How Aspirational Districts Programme forged new path in governance The Aspirational Districts Programme (ADP) has been changing the landscape...
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Assessing India’s Gender Budget This year’s Union Budget has been one of the most anticipated budgets, given the disastrous...
Leveraging Innovation in a Post-COVID World
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, Index 2020, Innovation, 0Leveraging Innovation in a Post-COVID World Necessity drives innovation. The need for transport led to the invention of the...
The Curious Case of Investment in Education There are numerous benefits of investment in education. It can reduce poverty,...
The Global Economy in the New Decade Economic upheavals in modern global history have often been succeeded by promising...
Building agile organisations in times of uncertainty
amitkapoor, , Articles, Articles, Economic Times, Rendanheyi, 0Building agile organisations in times of uncertainty The COVID-19 pandemic has redefined “uncertainty”. Organizations around the world were not...
How technology makes it possible to solve corruption As the world observes International Anti-Corruption Day today, it serves as...
A Case for Investing in Adolescents The fallout of the pandemic for adolescents amplifies the urgency. The time is...
India’s urbanization challenges and way forward India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, and its...
US election, another spectacle of polarized democracy
amitkapoor, , Articles, Democracy, Economic Times, 0US election, another spectacle of polarized democracy If we set aside the mayhem that followed after, the highly anticipated...
Google’s Tryst with Antitrust Cases: Lessons for Innovation
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, 0Google’s Tryst with Antitrust Cases: Lessons for Innovation Over the last few years, the Big Tech firms have been...
Lessons from the Bangladesh Growth Story The International Monetary Fund released the biannual World Economic Outlook this month with...
India’s successful journey to self-sufficiency in PPE kits
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, PPE, 0India’s successful journey to self-sufficiency in PPE kits The AtmaNirbhar Bharat (Self-Reliant India) mission was launched as a result...
AI for inclusive growth The use of automation was one of the trends that was accelerated by the pandemic....
Aspirational Districts Programme shifts the focus back on development
amitkapoor, , ADP, Articles, Economic Times, 0Aspirational Districts Programme shifts the focus back on development Economic growth and human development are two different concepts that...
Decoding the Economic Contraction Almost half of the current financial year has been completed with the COVID-19 pandemic still...
India’s exports: New opportunities and newer challenges
amitkapoor, , Articles, Articles, Economic Times, Export Preparedness, 0India’s exports: New opportunities and newer challenges The global economy faces challenging times ahead. Even before COVID-19 brought the...
The Need for Innovation in Management
amitkapoor, , Articles, Articles, Economic Times, Rendanheyi, 0Rearranging the Workplace: The Need for Innovation in Management From the way we manufacture goods to the way we...
Indian economy and new beginnings As India gears up to celebrate Independence Day this year, albeit in a more...
Two Sides of the Same Crisis: Stock Markets and Real Economy
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, 0Two Sides of the Same Crisis: Stock Markets and Real Economy Here’s the conundrum. The unemployment levels in India...
Keeping India on track: Why the current wave of rail reforms is actually “historical”?
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, 0Keeping India on track: Why the current wave of rail reforms is actually “historical”? One of the most overused adjectives in the...
Capitalism needs an ethical reboot Economists have been cautioning about the rising inequality around the world for some time...
How Coronavirus Accentuates Inequality Inequality is a phenomenon that always permeates all levels of society across all walks of...
With the shifts in global economic order, political landscape and social behavior all taking place simultaneously, it is safe...
The Signal in the Noise: Using the Best Data to Combat COVID-19 in India
amitkapoor, , Articles, Covid 19, Economic Times, 0The Signal in the Noise: Using the Best Data to Combat COVID-19 in India It is impossible to truly...
Rejuvenating India’s Growth Paradigm After Narendra Modi’s announcement last week of a gargantuan economic package, India spent the days glued to...
The Path of Self Reliance There were two aspects to Narendra Modi’s address to the nation on the 49th night...
How Vulnerable are Indian States to COVID-19 infections?
amitkapoor, , Articles, Covid 19, Economic Times, 0This pandemic could act as a starting point for the re-orientation of the primary and district health care systems...
We will come out of this catastrophe with not only positive changes, but negative practices as well. The Covid-19...
Franchisees need support from their franchisors, not exploitation. Even if the government disincentivises exploitative behaviour in view of this...
Our World After Coronavirus By the end of the second world war, the world had been reduced to ruins....
An unwanted shipment: The Indian experience of the 1918 Spanish Flu
amitkapoor, , Articles, Covid 19, Economic Times, 0The Indian experience of the deadly Spanish flu of 1918 shows how pandemics interact with social divide across communities ...
Tackling the Inevitable: The Need for New Economic Ideas in the Time of Coronavirus
amitkapoor, , Articles, Covid 19, Economic Times, India Council, 0Tackling the Inevitable: The Need for New Economic Ideas in the Time of Coronavirus The machines have stopped. The...
The Missing Politics of Inequality Inequality is an inevitable outcome of economic growth. Only its extent can be kept...
As dust settles on Trump’s India trip, here’s a relook at the road ahead on trade
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, India Council, 0There will be several gains for India to make for itself by resolving the trade equations with the US. ...
Strategies for Innovation Innovation is an idea that is often discussed but equally misunderstood. In simple terms, innovation is...
Budget 2020: Cutting the Fiscal Restraints
amitkapoor, , Articles, Budget, Economic Times, India Council, 0Budget 2020: Cutting the Fiscal Restraints There were a lot of expectations riding on the Budget this year as...
Budget 2020: The Need for Gender Budgeting
amitkapoor, , Articles, Budget, Economic Times, India Council, 0The Need for Gender Budgeting The progress of a nation is inextricably linked with the status of its women....
Is it time for a more realistic disinvestment target?
amitkapoor, , Articles, Budget, Economic Times, India Council, 0Is it time for a more realistic disinvestment target? The upcoming Budget might be the most crucial one for...
How India can keep its airlines afloat In the past decade, the Indian aviation industry has seen two airlines...
Breaking the Resource Curse India has an abundance of mineral deposits. The country is the second-largest producer of steel;...
India’s worrying growth statistics and what they mean for the future
amitkapoor, , Articles, Economic Times, India Council, 0India’s Worrying Growth Statistics and What They Mean for the Future The Indian economy grew at 4.5 percent in...
Can Asia regain its former glory? For most of human history – or as far as data can tell...