Martin Kessler And Arvind Subramanian

All stories by Martin Kessler And Arvind Subramanian

Trump Tariffs: How Must India Respond?
Rediff.com12 Mar 2025

India should convert the Trump threat to an India opportunity, re-embracing a more...

Manmohan vs Modi Debate: India Is The Loser
Rediff.com19 Feb 2024

False and acrimonious debates such as Modi versus Manmohan might allow for victories...

Is The Economy Growing Or Slowing?
Rediff.com18 Sep 2023

A careful reading of the national income accounts suggests that after a strong recovery...

Aristotle Would Have Envied Ivan
Rediff.com8 Jun 2023

'I think my first obsessive, possessive and only half-requited -- as we would joke --...

India becoming a Global Chess Superpower
Rediff.com1 Sep 2021

Since 2012, 44 Indians have been anointed as grandmasters -- the highest achievement in...

GST needs a political fix, not a legal one
Rediff.com10 Sep 2020

This is a moment when the leaders at the Centre and states must show true leadership...

How India can address the Great Slowdown
Rediff.com2 Jan 2020

'The current budgetary practice of shifting expenditures off-balance sheet in order to...

Universal Basic Income? Telangana has the answer
Rediff.com24 Jul 2018

Telangana's Rythu Bandhu policy is an embryonic UBI, or rather embryonic QUBI (a...

Doubly blessed are we to be alive in the Roger-Rafa era
Rediff.com28 Jun 2018

'We are truly blessed to bear witness to the divine talents of, and scarcely human...

If the GST has to really work...
Rediff.com5 Apr 2017

The GST has been a great achievement, but it does suffer from weaknesses, says Chief...

Why RBI needs to monitor liquidity carefully
Rediff.com6 May 2016

the RBI will need to fulfil its April 4 pledge to avoid liquidity shortages.

'Make in India' not by protecting but by eliminating negative protectionism
Rediff.com1 May 2015

In part four of a series, Arbind Modi & Arvind Subramanian explain how scrapping the...

India must learn from China to revive its ailing railways
Rediff.com24 Apr 2015

Indian Railways has to up investment to strengthen network just like China and Russia.

Experts list few things that will be different in FY16
Rediff.com17 Apr 2015

India will have to devise policies to ensure overall growth in FY16.

5 vital questions on India's credit
Rediff.com10 Apr 2015

India's credit and banking are neither too big nor too small.

Decoding Budget with the Chief Economic Adviser
Rediff.com1 Mar 2015

The Budget would preserve macro-economic stability.

Are India's tactics against the WTO pact sensible?
Rediff.com30 Jul 2014

India is threatening to block the World Trade Organization (WTO)'s trade facilitation...

Why it is important for the RBI to arrest rupee fall
Rediff.com23 Jun 2014

And with prices low, the equilibrium real exchange rate will also be low, that is to...

Need of the hour: Reform in public sector banks will ensure growth
Rediff.com13 Mar 2014

Privatising public sector companies would have encountered significant opposition from...

UPA and the economic consequences of Amartya Sen
Rediff.com10 Jul 2013

One may fault this government for incompetence, corruption, and delayed action but it...