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India's fertiliser output rises in April but still short of normal level

India, May 21 -- War-related disruption to India's fertiliser production eased significantly between March and April, though output remains below normal levels. This is the key takeaway from core sect... Read More


India fertiliser output rises in April but still short of normal level

new delhi, May 21 -- War-related disruption to India's fertiliser production eased significantly between March and April, though output remains below normal levels. This is the key takeaway from core ... Read More


India fertiliser output rises in April but still short of normal level

new delhi, May 21 -- War-related disruption to India's fertiliser production eased significantly between March and April, though output remains below normal levels. This is the key takeaway from core ... Read More


The manufacturing roots of India's trade deficit | Number Theory

India, May 20 -- The external situation-in terms of the falling exchange rate, bearish foreign portfolio flows, and the ongoing energy supply shock-continues to be grim. It would not be, if India did ... Read More


Terms of Trade: Reforms, reality and rationality

India, May 20 -- This year marks 35 years since India embraced large-scale economic reforms. India had been moving toward economic liberalisation since the 1980s, but the quantum jump occurred when th... Read More


The trade part of India's external balance story post-reform | Number Theory

India, May 18 -- A falling rupee, outbound portfolio investment and sluggish foreign direct investment are flashing amber on India's external accounts dashboard. If the ongoing oil shock persists and ... Read More


Terms of Trade: Can the Opposition reinvent itself?

India, May 15 -- It is useful to begin this column by highlighting a commonality between the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) chief ministers in Assam, Bihar and West Bengal. Combined, these states have... Read More


Understanding India's external account challenge | Number Theory

India, May 13 -- "The West Asia crisis is not a foreign policy concern that occasionally bleeds into economic planning but a live balance-of-payments stress test with direct consequences for inflation... Read More


Rahul Gandhi's politics of fruitless opportunism

India, May 7 -- It is useful to begin with recent chronology. The Congress fought the elections in Tamil Nadu as a junior partner of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). It fought in West Bengal again... Read More


Terms of Trade: And then there were none

India, May 4 -- To pre-empt self-fulfilling liberal alibis tending toward epitaphs of Indian democracy, let me begin this column with a caveat that paraphrases Carl von Clausewitz's famous quote on wa... Read More