The Economic Times

Reversing liberalisation to counter the bogey of a Chinese takeover of India hurts one entity: India Panicky restrictions look defensible in the short run and ridiculous in the longer run. This is true of the government decision to scrutinise and […]

While India will face inevitable economic headwinds, it must have a protection plan for its people Put on Your Seat Belts The coronavirus and lockdown-induced recession have fuelled huge distress in India. A third connected problem has been the crash

Do not celebrate the crash in oil prices. It is a consequence of the growing coronavirus disaster that threatens a deep global recession. In every recession, commodity prices fall. But that indicates coming pain more than gain. Fiscal and monetary

It’s time this noxious remnant from the British raj against Indians is dumped Last week, 19-year-old Amulya Leona Noronha was arrested for sedition for saying, ‘Pakistan Zindabad’, at a rally against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and National Register of Citizens

After his electoral sweep in May 2019, many called Narendra Modi the new hegemon of India, à la Indira Gandhi. That balloon has been burst by BJP’s thrashing in the Delhi state election. BJP’s strategy of labelling all dissenters as

There are implications from Shaheen Bagh beyond critiquing CAA Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar The Constitution is celebrated on Republic Day, January 26. But its celebration began in Shaheen Bagh, New Delhi, on December 15 in protest against police brutality in

India must buck up and increase its participation in global value chains The latest World Development Report (WDR; bit.do/fo3VE) of the World Bank focuses on global value chains (GVCs), which have become vital for production and trade. Items once designed,

Statisticians are not crooks. But their methodologies do need to change Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar The government has junked the 2017-18 National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) consumption survey which, accordingly to a leaked report, showed total consumption declining by 3.7%

People lie in surveys. Which is why India needs a new methodology to gather data A leaked National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) survey says India’s consumption fell 3.7% between 2011-12 and 2017-18, rural consumption fell 8.8%, and rural food consumption crashed

Indian exports have grown very little since 2013. No economy in the world has had GDP growth of 7% for a long period — the definition of a miracle economy — without double-digit export growth. Hence, the recent fall in