Insights & Resources

The Corridor Library.

Every white paper, research report, commentary, and diplomatic resource ICCCD produces on the India-CARICOM corridor — in one place. Read what each paper argues, then request the full document.

ICCCD White Paper Series

White Papers

Three papers. One argument, made to three audiences. To receive the full white paper, share your details through our request form and the Secretariat will send it to you.

01
Published
April 2026
Audience
Indian businesses, investors, family offices, government

The Caribbean Opportunity

India's $50 Billion Untapped Trade and Investment Frontier

A strategic investor thesis arguing that the India-CARICOM corridor is the most underpriced South-South trade route in the world. India-CARICOM trade sits at roughly $1.5-2 billion against a regional GDP of ~$100 billion — a corridor that should be at least ten times its current size.

  • Six findings on the state of the India-Caribbean economic corridor and where the opportunity lies
  • Why the 15-member CARICOM bloc is now investable as a single market — one regulatory entry opens fourteen others
  • The Guyana wealth effect: 19.3% growth in 2025, forecast 16.2% in 2026, and why it lifts the whole region
  • How the CARICOM-India 7-pillar framework signed in November 2024 changes the diplomatic architecture
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02
Published
April 2026
Audience
Caribbean governments, multilaterals, sectoral investors

After the Oil

Building the Caribbean's Non-Extractive Economy with India

An argument for diversification. Including Guyana, the Caribbean grew 4.7% in 2025 — excluding it, just 0.6%. This paper argues the Guyana boom is a window, not a destination, and that the region has 5 to 8 years to build a non-extractive economy on top of the oil-extractive one.

  • The case in seven points: two economies, one headline — and the structural crisis the headline hides
  • Why the resource curse is not a hypothesis, and what fifty years of petro-economy booms teach the Caribbean
  • Climate vulnerability as a structural, not episodic, risk — Hurricane Melissa removed 3 points of Jamaican GDP in days
  • Why India is the most credible diversification partner available to the region right now
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03
Published
April 2026
Audience
The Indo-Caribbean diaspora, global media, cultural and philanthropic capital

Heritage Capital

How the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora Is Becoming the Caribbean's Most Strategic Asset

A diaspora thesis — and the first attempt anywhere to quantify the global Indo-Caribbean community as a structural economic asset. Roughly three million people, spanning Georgetown, Port of Spain, Toronto, Queens, Miami, and London, with twelve years to the 2038 Bicentenary to become a structural force in the region's trajectory.

  • Heritage Capital defined: the four functions — financial, human, political, and cultural — and why each is measurable
  • The most globally distributed Indian diaspora that exists: 1.25M in home countries, 750K across the wealthy Western diaspora
  • Why no other capital provider — China, the US, the EU, or Brazil — has access to all four functions
  • The 12-year window to the 2038 Bicentenary and what it decides
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Commentaries

Thought Leadership

Article
Leading the Way to a New Era of Partnership
By Shivdutt Das, President & Founding Member

The relationship between India and the Caribbean is rooted not only in trade, but in shared history, culture, resilience, and progress. ICCCD exists to transform that legacy into meaningful economic collaboration, innovation, and opportunity.

Article
A Bridge of Shared Heritage and Strategic Growth
By Kaushik Sundararajan, Director & Spokesperson

The India–CARICOM partnership represents a powerful new chapter in South–South cooperation. Built on shared heritage, mutual respect, and a common vision for development, this relationship is now expanding across trade, energy, agriculture, healthcare, infrastructure, technology, and capacity-building.

News & Press Releases

Latest Updates

Announcement
ICCCD Formally Established as India's First Dedicated India-CARICOM Trade Chamber
The Indo-Caribbean Chamber of Commerce & Development launches as the premier institutional platform for bilateral trade and investment.

Incorporated 19 March 2026 as a Section 8 not-for-profit company under the Companies Act, 2013.

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2026 Research Programme

One Release Per Quarter

Q1
Artificial Intelligence & Information Technology

Digital systems, AI capability, and technology-led growth across the corridor.

Q2
Healthcare

Affordable care, pharma access, and health-system resilience.

Q3
Public Infrastructure

Ports, roads, logistics, energy, and urban development.

Q4
Education

Skills, higher education, and future workforce partnerships.

Four papers. Four quarters. One corridor intelligence platform.

Research & Media Enquiries

For custom research requests, press resources, official statements, or leadership interview access, contact the ICCCD Secretariat.