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Business News > Mint Authors > Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

Mint Author

ARTICLES BY NIRANJAN RAJADHYAKSHA

The first wave of research on whether the use of AI tools increases labour productivity has generally been focused on specific tasks rather than a wider arc of human activities.

Whether AI can crack the Solow paradox is the era’s big question

4 min read . 20 Sep 2023

Indian labour market data is notoriously sketchy, but it is worth speculating whether the recovery in labour-intensive service activities will create higher incomes to support spending by households lower down in the income pyramid.

Our economic recovery from the pandemic has been fairly steady

4 min read . 06 Sep 2023

The US has launched its industrial policy to ensure that it has enough domestic production capacity in its three selected areas of infrastructure, semiconductors and clean energy.

Adopt clear evaluation criteria for industrial policies

4 min read . 22 Aug 2023

It makes a difference whether new investments are expanding factory lines for cars run on internal combustion engines or creating an electric vehicles industry from scratch.

Will our new investment cycle be Keynesian or Schumpeterian?

4 min read . 09 Aug 2023

The green transition will involve aiming investments at new areas and a combination of subsidies and a carbon tax to incentivize technology adoption—actions for both the state and market to take.

Oppenheimer’s project should inspire climate action urgenc

4 min read . 26 Jul 2023

In a recent paper, Bibek Debroy and Devi Prasad Misra used goods and services tax (GST) data to show that inter-state trade cumulatively grew more than 14 percentage points faster than the underlying economy between fiscal years 2017-18 and 2020-21 (MINT_PRINT)

New data tools can help analyse pixel-level economic dynamics

4 min read . 12 Jul 2023

Shipments of mobile phones assembled in India have increased by more than ten times over the past six years. (Mint)

India has a good shot at slowly ascending global value chains

4 min read . 13 Jun 2023

Adam Smith was born in the tiny Scottish town of Kircaldy around 300 years ago. (Photo: iStockphoto)

Adam Smith’s ‘Wealth of Nations’ has valuable lessons for eternity

4 min read . 31 May 2023

Let’s move from rear-view to the windshield on wage data

3 min read . 17 May 2023

Youthful Demographics: India's Economic Opportunities and Challenges

4 min read . 10 May 2023

Tax trends suggest India may be close to a fiscal inflection point

4 min read . 19 Apr 2023

Photo: Bloomberg

India’s post-pandemic potential growth could be pushed higher

4 min read . 06 Apr 2023

Photo: Bloomberg

Do not let increasing heatwaves sap worker productivity in India

4 min read . 22 Mar 2023

Picking the correct lessons is important for India as well, especially since its earlier tryst with industrial policy did not work too well.

Industrial policy learnings from a Soviet model versus Japanese

3 min read . 09 Mar 2023

January’s inflation data served us a reminder of RBI’s challenge

4 min read . 22 Feb 2023

India must reduce its public debt ratio to build economic resilience

4 min read . 08 Feb 2023

Sitharaman has managed to pull off a balancing act

4 min read . 02 Feb 2023

The budget must balance growth and public debt

5 min read . 25 Jan 2023

India will face especially complex policy challenges next fiscal year

4 min read . 11 Jan 2023

Adam Smith placed the key to human progress not in the hands of kings, queens and aristocrats, but ordinary folk. Photo: iStock

The broad mission of economics mustn’t get lost in daily routines

5 min read . 28 Dec 2022