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Business News > Mint Authors > Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

ARTICLES BY NIRANJAN RAJADHYAKSHA

Indian urbanization data is woefully out of date because the Census due in 2021 was postponed during the pandemic.

India needs robust urban data to light up its path to urbanization

5 min read . 14 Jul 2026

History tells us that exchange-rate policy is not only about economics. (PTI)

Exchange rate policy: are traces of political economy inevitable?

4 min read . 30 Jun 2026

Indian households' income stagnation since the pandemic and attempts to adjust to the new reality could help explain some trends in the economy today. (istockphoto)

Why stress on the external front must not obscure India's domestic challenges

4 min read . 16 Jun 2026

A balance between seeking Chinese investments and staying wary of innovation spillbacks will have to be maintained. (Pixabay)

Chinese FDI is welcome but India must stay vigilant on innovation spillbacks

4 min read . 02 Jun 2026

Gold is the third biggest item in the Indian import bill, after crude oil and electronics. (REUTERS)

Why do Indians buy gold? The investment motive has been dominant lately

4 min read . 19 May 2026

One salient fact about industrial policy in our times is that most governments seem to have some variant of it.

Industrial policy is back in vogue—but can all countries pursue one?

4 min read . 05 May 2026

India seems headed for a third consecutive year of a balance-of-payments deficit with the rest of the world. (PTI)

India’s current account deficit: Why we need to keep it under watch

4 min read . 21 Apr 2026

Disruptions in energy supplies have begun to ripple through supply chains across the world. (Bloomberg)

Why this crude oil crisis is unlikely to play out the way past supply shocks did

4 min read . 07 Apr 2026

The Strait of Hormuz is a chokepoint created by geology, but there are many other types as well. (REUTERS)

Rare earths to crude oil: Chokepoints are forcing countries to shift strategy

4 min read . 10 Mar 2026

It is worth asking whether AI taking over some tasks will or will not increase efficiency in the tasks that will continue to be done by human professionals. (istockphoto)

Will AI destroy jobs? That depends on what kind of tasks they involve

4 min read . 24 Feb 2026

The weights in the new Consumer Price Index will reflect changes in how Indian households allocate money in their monthly budgets to various items of spending. (Pixabay)

Good news for RBI: Inflation data to reflect consumption more accurately

4 min read . 11 Feb 2026

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the budget in Parliament on Sunday. (Hindustan Times)

A moderate fisc at a time of record capex and hard push for factories

5 min read . 02 Feb 2026

Budget analysis will now have to move to a new Holy Grail beyond the annual fiscal deficit target. (Bloomberg)

The budget must exercise fiscal restraint under new spending pressures

4 min read . 27 Jan 2026

The finance minister had announced last year that India would have a new fiscal policy framework under which the main aim would be to bring down the ratio of public debt to GDP over the medium term. (Mint)

India’s strong economic growth masks an emerging fiscal constraint

4 min read . 13 Jan 2026

The book 'National Power and the Structure of Foreign Trade' was written in a particular historical context, but has useful clues on how countries can negotiate trade turbulence in the Trump era. (AFP)

Asymmetrical trade can have political consequences—a lesson for the Trump era

4 min read . 16 Dec 2025

The 1991 reforms dismantled the licence raj, but largely left the inspector raj untouched. (istockphoto)

India's renewed efforts to nix inspector raj must rise to a roar

4 min read . 02 Dec 2025

Firing up growth without underlying changes in the efficiency, productivity and competitiveness of the economy will almost inevitably lead to episodes of economic instability. (HT PHOTO)

Has India’s economy attained a structurally higher growth trajectory?

4 min read . 18 Nov 2025

Countries such as India escaped the clutches of mass hunger through new technology rather than lower food consumption. (istockphoto)

CoP-30: Why we can count on innovation to lead our battle against climate change

4 min read . 04 Nov 2025

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the Indian economy needs to grow at 8% a year to reach the goal of becoming a developed country by 2047. (ANI)

Our Viksit Bharat goal calls for 8% annual growth: Here’s what it’ll take

4 min read . 21 Oct 2025

Economic historian Joel Mokyr has been awarded the Nobel Prize for economics this year along with Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt. Northwestern University/Handout via REUTERS. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY

Industrial Revolution to China's rise: 2025 Econ Nobel winner decodes growth

4 min read . 13 Oct 2025