High growth, high risk: Growth will be brisk but major challenges range from inflation to BJP losing nerve on reforms
The International Monetary Fund has projected India’s GDP growth at 9.5% in 2021 and 8.5% in 2022, making it the
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The Economic Times
Piketty’s super-rich tax is not going to end inequality
The World Inequality Report 2022, drafted by French economist Thomas Piketty and his colleague, once again highlights high and growing
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Farm retreat casts doubt on other economic reforms
It is a defeat for economic sense and a victory for undeserving vote banks. Far from acting as the autocrat
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Right climate for Indian investment in green tech
As a young journalist I learned not to take Five Year Plans seriously. Fancy plan targets were routinely missed but
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Why India needs more startup crorepatis
Globalisation and the spread of giant digital companies have fuelled fears of excessive concentration of wealth and power in a
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Why Pegasus is just the tip of the iceberg
A global media investigation has revealed that Pegasus, a telephone hacking software invented in Israel and supposedly sold only to
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Investor warning: Unicorns can go bust too
I have written twice already on the rise of unicorns, unlisted companies valued at over a billion dollars each. The
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1991 reforms gave us miracle growth, but now it’s fading
When Manmohan Singh launched economic liberalization in 1991, India was the world’s biggest beggar for aid. Today India is a
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2051: Richer, fractured, a light-hearted look at what India may turn out to be 30 years from now
Readers may be bored with lengthy, learned analyses of 30 years of Indian economic reform, starting with Manmohan Singh’s budget
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