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India must redraw its poverty line to reflect economic progress

New Delhi, April 29 -- India appears to be on the yellow brick road towards an important economic milestone in the next five years. It will likely become an upper middle-income country in 2030, the th... Read More


Spaghetti-bowl trade deals could alter the global balance of power

New Delhi, April 15 -- The first salvo of the ongoing trade war was fired by US President Donald Trump on 2 April. The office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) subsequently released a s... Read More


Keep track of trade turbulence amid a scenario of benign inflation

New Delhi, April 1 -- There is now an overwhelming consensus in financial markets that the six members of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Indian central bank will vote to reduce policy interest r... Read More


Deregulation: Relieve businesses of relics from India's command economy

New Delhi, March 18 -- A recent report by an investment bank says that the three biggest areas of focus on the economic-policy front for the Indian government right now are striking bilateral trade de... Read More


Geopolitics has cast a long shadow on the gravity model of world trade

New Delhi, March 4 -- High-school physics textbooks tell us that the gravitational pull between two objects is determined by three factors-the weight of the two objects, the distance between them and ... Read More


India must not let Trump's tariffs and trade disruption weaken its export thrust

New Delhi, Feb. 18 -- Game theorist Thomas Schelling once wrote that coercion depends more on "the threat of what is yet to come than on damage already done." He added that countries in conflict situa... Read More


Artificial intelligence tools raise productivity. They can also act as great equalizers

New Delhi, Feb. 4 -- A company selling its wares to a wide variety of customers decides to introduce its customer-support staff to a new support tool based on generative artificial intelligence (GenAI... Read More


In economy's shifting sands, a budget to boost demand

New Delhi, Feb. 1 -- The Union budget presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday can be framed against two major shifts in the Indian economy. First, the splendid economic recovery ... Read More