The first five months of 2023 have witnessed at least six major events/trends that...

The country's demographic dividend is dissipating, with seriously adverse consequences...

The employment situation remains dire. Whatever can be done to promote greater...

Macroeconomic management is usually a lot more comfortable with lower fiscal deficits....

From Covid to climate change, Shankar Acharya's look at some of the trends and events...

The substantially increased economic dualism may exert lasting negative influences...

Expect a more modest out-turn of around 5 per cent (if not less) because of the...

My candidate for the best general of the last century hailed from a little, poor...

India's likely medium-term potential growth will almost certainly be markedly lower...

We will find it difficult to exceed an average of 5 per cent growth in the medium term,...

The budget-making exercise offers golden opportunities despite challenges, observes...

Risk aversion is currently a dominant depressant to economic recovery, points out...

'China need not worry about a truly 'resurgent India'.' 'It's not going to happen.'

'The rise in unemployment, underemployment, discouraged workers and job insecurity is...

'Tax cuts will have only marginal effects in the short run and significant positive...

'The new government will have to contend with slowing economic growth, weak private...

The trio, 'twin shocks' of demonetisation and GST, 'twin balance sheet' problem that...

In its essence, GST is a national level system of value added taxation of goods and...

To do so, the government will have to tackle a number of broad development challenges...

India's fiscal deficit trends are a bit like an alcoholic trying, unsuccessfully, to...