New Delhi, Oct. 8 -- The global order is increasingly characterised by power and bargaining rather than rules, requiring India to negotiate from a position of strength and build coalitions it can help influence, the government's top economic adviser said, identifying five factors that would test the country's ambition of becoming a developed economy by 2047.

These five long-term shifts, including geopolitical realignment, strategic supply-chain chokepoints, China's manufacturing scale, climate variability, and the interplay between demography and artificial intelligence (AI), will shape India's path to becoming a rich nation by the centenary of its independence, Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) V. Anantha Nageswaran said on Thursday.

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