Five years on, mandated philanthropy not delivering in India India is now into the fifth year of its unique experiment...
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The use of internet has undergone rapid evolution in a matter of few decades. In the 90s, the internet...
View: The world needs evolutionary transformation, not economic nationalism The developing wave of economic nationalism across the world has...
India’s Competitiveness: Where do we stand? It is quite commonplace to hear that India will be an economic superpower in a...
How telecom has become driver of economic change in India For most part of human history, change was glacial...
Late convergence stall The usual brouhaha around the Budget strips the Economic Survey of the attention it deserves. The...
Long-awaited market correction finally in full swing History has strange ways of repeating itself. The economic situation in the...
Budget 2018: Balancing populism with economics The Budget is finally out and to put it simply, Mr. Jaitley did...
Budget 2018 expectations: After Economic Survey, much now depends on what FM Arun Jaitley has in store In its own...
Last week Uday Kotak of the Kotak Mahindra Bank had a warning for the stock markets entering a possible...
The Global Dialogues & Conversations India this year is putting together its largest ever entourage of ministers, policymakers and...
The price prescription Post-GST, we need a more targeted taxation and retail policy on tobacco products India is the...
Budget 2018 will be Modi govt’s biggest challenge in 4 years. Here’s why Unlike most countries, budgets are usually...
In the same week as a Delhi court acquitted all the accused in the 2G fiasco, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), which had a...
The new year is upon us. It has been 17 years into the 21st century and if one word...
Rocky ride for the economy in 2017 It has been almost a decade since the world underwent a litany...
Tapping Into the Evolving Telecom Sector The Indian telecom industry is passing through complex times. It has been almost two decades since the Atal...
It’s best to steer clear of Bitcoins lest the bubble bursts It is impossible to make sense of the...
Bad news for Modi? Bleak prospects for Indian economy for next few quarters The much-awaited second quarter gross domestic...
Consumer Protection Act: A Reform In Limbo The Bill includes quite a few forward-looking, innovative measures that will go...
Tobacco consumption: Why bidi, not cigarette, is bigger challenge for India It seems like a good time for India...
‘Padmavati’ protests much ado about nothing? It’s that time of the year again when our sentiments are hurt, and...
“Delhi is a wakeup call for the world on air pollution. It clearly tells us that unless decisive actions are...
Is Doing Business Really Easy? Modi’s efforts in building India’s global appeal to investors seems to have finally yielded...
World markets ripe for the taking, but where is India’s strategy? In an expected and welcome turn of events,...
Government should wake up to scourge of illegal LEDs The Indian LED lighting industry is going through a boom...
The real reason why Modi is struggling to find a fix for India’s job crises The problem of jobs...
India’s economy is resilient and will bounce back, but here is the deep-rooted problem Since the latest growth numbers have...
India improving on competitiveness index, but large ailments remain In a respite to the Modi government, which has been...
Fiscal stimulus could do more harm than good if Modi ignores these things It is almost a certainty that...
Can BRICS credit rating agency ever take off? The BRICS Summit was largely an uneventful affair this year. Apart...
It is becoming really hard to be optimistic about the Indian economy. As TN Ninan pointed out last week,...
Buzz Aldrin, one of the first two people to land on the moon, was quoted saying “If we can...
It is no secret that India has had an appalling record in keeping her children healthy. It is no...
It has been a decade since the biggest financial crisis in living memory swept the globe. In a run...
Self-proclaimed godmen and a coterie of sycophants to back them and validate their claims have always been ubiquitous in India. This...
Infosys is yet again in the news for all the wrong reasons. The poster child of the Indian IT industry just...
The Indian rupee has been on a rising spree this year. Beginning from historical lows back in December-January, when...
Dr. Vishal Sikka’s exit from Infosys seems to have been accentuated by the streak of comments made by co-founder...
On the 75th anniversary of the Quit India movement, The Prime Minister urged the citizens to create a new...
The RBI expectedly cut the repo rate last week by 25 basis points, bringing the key lending rate to a six-year...
The data released by the Bloomberg Billionaire Index revealed some shocking statistics about the rise of inequality in India....
The Indian stock markets seems to be on a steroid-infused dream run. Both the National Stock Exchange’s Nifty-50 and...
Indian household savings patterns have been witnessing some massive structural shifts off late. Households in India have historically been...
Last week Antarctica shed a trillion-ton iceberg from the Larsen C ice shelf that had been tethered precariously at...
Since the election of Donald Trump to the White House and the subsequent allegations of Russia rigging the outcome,...
The annual US Congress-mandated report on human trafficking last week continued to place India in the tier-2 category, which includes countries...
The role of interest rate in India’s growth is grossly underplayed. The movement of interest rates have been strongly...
Twice in two weeks the US has taken steps that will have dire repercussions on a global scale. First,...
Source: Institute for Competitiveness New Delhi, Thursday, May 26, 2017 4:00 PM Harvard Business School Professor and leading management...
