Poor nations are writing a new handbook for getting richThe recipe -- customized in varying ways by Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and China -- has produced the most potent engine the ...
02 Apr, 2024, 11.32 PM IST
We need ‘thin’ globalisation now — this accepts nations having their own agendas and rebalances their autonomy: Dani Rodrik"Many hoped that hyper-globalisation would lead to China becoming more democratic and, in turn, the US and other major powers would become ...
11 Jan, 2024, 09.56 PM IST
Indian economic policy always centred on producer interests: CUTS InternationalCUTS International, a global NGO, celebrated its 40th anniversary with a panel discussion on India's economic progress. The discussion high...
12 Oct, 2023, 11.22 AM IST
Why small businesses in services are better engines of growth than manufacturingManufacturing has a unique ability to lift productivity. To raise the productivity of even the least educated farmworkers, one only needs t...
16 Feb, 2023, 11.29 AM IST
View: ‘Sabka vishwas’ makes sense for country, and BJP’s poll prospects"Modiji, surely you yourself should indicate your willingness to go to the new mosque site and lay the foundation stone for public faciliti...
23 Aug, 2020, 10.36 AM IST
Is India's growth story over? Not quite. History shows there have been ups and downs in the past tooEach time the economy hits a low, there are cries of the end of India's growth. Each time, they're proven wrong.
16 Dec, 2019, 12.14 PM IST
Machines are coming for India’s unwanted jobsAhead of a big election, India’s accidental automation may make that promise even harder to fulfill.
27 Sep, 2018, 06.31 PM IST
Those who sow Hindu terror will reap Muslim terrorGoing by this definition, the lynch mobs that beat up and kill people suspected of carrying beef are terrorists. So too are Muslim lynch mo...
09 Jul, 2017, 11.42 AM IST
Donald Trump's nationalist agenda ignores his global business empire: ReportOne of his companies even applied for trademark protection in the Philippines more than a month after the election, the report said citing ...
23 Feb, 2017, 02.14 PM IST
Make-in-India: Manufacturing can no longer accommodate unskilled ex-farmhandsMake in India is a great political pitch. It cheers industry, gives hope to the unemployed that they would find decent jobs in new factorie...
08 Oct, 2014, 12.37 PM IST
New Manufacturing Policy: Why India needs a blueprint to boost manufacturingSound industrial policy is the process of accelerating learning that enables enterprises to improve their competitiveness faster.
13 Feb, 2012, 08.35 AM IST
Consensus building capacity must catch up with complexity of reform agendaThe concern now is that ideas of the world as an economy and society as a set of economic transactions have been carried too far since the ...
12 Dec, 2011, 02.29 AM IST
- China first middle-income nation on course to becoming superpower: Arvind Subramanian
Arvind Subramanian says that India and other neighbours shouldnt worry as Beijing is unlikely to become a malign hegemon.
27 Sep, 2011, 07.23 AM IST
- I wouldn't suggest full convertibility: Dani Rodrik
Western nations must rethink their fiscal austerity plans as they can result in a vicious cycle of low growth, believes Prof Dani Rodrik.
15 Aug, 2011, 01.43 AM IST
- Don't give in to Siren Song of Financial Globalisation: Dani Rodrik
In his latest book, Rodrik argues for the recreation of a system along the lines of the Bretton Woods consensus, which governed monetary re...
25 Mar, 2011, 05.15 AM IST
- Hu’s visit signals China may let the yuan rise
The announcement by Chinese authorities on Thursday that President Hu Jintao will be visiting Washington in two weeks is being seen as the ...
03 Apr, 2010, 05.13 AM IST
- Global capital mobility: The gambler’s ruin?
From Adam Smith (1776) until 1950 or so, capital was considered by economists to be absolutely essential for economic growth.
02 Jun, 2008, 01.23 AM IST