Tackling the Inevitable: The Need for New Economic Ideas in the Time of Coronavirus The machines have stopped. The...
The Missing Politics of Inequality Inequality is an inevitable outcome of economic growth. Only its extent can be kept...
Innovation is an idea that is often misunderstood. Innovation does not necessarily mean invention. It can also be doing...
There will be several gains for India to make for itself by resolving the trade equations with the US. ...
Strategies for Innovation Innovation is an idea that is often discussed but equally misunderstood. In simple terms, innovation is...
Budget 2020: Cutting the Fiscal Restraints There were a lot of expectations riding on the Budget this year as...
The Need for Gender Budgeting The progress of a nation is inextricably linked with the status of its women....
Breaking India’s Resource Curse India has an abundance of mineral deposits with the country producing over ninety different types...
Asia’s Second Coming For the majority of human history, Asia has been the economic powerhouse of the world. Prior...
India’s Worrying Growth Statistics and What They Mean for the Future The Indian economy grew at 4.5 percent in...
Can Asia regain its former glory? For most of human history – or as far as data can tell...
The wave of resentment The world today is witnessing a pattern of resentment with multiple outbreaks taking place across...
The Asian Divergence Back in October 1949, when India was framing its constitution that would make it a democratic...
The diplomatic ties between India and Pakistan are at a new low with Pakistan trying to drum up international...
As income levels across the world rose in the past decades, so did income inequality. In 2016, more than...
What India can Learn from China’s 70 Years of Economic Growth? China celebrated the 70th anniversary of becoming a communist...
The need of humans to develop at the fastest pace and surpass all its competitors, has led to indiscriminate...
Game theoretic approach to India-Pakistan conflict The tensions between India and Pakistan refuse to abate. Ties between the two...
Role of Social Progress Index in measuring SDG’s In this highly competitive and fast-growing world, every individual wants to...
Missing female labour force: India could lose out on economic dividends with inadequate job creation
India has been undergoing a curious trend. It was expected that India’s young demographic would pay significant dividends as...
Is Liberal Democracy Under Threat? Amit Kapoor Every century has its own defining moment. For the nineteenth century, it...
The Dynamics of India’s Growth Recession The crisis brewing within the Indian economy has gained unanimous acceptance by now....
Climate Change: How it led to an Unequal World When a sixteen-year-old girl who has avowed air travel has...
Arun Jaitley: A political journey By the time Indira Gandhi declared the Emergency on June 26, 1975, Arun Jaitley...
Education and its economic outgrowths In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the issue of population...
Article 370 to be revoked: Move to make Jammu and Kashmir less dependent on Centre for funds While the...
Enabling Cities as Drivers of Economic Growth Economic development always comes with a dash of urbanization. That is almost an...
Data as a Driver of the Indian Economy While oil was the central resource around which the world revolved...
Economic remedies for water crisis While contemplating our natural resources, conversations in the past often centered around fossil fuels...
Measuring Child Progress A society’s future is inextricably intertwined with its children. How they survive, grow and thrive determine...
Budget 2019: Kickstarting India’s developmental journey Since the time Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a bold target of...
Focus Area within New Education Policy Even though India boasts of universalisation of primary education, with almost 100 per...
Tackling Trade Tensions The trade war between US and China seemed like a distant conflict to most Indians. As...
The Budget and Beyond How does one determine the finances of a country where the growth rate is slowing,...
India’s unemployment rate at 6.1 percent of the total labour force during 2017-18 is at a 45-year high. But...
It’s time for the BJP government to introduce long-standing structural reforms After the BJP won a tally of 282...
An Innovative Solution to the Job Crisis The fact that unemployment levels in India at 6.1 percent are at...
Cartels and collusion – will the cycle ever stop? The Indian pharmaceutical industry has become almost synonymous with the...
Are Indian Tariffs Really High? The Trump-driven trade war does not seem to relent. In the latest development, US...
Debt resolution process should aim at keeping a company alive As Jet Airways temporarily suspended its operations after its...
Political parties need to focus on issue-based election campaigning The Indian elections that kicked off on Thursday is a...
Rather than NYAY, strengthen public services landscape The idea of launching Nyuntam Aay Yojana, a cash transfer scheme that...
Reducing gender inequalities in education Better outcomes for businesses and society The benefits of diversity in the workforce are...
Digital tools looking like democracy’s nemesis At the onset of the digital revolution, there was a high expectation that...
Biotechnology can be Indian economy’s next success story Over the last two-to-three decades, the major success story of the...
Towards creating a healthier and more productive India The last four years of the Narendra Modi government have seen...
Can the UGC’s recent Quality Assurance Strategies Address Challenges in Open Distance Learning Education in India? Considering the significant...
As was being expected, the interim Budget presented by Piyush Goyal was not a traditional vote-on-account by any means....
The age of awakening: The story of the Indian economy India is an elaborate mix of contradictions and complexities....
