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To continue to lead, India must press harder on the reforms pedal, and celebrate the small victories in the ongoing economic world war
In light of Africa's increasing dependency on and trouble with Chinese actors, African leaders are beginning to look beyond China in an attempt to diversify. India and the long-standing presence of Indian businesses in the continent can help Africa deal with the losses from China.
This double whammy will pose a challenge to those at the bottom of the income pyramid
Even though the government seems to be addressing concerns ailing the economy, the slowdown seems to be deeper than what the numbers suggest.
Despite the demographic dividend and young population, whose median age is 27.1 — India is getting old before it is getting rich.
India has to increase the confidence of the Foreign Portfolio Investors who have been withdrawing from the Indian stock market in droves.
India’s Maldives initiative of the UN kind, as reported in a section of the media, could reopen old wounds in the neighbourhood, where the political
In the slowdown scenario, it would be important for the government to protect the poor against job losses, ill-health, lack of skills and homelessness. The human development indicators have to be improved.
India needs an effective policy package to reverse its economic slowdown and also tackle the growing unemployment rates.
It needs to be understood that no policy for supply chain resilience will be complete without accounting for China as a supplier in the short term
Recent headlines show India's renewable energy, especially solar, is slowing despite optimism. The government's coal focus hints at a shift.
Can India jumpstart its economy by expanding bilateral trade relations with the US to reverse negative economic trends?
While in India, China and many other countries, the main worry is the inflation, the US, the biggest economy in the world, is not facing inflation but a colossal public debt which crossed the government's stipulated limit recently. Currently the US debt stands at $14.6 trillion.
The country won’t have the resources required to modernise and equip the armed forces, or the wherewithal to project power in its neighbourhood and beyond.
Lukashenko’s social contract with the people — offering loyalty in exchange for economic prosperity, is in tatters.
The world of BRICS is expanding. Despite setbacks, this association of Brazil,Russia, India, China and South Africaall of them important, emerging-marketeconomiesremains relevant as it continues to comprise a big share of the world's population,its resources, and global trade. This paper describes the rise of BRICS and their growing mutualinterest in cementing their economic and political ties. It argues that while problems remain inpromoting coh
As Chinese economy is facing its worst slowdown in recent times, for Africa, Modi's new India might turn out to be the one viable alternative to China. Therefore, the upcoming India-Africa Summit will be an occasion to harness this opportunity and seek a meaningful strategic engagement beneficial to both the countries.
This article attempts to put forth alternatives that could better India’s fight against China’s economic monopoly and envisage a plausible route t
The slowdown in the Chinese economy due to the recent surge has made the global economy quite vulnerable
In India, a prime factor for the slowdown in the solar photovoltaics (PV) sector in 2018 was the implementation of the safeguard duty on imported sola
Petroleum consumption for the year was recorded the lowest in August.
For India, which is also experiencing declining growth rates in the last couple of years, the priority at the forthcoming G-20 summit at St Petersberg would be issues including the spillover of the global slowdown on emerging economies as well as quota reforms of the International Monetary Fund.
Growth in agriculture has registered a slowdown at 1.7 per cent, which means there will be problems in the rural areas.
India’s agrarian crisis has deepened in the past several years, contributing to the slowdown of the economy. Amongst the most crucial factors affecting the country’s agricultural sector is financial inclusion. Over the years, India has attempted various measures to narrow the gap in financial inclusion for its farmers, yet the goal continues to elude the country. This paper presents a discussion of these measures, outlining the current state
The year 2022 saw the global economic outlook deteriorate amidst high inflation, fiscal tightening, and supply chain uncertainties arising from both the Russia-Ukraine war and the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic. Global Gross Domestic Product (GDP), after expanding by some 5 percent in 2021, contracted in the first half of 2022. This brief makes a case for gender lens investing (GLI) as a means to boost women’s participation in economic act
The purpose is to create, through law, a permanent threat to hang over every single Muslim head in India
There has been a large decline in the labour force participation of women.
Our biggest challenges will emerge from domestic politics.
The global economic slowdown presents an opportunity for the Indian industry to work on low cost medicines
Myanmar, which shares a border with four of India’s north-eastern states—Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Manipur, and Nagaland—is crucial to the country’s ‘Act East’ policy. India has a number of projects with Myanmar in the pipeline, seeking to improve physical connectivity through transport links, which in turn can assist in both countries’ development goals. Since the military coup in Myanmar on 1 February 2021, the country has been
The virus is only going to make a growth slowdown caused by declining investment even worse.
The large turnout of youth and the civil society despite the central and state government’s determined efforts like large scale arrests of political
The visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to India this week, so early in the Modi innings, is a good sign as both leaderships seem anxious to be able to better deal with the many challenges ahead. Clearly, China is challenging other major powers for a role in India at a time when its economy needs to grow at 10 per cent to recover from three years of economic slowdown.
The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a major slowdown in India, but its inherent resilience and capabilities will help it transform into a new India with
Savings is an important feature of the economy, affecting both — the individual and economy’s macroeconomic factors.
“A simple take on the 4 Ps of the #Covid19 crisis”, and its impact on the retail investors.
This paper examines the pre-pandemic slowdown, and subsequent contraction, in Indian economy. Utilising an analysis of broad macroeconomic and sectoral fundamentals, the paper argues that a notable lack of consumption and investment demand had already persisted before the pandemic; COVID-19 heightened those trends. Henceforth, India’s economic revival will be crucially dependent on demand generation by direct government fiscal intervention. The
