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Economic Downturn in India: Need for Clarity in Policymaking

Published in The Economic Times Emerging market business cycles differ from business cycles in developed countries in one significant way...

Economic Downturn, Policy Making and Recovery in India

Published in the Economic Times In the last two decades, we have made some progress in understanding business cycles, both in emerging as...

Economic Power, Trade Wars and Globalization

Published in the Financial Express What does it mean to have Economic Power in a world which is interconnected like never before and...

Capacity and quality of higher education need to be transformed

Published in https://www.moneycontrol.com/ Some of my thoughts on the draft new education policy. One big question is how do we balance...

Capacity and quality of higher education need to be transformed

Teaching and research cannot remain separated; we will have to bring research back to the universities. Read more. Published on...

Let's not wall ourselves in

Published in the Economic Times It is for the first time in years that all major economies are experiencing positive growth. Giant...

GST and the differential effects across states

Published in The Economic Times India made the biggest tax system reform in its history when it transitioned to the goods and service tax...

Shocks and Policies: How will 2017 shape up

Published in Business Today 2017 will be a year to watch. Not because I expect some watershed event to happen, but because of what...

Trump's election: Is Globalization to be blamed?

Published in BusinessInsider.in 2016 will surely go down as a watershed year in more ways than one. Violence across the world remains...

Brexit – will it change our way of life?

Published in Huffingtonpost.in. When a person living in Pata, a small town in Uttar Pradesh, buys a Canon camera from Amazon and posts a...

NPAs and Bad Debt in Indian Banks

Published in The Indian Economist. One economics and business related news that has shocked the nation in recent times is that of the...

Ups and downs of Singdollar and interest rates

Published in Straits Times, Singapore. To read, please click here.