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On the Indian economy, with a reference to MMT thrown in. If Ramanan sees this, perhaps he will comment.Financial Express (India)Ability to grow amid global declining trend a hallmark of IndiaSushim Banerjee

The expiration of US waivers on sanctions targeting Iran and its foreign trade partners ends this Thursday. This will affect India, China, Japan, S. Korea and Turkey. While China is currently the largest purchaser of Iranian crude oil, both India and China have warned that such a step could destabilise the global energy market and the Middle East.... Sputnik InternationalIndia-China Oil Bloc Proposal a Good Step, Say Energy Analysts

AbstractThis paper focuses on the different development strategies of China and India, particularly regarding the role of manufacturing and services, for long-run productivity growth, external competitiveness and financial fragility. The findings appear to support the argument that productivity improvements in manufacturing drive productivity improvements in other sectors. They also substantiate previous findings that the Indian services-led growth trajectory has had limited success in...

The Indian economy is in a tailspin. This cannot be attributed only to innocence in economic matters of the command-centre of the NDA government. While that is indubitably a contributing factor, the current travails of the economy point to something deeper, namely the dead-end to which neo-liberalism has brought the economy. Without moving away from the neo-liberal trajectory, the economy cannot come out of its current difficulties.... Neoliberal solutions that rely on only a few factors,...

Andhra Pradesh is playing catch-up.World Economic Forum The Indian miracle state pointing the way to global sustainability Suchi Kedia and Ian Cronin

Short review of FT’s former Mumbai bureau chief James Crabtree’s The Billionaire Raj. The theme of the book is corruption, and its co-evolution with the Indian economy as the ‘licence raj’ restrictions were progressively removed, and new sectors like telecoms grew dramatically. In this new world, the super-wealthy businessmen and the politicians found they needed each other: the deployment of legislation and contracts helped the former, the opportunity to take part in business helped the...

This is a big deal. Rural electrification made huge difference in the US less than a hundred years ago. We now take for granted.This is a sine qua non for becoming a developed country.India rising.While the West has a class system,  India has a caste system. The class system is insidious since it is invisible, but the caste system is highly visible and structured in long standing tradition with scriptural roots. This obstacle cannot be address by throwing money at it.ReutersIndia says...

Income disparity in India has become even more stark, showing that efforts to alleviate poverty and achieve more inclusive growth have had little success. A survey carried out recently by international rights group Oxfam revealed that the richest 1% in India cornered 73% of wealth generated in the country last year, Press Trust of India has reported. A similar survey last year showed that India’s richest 1% held 58% of the country’s total wealth — higher than the global figure of about...

Will the 21st century be the Asian century? The growing importance of Asia's major economies will continue in 2018 and beyond, according to a league table that sees the region dominating in terms of size in just over a decade. The report by the Centre for Economics and Business Research in London sees India leapfrogging the UK and France next year to become the world's fifth-biggest economy in dollar terms. It will advance to third place by 2027, moving ahead of Germany. In 2032, three of...

It’s getting easier to do business in India. That’s not a boast by the Modi government, but something “confirmed” by the World Bank’s latest global survey on Doing Business. Informal reports over recent weeks had suggested India would score a better grade than the 142nd ranking the country got in the DB report in 2015, the cut-off date for which was June 1, 2014 – just a week after Narendra Modi took over as prime minister. In just three years India has jumped a massive 42 ranks higher,...