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The under-appreciated economic miracle of education in Asia and beyond The emerging world was poor and illiterate just forty years ago. Today, over 70 per cent of the global middle class resides in the erstwhile poor countries. Much more than...
The world is on course for good growth, low inflation, lower taxation and increased income support for the needy. And yes – declining global inequality.
Here is a modest proposal to bring about much-needed accountability to the decisions of the RBI (and MPC): Let the RBI governor be questioned by Parliament twice a year
The first year of operation of the Monetary Policy Committee has imposed considerable costs on the economy with very few benefits. What explains its decisions?
A forthcoming book explains that inflation, which haunted the world in the Seventies and the Eighties, is now only a windmill to be tilted at
It was about both politics and economics. It is an acknowledged political success and early ‘returns’ indicate an economic success story as well.
Surveys on hunger suggest that like poverty, it is more a relative, than absolute, concept. The best policy to increase nutrition is via sanitation and clean water.
We all have a choice — we can either debate evidence, or manufacture conclusions
Inflation is down by 700 bp since 2013, and policy rates have declined by 200bp — and you are still wondering why GDP growth is slow?
In India we have a monetary authority that admits to not understanding inflation — but persists in damaging an already weak economy because it does not understand it