Is China the new USSR? Tepid growth, trade barriers may derail China’s plans to rule the 21st centuryChina poses a significant challenge to U.S. economic dominance, leading in 37 of 44 hi-tech strategic areas. Despite slowing economic growt...
03 Feb, 2025, 10.46 PM IST
Can AI answer the needs of smaller businesses? Some push to find outEconomists generally believe that the diffusion and adoption of generative AI will occur much faster, in part because information flows mor...
20 Jun, 2024, 10.39 AM IST
Changes in labour, physical capital and productivity norms can help India hit 8% growthThat India will grow by leaps and bounds is not a given. An aggressive pursuit of reforms will be needed. To be fair, four recent policies ...
28 Jul, 2023, 10.41 PM IST
The Alluring Twenties: What would it take to replicate the 1920s?While the decade presents a hope of prosperity, it also brings a multitude of threats. The way in which the scales tip will define not just...
06 Jun, 2021, 11.27 PM IST
Kaushik Kaushik Basu takes over as IEA president"Basu's leadership kicked off with the closing of IEA's 18th World Congress in Mexico, at which Basu spoke, along with Cornell's Ravi Kanbu...
27 Jun, 2017, 03.40 PM IST
US jobs data: Soaring output is missing from the numbersUnemployment ticked up to 5% from 4.9%, as more people returned to the labour force. Wages increased 0.3% month to month, and are up 2.3% y...
05 Apr, 2016, 02.12 AM IST
Innovative firms will survive any slowdownI don’t see any imminent bust hitting new-age companies because unlike in the past, these companies have robust revenue models.
25 Mar, 2014, 05.12 AM IST
- UK may mark the end of Keynesian economics
The UK has produced notable economists over the years, but John Maynard Keynes, the guru of government intervention, was one of truly globa...
24 Feb, 2010, 03.01 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
- India's policy regime marred by 'bad ideas'
The government’s decision to subsidise consumers of petroleum products by resisting revision of prices despite a sharp rise of crude is a “...
30 May, 2008, 04.33 AM IST
- Fed faces Democratic demands to focus on jobs
Democrats, in control of Congress for the first time in 12 years, want to discuss the Federal Reserve’s mandate to create full employment, ...
17 Jan, 2007, 12.00 AM IST
- Experts to focus on pro-poor policies
Finance Minister Jaswant Singh will spare time from his busy preparation for the interim budget to inaugurate the fifth annual Global Devel...
27 Jan, 2004, 07.34 AM IST