under The Mango Tree Naturals and Organics Pvt. Ltd.

• CWEI is a non-profit organization with a mandate to work for the skill upgradation and marketing of products of rural artisans.

• CWEI works closely with the Ministry of Rural Development to support BPL families in India through public-private partnerships.

• Around 6000 artisans and individual entrepreneurs; 500 members in the North East; 150 NGOs are associated and derive benefit from the activities of CWEI.

• Exim Bank supported CWEI and sponsored for a Design Development Training work for Iron and Brass metal Crafts for the artisans of Kondagaoan, Chhattisgarh

Consortium of Women Entrepreneurs of India (CWEI)

Training and Workshops conducted

• Exim Bank conducted a ten-days “Design Development &Training Workshop” for 30 rural women artisans in the area of coconut shell crafts in Marcel, Goa. The workshop imparted training to women artisans with a view to improve the scope of their income generation through new design and development of marketable products. The initiative resulted in developing of 25 prototypes having international appeal in the said craft.

• Organized a 15 days training cum workshop programme for 60 master artisans for Handloom Products in association with Impulse Social Enterprise Private Limited, Shillong, in Golaghat District of Assam. The objective was to impart training to the skilled master artisans to improve their understanding and quality consciousness of handloom products, in the larger context of improving the scope of income generation through new design and development of marketable products.

Impact

• Improving Packaging, Presentation and Marketing of Bamboo Craft Products, URAVU, Wayanad, Kerala : Promotes bamboo craft for ensuring livelihood sustenance of rural poor, especially women. Exim Bank conceptualized a bamboo pen “Script O”. Exim Bank intervention has helped : Increase the brand value of URAVU through promotional videos and other packaging and design workshop. Productivity of workers almost doubled and standardization of process helped them reduce cost to one-third. Tie up with Village Store, Mumbai helped them get Rs. 20 lakhs worth of orders.

• Mechanization of Agarbatti rolling activity, ORMAS, Bhubaneswar, Odisha : The objective being mechanization in rural enterprises for their efficient capacity building. Exim Bank loan of Rs.5 lakhs through GRID has helped : 400% increase in productivity from 2kg/day up to 10 kg/per day. 400% increase in income from Rs.18/day to Rs.90/day. Change in aspiration to people, Improved access to healthcare and Importance given to education of children. Easy replication of the machines has helped ORMAS to further scale up the project.

Impact

• ECO Tasar Silk Pvt. Ltd. : Impact in the Value Chain.

A. Yarn Makers :

1000 women yarn makers get sustenance on account of their association with ECO Tasar.

Rs. 1 cr worth of cumulative wages generated.

Only wild silk from Jharkhand and Assam tribals is sourced.

B. Handloom Weavers: Cumulative sales resulted in weaving of 1,05,918 metres just for the exports market. Overall, over 238000 metres woven materials were sold. The business has been able to generate Rs.1.2 cr worth of wages and has created job opportunities for almost 290 weavers on a full time basis.

C. Finishers and other service providers in Handloom Chain :

The business has been able to generate Rs.47,60,000/- as wages for approx. 124 persons.

• Services for Indian companies to access overseas and domestic markets by way of locating distributor(s) / buyer(s) / JV partner(s)

for quality Indian products and services

• Platform provided for marketing and sale of handicraft and handloom products for NGO’s and artisans

• Capacity building & Design Sensitization through workshops / seminars / training

• Display of products at the Bank’s domestic and overseas offices

MARKETING ADVISORY SERVICES

Products Markets

Alphanso Mango Singapore

Bidariware metal artifact India

Handmade Paper Packaging Products India

Fruit & Fresh Vegetables Singapore

Silk Stoles & RMG India

Incense Sticks South Africa

Triple refined Iodized Salt Qatar

Mango Puree UK

Diwali Diyas Singapore

Wedding Accessories France

Corporate Placement India

PRODUCT PLACEMENT

BIDAR BIDRI YOUTH MANDAL, BIDAR

Design Sensitization and Product Development Workshop for Bidar Artisans :-

• Two workshops on Design Sensitization and Design Development were conducted at Bidar

• Training was imparted in association with National Institute of Design (NID) to over 50 artisans.

Over 30 prototypes of utility and affordable products were developed with an international appeal

TRAINING WORKSHOPS

QUALITY CONTROL, BRANDING & PACKAGING SEMINAR FOR JHARCRAFT ARTISANS • In partnership with Government of Jharkhand, a

seminar on Packaging, Branding & Quality Control for Handicrafts and Silk based Readymade Garments Wood-crafts, Lac Bangles and Jewelleries, Terracotta, Madhubani, Sohrai & Khovar Paintings, Cotton Textiles and Leather products

• Over 250 artisans from Jharcraft(A Govt. of Jharkhand undertaking) were trained at Ranchi and Hazaribagh

• Relevance of innovative packaging and branding was highlighted to meet international standards

SEMINAR

INTERNATIONAL CRAFT EXCHANGE PROGRAMME BETWEEN INDIA & ZIMBABWE, AGARTALA, TRIPURA

• A 10 days International Craft Exchange programme was organized focusing on Bamboo basketry and related handicrafts in Agartala, along with “National Centre for Design and Product Development” and “Bamboo and Cane Development Institute”.

• 25 master craft persons from Zimbabwe & 25 Indian master craft persons participated in the programme.

• They learnt the process or weaving and making baskets, mats and other handicraft products from bamboo.

WORKSHOP

Feasibility study for setting up the Afreximbank

Establishing an Export Credit Guarantee Company in Zimbabwe

Blueprint for establishing Exim Bank in Zimbabwe

Designing of Export Financing Programmes – Turkey, South Africa

Mauritius – Study on Projecting Mauritius as an Investment Hub for Indian

Firms

Commissioned to design, develop and Implement Programme on Film

Financing for NEXIM Bank, Nigeria

Feasibility study for establishment of an export credit and guarantee

facility for Gulf Cooperation Council countries

Export Development Project : Ukraine, Vietnam, Armenia

Setting up an Exim Bank in Malaysia

EXIM BANK AS CONSULTANT

COMESA: A Study of India’s Trade and Investment Potential

SADC: A Study of India’s Trade and Investment Potential

IBSA: Enhancing Economic Cooperation Across Continents

ECOWAS: A Study of India’s Trade and Investment Potential

Maghreb Region: A Study of India’s Trade and Investment Potential

Select West African Countries: A Study of India’s Trade and Investment Potential

Select Southern African Countries: A Study of India’s Trade and Investment Potential

Enhancing India’s Trade Relations with Africa: Focus on Select Countries

CLMV: Enhancing India’s Bilateral Ties with CLMV countries

RESEARCH & ANALYSIS

• Exim Bank has been actively supporting Indian companies venturing into South-South collaborations

• Exim Bank through its offices and institutional network has contributed to strengthening bilateral commercial engagements.

• Exim Bank would be keen to work with and support many more such companies through its financing programmes and advisory services which would help in capacity building in the countries of the southern regions.

IN SUM