Tag Search: “FDI”
Union Budget 2025-26: Many small measures but lacks big ideas
The Finance Minister recently presented the Union Budget for 2025-26. In this post, Rajeswari Sengupta notes that the most significant aspect of this Budget is the fiscal stimulus aimed at middle-clas...
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Rajeswari Sengupta
05 February, 2025
- Perspectives
The disruptive market power of foreign portfolio investors in the face of tax threat
Foreign portfolio investors in emerging markets are known to exit host capital markets promptly if any policy changes impose additional costs. Based on an analysis of daily trading data during a perio...
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Hisham Farag
Andrew Marshall
Biwesh Neupane
Suman Neupane
Chandra Thapa
02 November, 2022
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International financial architecture and emerging economies
Policy responses to Covid-19 have been a mix of fiscal and monetary policy – with the latter doing the heavy-lifting in both developed and developing countries. Against this backdrop, in this edition ...
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Viral Acharya
Amartya Lahiri
05 April, 2022
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International financial architecture and emerging economies
Policy responses to Covid-19 have been a mix of fiscal and monetary policy – with the latter doing the heavy-lifting in both developed and developing countries. Against this backdrop, in this edition ...
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Viral Acharya
Amartya Lahiri
05 April, 2022
- Podcasts
Global value chain participation and intermediate export sophistication
While the dominance of global value chains (GVCs) in production processes is a widely accepted fact, the impact of participation in GVCs is still being explored. Using data from a sample of 100 nation...
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Neha Betai
Rupa Chanda
26 July, 2021
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India’s trade protectionism and low-productivity vicious cycle
Amid rising populism and anti-globalisation movements across the world, Atmanirbhar Bharat represents India’s adoption of trade protectionism. While the country’s inward-oriented economic policies ten...
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Srijan Shukla
07 July, 2021
- Perspectives
Rising industrial accidents: Fallout of boosting ‘Ease of Doing Business’?
India has witnessed a surge in severe fire and explosion-related accidents in industrial and commercial establishments, in recent years. In this post, R Nagaraj contends that perhaps the dilution – or...
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R. Nagaraj
28 April, 2021
- Perspectives
Budget 2021-22: A passing grade
Assessing the 2021-22 Union Budget, Bhaskar Dutta argues that while there are several positive features, the overall thrust is disappointing because it does not address the needs of the poor.
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Bhaskar Dutta
09 February, 2021
- Perspectives
The Indian economy and policymaking: Towards ‘openness’
Providing his perspective on the recent policy paper by Subramanian and Felman, Nirvikar Singh contends that more emphasis is needed on financial reforms and innovation, addressing India’s export slow...
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Nirvikar Singh
29 January, 2021
- Perspectives
There are none so blind as they who will not see
Based on Government of India’s own data, the government and the community of economists in India have come up with different narratives about the position of Indian economy. In this post, Pronab Sen h...
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Pronab Sen
16 December, 2019
- Perspectives
What should we do about the Indian economy? A wide-angled perspective - IV
In the previous part of this series, Ashok Kotwal and Pronab Sen traced the genesis of the present economic slowdown. In this part, they discuss the way forward to arrest the slowdown. They suggest a ...
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Ashok Kotwal
Pronab Sen
29 September, 2019
- Perspectives
What should we do about the Indian economy? A wide-angled perspective - III
In the previous part of this series, Ashok Kotwal and Pronab Sen presented an export-led development strategy employed by successful Asian countries and why India failed on this front. In this part, t...
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Ashok Kotwal
Pronab Sen
29 September, 2019
- Perspectives