Traditional data cannot capture the fantastic growth of globalisation through digital services. Much of it is free, and traditional statistics simply cannot capture the invaluable addition to human welfare through free services. ChatGPT has even made AI available to billions […]
Do not mourn the death of globalisation — like it or not, it is alive and kicking Read More »
Developing countries have contributed very little to the total greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Why should they not be able to produce what the rich countries produced to become rich? Climate summits are occasions for massive hypocrisy. COP28 in Dubai has just
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COP28 is discussing reforms of global food systems but the western argument for locavorism is actually protectionism in disguise. The current climate summit in Dubai, called COP28, will once again call for a wide range of measures to save the earth. Because of
Why West’s local food fad can’t save the planet Read More »
The entire world economy has defied pessimists, and 2023 is turning out to be a much better year than expected. The good news will spill over into 2024. Hence, one can expect markets to rise across the world. Emerging markets
Economist and columnist Swaminathan Aiyar said that global investors have to some extent already factored in a Narendra Modi victory in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. India is a new locomotive that is taking the place of China, says Swaminathan
India now seen as new kind of locomotive taking China’s place: Swaminathan Aiyar Read More »
Bollywood spies make for hit films but in real life, killing terrorists only creates martyrs Bollywood has glamourised Indian secret service agents. Bollywood stars like Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan are so irresistible in spy films that even Pakistani secret agents
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Bangladesh has long overtaken India in life expectancy, fertility, child mortality, sanitation, school participation and gender equality. And now Nepal, with a per capita income half of India’s, has also begun to surge ahead India is falling behind other countries
Why Nepal and Bangladesh are beating India in social indicators Read More »
It is the largest economy in South Asia, but it’s not the best-off. Important lessons, not just for India but also its neighbours, based on per capita incomes from 1980 to 2023 The Government of India boasts that India is
It’s a fact – India’s people are still poorer than Lanka, Bangladesh Read More »
India can afford more freebies than the others without creating a crisis. Yet, it is sobering that India’s people remain poorer than others in South Asia, even as the country claims to be a rising superpower. GoI boasts that India
A sobering fact: In per capita income terms, India doesn’t lead even in South Asia Read More »
Art historian Ranjit Hoskote has been accused of anti-semitism. The charge is being increasingly used by the West to muzzle any critique of Israel’s actions in Gaza I am appalled that art historian Ranjit Hoskote had to resign from the
Israel: Silencing critics new form of McCarthyism Read More »
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