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Business News > Mint Authors > Alok Sheel

Alok Sheel

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ARTICLES BY ALOK SHEEL

In earlier times, the grasshopper would have had to transfer gold to the ant to get grain. But what the ‘Chinese ant’ gets in exchange are really scraps of paper. (iStock Photo)

Trump’s trade war: A tale of the US grasshopper versus the Chinese ant

4 min read . 06 Feb 2025

If NCR were situated on a coast, excess water could drain into the sea. (Bloomberg)

Urban flooding havoc: Dig deeper for root causes

4 min read . 10 Jul 2024

Article 293 (3) of the Indian Constitution ensures that the debt of constituent states of the Indian Union is kept in check by New Delhi, as states in India need the Centre’s permission to borrow.

India's political economy challenge is to contain ‘transfer union’ discord

4 min read . 27 Nov 2023

This century’s mercenaries, such as Wagner in Russia, are engaged by great powers in overseas campaigns. (AP)

State run versus private armies: Wagner triggered a risk debate

4 min read . 12 Jul 2023

Photo: Bloomberg

Aim for a best-case scenario on catching up with China

4 min read . 13 Apr 2023

India's growth needs deep analysis, not constant trumpeting

4 min read . 06 Feb 2023

Let the third crisis of capitalism concentrate our minds

Let the third crisis of capitalism concentrate our minds

1 min read . 14 Dec 2022

Our food production and subsidy data (for wheat and rice) also buttress the case for nutritional deficiencies.

Global Hunger Index rating should shock us into a policy review

4 min read . 28 Oct 2022

Photo: Bloomberg

Demagogues, not monarchs, are the threat to democracy

4 min read . 27 Sep 2022

Will we sustain rapid growth beyond FY23?

4 min read . 22 Jun 2022

This is a highly emotive issue, understandably, one that can upend social harmony and disrupt economic growth, which is all the more reason for us to look at various facets of the problem in a dispassionate and rational manner. (Photo: PTI)

Attempts to right wrongs of the past can’t do any good

4 min read . 26 May 2022

Systems of global governance should move beyond realpolitik

4 min read . 04 Apr 2022

Both infections and deaths from the third wave have been falling sharply globally after peaking in the second half of January.

The swan song of coronavirus is audible in an ebbing third wave

4 min read . 09 Mar 2022

By September 2021, mortality had risen again on both sides of the Atlantic (AFP)

Covid pandemic, a replay of the Spanish Flu?

4 min read . 17 Dec 2021

A lengthening G-7 shadow over the G-20 was apparent in Rome

4 min read . 21 Nov 2021

The fine print of RBI's monetary policy statement shows both inflation and growth remain worrisome.

RBI faces monetary policy dilemmas

4 min read . 08 Oct 2021

Trade-and-geopolitical rivalry between the US and China has now taken centre stage.

A crisis of multilateralism and Asia’s rising stake in it

4 min read . 29 Sep 2021

Global covid trends suggest the pandemic may be petering out

4 min read . 28 Jul 2021

Photo: Bloomberg

Global covid trends: The second wave and where we are headed

4 min read . 09 Jun 2021

India must watch out for a taper tantrum in global capital markets

4 min read . 24 May 2021