Arvind Panagariya

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He is professor, Columbia University

He is professor, Columbia University

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• The US deal doesn’t compromise national interest, but brings us big benefits of trade liberalisation

  
  16 Feb 2026 10:59 PM IST
• View: Six reforms that can complete India’s trade liberalisation story

  
  18 Jan 2026 11:20 PM IST
• The fate of Trump tariffs and US trade agreements, including with India, hangs in balance

  
  06 Nov 2025 11:24 PM IST
• Manmohan Singh: A scholar, patriot, perseverer, and PM

  
  29 Dec 2024 11:04 PM IST
• Why should reforms now be a problem? Freebies, promised or delivered, didn’t work. Labour, trade, education & privatisation reforms await

  
  05 Jun 2024 01:04 AM IST
• Get ready for an era of growth-fuelling reforms: Arvind Panagariya, Chairman, 16th Finance Commission

  
  31 Dec 2023 11:28 PM IST
• View: How PM Modi successfully turned Indian presidency into the people’s G20

  
  6 mins read20 Sep 2023
• Budget 2023: Economic good, political good

  
  02 Feb 2023 11:11 PM IST
• It's a yin-yang boomerang: Sanctions on China could end up hurting India more

  
  6 mins read2 Jan 2023
• Gujarat model, a new season

  
  11 Dec 2022 11:33 PM IST
• Freeing the white elephants: Why privatisation of public banks can only be good

  
  6 mins read6 Oct 2022
• How India's economic interest is better served by letting rupee weaken

  
  6 mins read26 Sep 2022
• Three challenges that need to be managed to make net-zero emissions a reality in India

  
  7 mins read25 Aug 2022
• Modi govt’s biggest achievement: Positive impact of effective delivery

  
  7 mins read2 Jun 2022
• The case against opening the economy wider to free financial capital flows

  
  6 mins read10 Apr 2022
• Arvind Panagariya on why you should ignore the naysayers on economy

  
  6 mins read17 Jan 2022
• Is India safe from US Fed's tapering spree? Arvind Panagariya decodes

  
  6 mins read22 Dec 2021
• View: Nehru's big economic policy mistake that has cost us dearly

  
  19 Aug 2021 10:07 AM IST
• Is Centre's new vaccination policy right? Arvind Panagariya decodes

  
  6 mins read11 Jun 2021
• Arvind Panagariya makes a strong case for a separate ministry of privatisation

  
  6 mins read2 Jun 2021
• View: The multilateral trading system is under stress, member countries must repair it

  
  27 May 2021 11:12 AM IST
• Are patent waivers the best way to boost vaccine production? Arvind Panagariya decodes

  
  6 mins read11 May 2021
• View: Four areas where India acquitted itself well during the COVID-19 pandemic

  
  01 Apr 2021 10:12 AM IST
• View: Modi has established his reformist credentials alongside PMs like Rao and Vajpayee

  
  15 Oct 2020 09:05 AM IST
• Reforms in a Covid era: World trade will rise again. Here’s how India can ready itself to take advantage

  
  27 May 2020 10:45 AM IST
• View: Lockdown keeps outbreak manageable, but there will be hardship ahead

  
  01 Apr 2020 10:23 AM IST
• Higher education revolution: Reforms to make Indian universities world class

  
  06 Mar 2020 11:30 AM IST
• View: The upcoming Budget and other moves will bring the economy back on track

  
  09 Jan 2020 11:01 AM IST
• Is India's growth story over? Not quite. History shows there have been ups and downs in the past too

  
  16 Dec 2019 11:48 AM IST
• View: Govt should exercise caution before it gives in to auto industry's claims

  
  17 Sep 2019 11:11 AM IST
• View: How to make exports boom

  
  26 Jun 2019 10:30 AM IST
• View: Of all Modi’s projects, Swachh Bharat will have the greatest long-term impact on people’s lives

  
  01 May 2019 11:02 AM IST
• View: Expect Modi to repeat 2014 victory

  
  04 Apr 2019 11:11 AM IST
• India’s choices in 2019: Modi has reforms to his credit, UPA free rode on Vajpayee’s reforms

  
  06 Feb 2019 11:39 AM IST
• View: A job glut awaits India that neither protectionists nor robots can stop

  
  14 Nov 2018 11:03 AM IST
• View: Let the rupee depreciate-Why RBI did the right thing in not trying to prop it up artificially

  
  17 Oct 2018 11:00 AM IST
• View: Why some key figures thrown around in India’s jobs debate may not be right

  
  02 May 2018 11:12 AM IST
• Here's what could turn Modi's 'Ayushman Bharat' into a transformational scheme

  
  07 Mar 2018 11:24 AM IST
• Why some vested interests have created a fog around National Medical Commission Bill

  
  06 Feb 2018 07:25 AM IST
• View: What impending doom? Hard data shows India under Modi is flourishing

  
  25 Sep 2017 01:20 PM IST
• Performance of concerted reforms: Arvind Panagariya on three years of Modi sarkar

  
  16 May 2017 01:19 AM IST
• Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan must pass through thickets of reform

  
  15 Nov 2014 11:42 AM IST
• For `Make in India' to realistically take off, labour laws have to be made more flexible

  
  25 Sep 2014 10:51 AM IST
• UPA hurts India as it exits

  
  11 Mar 2014 11:32 AM IST
• Amartya Sen versus Bhagwati debate: Former's prescriptions are limited

  
  26 Aug 2013 05:50 AM IST
• Stiff wage laws hold India from tackling high unemployment and low manufacturing base

  
  24 Jun 2013 04:00 AM IST
• Why the food security Bill will not boost foodgrain consumption for the poor

  
  01 Jun 2013 09:17 AM IST
• No use in blaming multinational retailers for industrial tragedies in Bangladesh

  
  27 May 2013 04:01 AM IST