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Arun Maira

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ARTICLES BY ARUN MAIRA

To import and sell is easy, learning to make in India is harder. (Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Arun Maira: India’s economic strategy must keep the big picture in view

4 min read . 17 Apr 2025

India’s economy must increase in size; for its growth to be sustainable, many more people must find work and their incomes must rise too.

Arun Maira: When will modern economies learn to value human beings?

4 min read . 26 Mar 2025

The problem is not what a new technology can do, it is the purpose for which it is used, and for whose benefit. (Pexel)

Arun Maira: Don’t let techo-optimism over AI crowd out concerns of equity

5 min read . 24 Feb 2025

AI is marginal to India’s challenge of jobs and incomes. (Hindustan Times)

Arun Maira: The impact of AI on Indian jobs is a distraction we can do without

4 min read . 29 Jan 2025

Economic science in its present state cannot provide solutions for problems it has unwittingly caused.

Rethinking the purpose of economic policy

4 min read . 24 Dec 2024

The harm that IMF’s structural reforms have caused are visible in many countries. (AFP)

Arun Maira: The Washington Consensus has collapsed and it won’t be mourned

4 min read . 13 Nov 2024

A large economy without a strong base of producers and consumers in its villages and small towns cannot be sustainable, economically or politically (Photo: HT)

Putting wind beneath the economy’s sails

3 min read . 04 Jun 2024

Since the 20th century, economics has become the dominant ‘science’ for guiding public policy.. Photo: iStock

Science and economics need a reset, and new conversations

5 min read . 13 Oct 2022

When some Indian leaders in 2010 woke up to the need for policies to nurture domestic manufacturing, ideology forbade the use of the name ‘industrial policy’. Photo: Mint

Globalisation is dying; India needs sound industrial policy

5 min read . 26 Jul 2022

How the global machine could regain its long-lost soul

4 min read . 09 Jun 2022

The way we go about reforms is all wrong

5 min read . 10 Feb 2022

The scarcely understood role of humans within complex systems

4 min read . 10 Nov 2021

Economic growth accelerated, though it’s spluttering now, and millions were lifted above the poverty line—though, sadly, millions have fallen below it again in the covid pandemic. (Photo: Reuters)

Our technocratic approach to institutions has failed us

4 min read . 11 Jun 2021

Wanted: A charter on the public purpose of private enterprise

4 min read . 13 Apr 2021

Fix the software of policymaking and listen to the voice of people

4 min read . 28 Jan 2021

Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint

India must get its manufacturing policy right this time

4 min read . 22 Dec 2020

Faridabad: Tata truck showroom (Mint)

The learning factories that India needs for rapid industrialization

4 min read . 21 Oct 2020

Sumant Moolgaonkar (left) with J.R.D. Tata. Courtesy: Penguin Random House India

How the greatest leader J.R.D. Tata nurtured proved his worth

5 min read . 20 Oct 2020

The pandemic seems to have exposed structural weaknesses of the Indian economy and revived old debates about what’s best, with globalization back in focus as a point of contention.

Opinion | The great scramble of millions to board India’s economic bus

4 min read . 23 Jul 2020

The Economic Survey released in January cited high-frequency data such as exports, factory output and non-food credit growth to raise the growth estimate to 6.75% for the year ending 31 March. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint

Opinion | A new economy must take shape once this crisis passes

4 min read . 04 May 2020