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Ajit Ranade: West Asia's upheaval intensifies India's challenges of geopolitics

New Delhi, June 15 -- The world crossed a dangerous threshold on 13 June. Israel attacked Iran, targeting nuclear facilities, military bases and even residential zones in order to kill top military le... Read More


Ajit Ranade: The success of 'Made in China 2025' alarmed the West

New Delhi, June 2 -- An after-effect of the global financial crisis of 2008 was that by the following year, China's exports dropped by 16%. This led to widespread factory closures and mass layoffs in ... Read More


Ajit Ranade: Decode Trump's trade strategy for India's own game plan

New Delhi, May 18 -- The US and China have agreed to a 90-day truce in their trade war, with the former reducing tariffs from 145% to 30% on Chinese imports and the latter cutting them from 125% to 10... Read More


Ajit Ranade: RBI's increasing fiscal support deserves a closer look

New Delhi, May 6 -- The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) primary job is to protect the value of the rupee: i.e. domestic price stability. Since the 2016 pact between the central bank and the government, ... Read More


Ajit Ranade: India must diversify its exports of manufactured goods

New Delhi, April 21 -- Indian data on the export of goods is reported more promptly than of services. This is because customs declaration and port formalities capture the data in real-time and a ready... Read More


Ajit Ranade: The decline of trade orthodoxy and rise of anti-free-traders

New Delhi, April 7 -- Imagine two countries that trade with each other. Let's assume that country A has a permanent trade deficit with country B. Over a long period of time, say three or four decades,... Read More