It has been an eventful three years for the Modi government. Back in 2014, BJP had inherited a system...
Source: Institute for Competitiveness New Delhi, Thursday, May 25, 2017 11:30 AM Harvard Business School Professor...
India has become the fastest-growing economy in the world. The next logical steps are to make this trend sustainable...
The Indian IT industry is at a crossroads. The sector first suffered the long-expected shock of the Trump administration’s...
India’s NPA problem has a flip side to it: the issue of rising corporate debts. IMF, in its latest...
Taxing agricultural income has always been a politically sensitive topic. This was evident last week after NITI Aayog member...
South Asia is becoming one of the most interesting regions in the world economy, displaying unprecedented growth, averaging close to six...
The Modi government has been pulling all stops to improve the ease of doing business rankings since it came into power...
The onset of summer and rising mercury levels will soon lead to a huge demand for ice-creams and frozen...
An eventful financial year nears its end on March 31. It was a year of tumultuous ups and downs...
The conversation around BJPs electoral win in UP has completely overshadowed the political scenario in the state of Punjab. Political commentators...
The just-concluded assembly elections and the unparalleled performance of the BJP have been the highlight of the weekend. The elections, happening...
The Indian economy has been witnessing a flux of good news lately. The GDP growth for the October-December quarter stood at seven per...
It is only so often that the world finds itself at the cusp of a revolution and an industrial...
GDP is easily the most controversial measure in the field of economics. It is a measure of economic production...
If the buzz around Hyperloop materialises, a commute between Chennai and Bengaluru can be a matter of 30 minutes. The advent of Artificial...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley put the spotlight on the issue of tax evasion in his February 1 budget speech...
Competitiveness at the national level relates to the set of institutions, policies, factors, resources and competencies that enhance the...
The Union Budget for 2017-18 was easily the most anticipated one in recent times. The public was seeking the...
Unlike in most countries of the world, the Budget unusually holds widespread public interest in India. However, the Budget...
The agriculture sector in India employs more than 90 million people and contributes 15.4 percent gross value addition (GVA)...
Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY – Urban) was launched by PM Narendra Modi on 25 June 2015, wherein the...
Healthcare is hardly a debated issue in India. Election manifestos usually pay lip service to the issue and successive Budgets...
Ever since Arvind Subramanian confirmed that the idea of universal basic income (UBI) would make its way into the...
As we get to celebrate 67 years as a republic on January 26 and 70 years as an independent...
Digital India Mission was unveiled by PM Narendra Modi on 3 July 2015. Over the last two years, considerable...
The anticipations regarding what the Union Budget 2017 has in store for different sectors have already started. In the...
A special “Nobel Series” session was a notable addition at the latest Vibrant Gujarat Summit (January 9-12). Nine laureates were invited to...
The most recent Purchasing Manager’s Index (PMI) reflects a contraction in the manufacturing activity in India in December. Most...
There has been much debate on how the world will be in 2017. Several trends are visible and some...
Practices that enhance competitiveness while improving socio-economic profiles of communities bring better growth Milton Friedman vehemently argued against the...
The year coming to a close saw the unraveling of several key events at both the international and domestic...
India is a country of epic proportions and almost the size of a continent. The whole of Europe has lesser number of inhabitants than India but...
The decision at the just-concluded 171st ministerial meeting of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) to reduce...
With the government decision to withdraw Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes as legal tender, an ongoing debate on...
The Prime Minister’s move on demonetising Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes is now slowly playing out. Apart from...
The past week has been momentous with two important events: the election of Donald Trump as the 45th US President and...
Dr. Amit Kapoor moderated a session on Prosperity at the Global Action Summit at Nashville on November 14-15,...
That the environment in cities in India and the broader South Asian region in general is in shambles is not a...
International migration refers to the movement of people across borders caused by various economic, social and environmental factors as...
Economic growth alone is not enough to achieve key Sustainable Development Goals. It must translate into jobs for the...
The Tata group is no stranger to Indians. It has had a long and illustrious history in the sub-continent...
Goals 1 and 2 of the UNs Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) envision eradicating poverty and ending hunger in an...
Indian higher education system has collapsed and quantity has replaced quality. While some parents and most students are aware...
The Indian economy and that of the broader South Asian Region (SAR) is a source of considerable interest in...
The Fraser Institute’s annual Economic Freedom of the World Report raises some important points for Indian policymakers. The Fraser...
National Competitiveness Forum Focuses on Innovation and Competition Saturday, October 1, 2016 5:42PM IST (12:12PM GMT) National Competitiveness Forum...
Deliberations were Made Around the Theme of Manufacturing at the India’s National Competitiveness Forum Rajiv Bajaj, Dr. V K...
As the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) begins its platinum jubilee celebrations, it is time for India to take...
India has convinced a lot of people and the world is making big bets on its stature as a manufacturing...