Both China and India, started building their national education systems under comparable conditions in the late 1940s, but varying...
Future prospects for the economy don’t seem promising Even the most optimistic estimates cannot deny that in all likelihood,...
Low student-teacher ratio vs quality of higher education One of the factors influencing the quality of teaching in an...
More private investment in education can improve its productivity Given the limited fiscal space to increase the expenditure on...
Learning from the Past India is an elaborate mix of contradictions and complexities. It is rare to find other...
Reaffirming Faith in the Fight Against Climate Change Conversations in India rarely revolve around the subject of climate change....
Lok Sabha polls in 2019 still anybody’s game, BJP debacle not reflective of national mood The results of the much-awaited...
Salvaging trust after Urjit Patel’s exitS Disagreements between the government and the central bank are a common occurrence in...
Universities should consult industry on designing courses to make students employable Even though the idea of globalisation has come...
Focused higher education can help India capitalise on its demographic dividend While investment in critical social infrastructure like...
Location’s the name of the game In this globalised world, there are many voices cheerleading the belief that location...
Considering Brexit once again Divorces are always messy, but none have so much at stake as the separation of...
Is India’s higher education system future ready? Here’s a view As the world stands on the brink of the...
Time now to breathe life into the country’s languishing business environment In a refreshing change of pace for the...
India in dire need of long-term growth strategy The 2019 general election is now just months away. This means...
India’s economic growth not inclusive enough, inequality rises The Indian growth story has been far from perfect. That is...
Carbon pricing: How politics makes implementation difficult In a curious happenstance last week, two global events put the spotlight...
Jawaharlal Nehru should be understood in the context of his times, not ours It would hardly be an exaggeration...
How to bridge India’s tech-induced skill gap The world stands on the brink of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, powered...
Learning from diversity in regulation Pawan Agarwal and Amit Kapoor discuss how regulation impacts the economic as well as...
Post Maruti-Suzuki departure, Gurugram needn’t go the Detroit way Cities and regions always have a variety of factors that...
How global financial crisis of 2008 hurt liberal democracy, open borders Exactly ten years ago on 15 September 2008,...
Rupee crashes past 72: Currency mayhem signals a deeper problem; India must think long-term, find solutions within The Indian...
Shifting to SDRs would unshackle global central banks of forex woes It is no secret that the international monetary...
India needs to rethink its currency management The economy is a fickle beast. Exactly a year ago, the rupee,...
The great divide: How inclusive growth still eludes India Inequality and lack of access to public goods and services...
The Age of Awakening It took just over seven decades after the British left India, but recent growth trends...
India needs to drastically reform higher education in rapidly digitising world As India gets close to celebrating its 72nd Independence...
A movement to make India eat safer, healthier food India is under a terrible burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs),...
Long road ahead to ending hunger, malnutrition The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) incorporate zero hunger as one of the 17 targets to...
Paving the way towards prosperity with global migration Last week, after more than a year of intense negotiations, United...
How to push India’s competitiveness Social and economic progress are the two pillars on which a country’s competitiveness stands...
Monopolies in digital space are bad for media and entertainment industry It was not very long ago that the daily...
Competitiveness and the path to a prosperous India Are most of the nations able to keep up the economic...
India staring down the barrel of a major water crisis Shimla and Bangalore are two very disparate cities. One...
Crisis of confidence in banking system provides an opportunity to unleash reforms India’s banking sector has been hogging the...
In an era of productivity slowdown, India has entered AI arena at perfect time The current global economy is...
Quebec, Qingdao and the new age of multilateralism The contrasting events that transpired in the cities of Quebec and Qingdao over the weekend...
Agriculture and Allied Activities – Pushing Competitiveness The farmers across the nation are on a 10-day strike, cutting off...
Bangladesh could well march past India on the growth path India has had an unfortunate history of losing out to...
Lessons from Karnataka The drama revolving around the Karnataka state elections refuses to fade away. The assembly election results...
Taking Competitiveness to next level The new Karnataka government will need to take innovation out of Bengaluru to kick...
Oil prices: Government between a rock and a hard place Just as the Indian economy was limping back to normalcy after...
India’s Coming Productivity Crisis Economic growth originates from two main sources. The first lies in getting more people to...
Strict KYC for digital payments = death of India’s digitalisation push? In a situation that is all too familiar...
Probit regression model can almost accurately predict election outcomes Before India goes in for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections,...
Is the Economy Out of the Woods Yet? By all estimates, the Indian economy has entered into a phase of recovery. After...
The Global Debt Problem Any undergraduate student of economics would vouch for the fact that an economy in a...
Times are changing and ideas for economic growth need to keep up All economies want to produce more within...
Trade War Fears and the Emerging Market Resilience The much-dreaded trade war has come dangerously close to fruition after...
It’s All About Productivity Only sustained productivity growth can raise living standards It is quite commonplace to hear the...
