ISB collaborates with AP Govt to boost economy post COVID-19

The AP Economic Development Board, on behalf of the state government will be working along with ISB for growth monitoring and economic recovery especially post COVID-19.

The Andhra Pradesh Government and the Indian School of Business (ISB) are all set to work together towards economic development and job creation in the state in the post COVID-19 era.  The AP Economic Development Board, on behalf of the state government will be working along with ISB for growth monitoring and economic recovery especially post COVID-19. During an online event, the AP government and ISB signed an agreement regarding the same. According to an official notification released regarding the same, the collaboration will also work on projects such as “high-frequency high-resolution indicators for monitoring economic recovery in Andhra Pradesh’, a project on ‘Visakhapatnam’ as an engine of growth, focus on ‘food processing sector’ in Rayalaseema.”

With this agreement, steps will be taken for the improvement of e-governance and data analytics. The government also intends to strengthen the informal sector growth and reshape the skilling programs. Establishment of a policy lab called “GoAP-ISB Policy Lab”, (a public policy laboratory to drive evidence-based policy decisions) will also be paved under this agreement.

A knowledge bank will be created with this policy lab for strategic planning, policy analysis, data analytics and action-research need to boost the economy.

“The lab is modeled in the lines of policy lab in the UK cabinet would enable greater synergistic functioning of departments and work towards the objective of economic monitoring, recovery, and development,” the statement added.

Talking about the government’s agreement with ISB, Mekapati Goutham Reddy, minister for industries, commerce, IT, and SDT stated, “We are working with ISB for the past few months on identifying various areas of collaboration. Today we are onboarding ISB as our knowledge partner to work on various initiatives in skill development, e-governance, turning Vishakhapatnam into a growth engine, improving value addition in food processing.”

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