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Puja Mehra

ARTICLES BY PUJA MEHRA

India and the EU have thrashed out a trade pact that will now be taken up for ratification by the European Parliament and is being called ‘the mother of all deals.’ (Bloomberg)

What India’s free trade pact with the EU reveals about the global trade order

4 min read . 19 Feb 2026

The book looks at select development failures, like subpar improvement in school-learning outcomes. (iStockphoto)

Book review: Everything that’s wrong with India’s development story

6 min read . 29 Nov 2025

The bilateral trade agreement (BTA) is likely to be inked at the ASEAN Summit later this month between US president Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (Reuters)

India, US trade deal likely soon, huge tariff cuts on the horizon

6 min read . 22 Oct 2025

Ram Singh, director and professor, Delhi School of Economics and member of the monetary policy committee.

Why this MPC member proposed a change in October policy stance

3 min read . 17 Oct 2025

The US did not raise any concerns at the global trade body on this count, but separately, in its trade deal negotiations with India, the Americans too have made the point strongly about QCOs being one of India’s non-trade barriers. (AFP)

QCOs help lobbies at the cost of hampering India's manufacturing competitiveness

4 min read . 13 Oct 2025

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Europe and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. (File Photo: PMO)

Trump’s calls for coordinated tariffs on India unlikely to sway EU

3 min read . 13 Sept 2025

It’s clear that US President Donald Trump is not settling for win-win deals, and that may be what’s slowing progress with India. (ANI Photo)

The long arc of an India-US trade deal could end in a win-win

4 min read . 31 Jul 2025

Arvind Panagariya, chairman of the Sixteenth Finance Commission.

What 16th Finance Commission’s thinking on giving higher tax share to states

4 min read . 14 Jun 2025

Today, it seems that a new global trade chapter is being written messily and hastily in which the US is trying to replace the rules-based economic order with one based on crude power. (AP)

Trump’s trade agenda: About US jobs or global supremacy?

4 min read . 19 May 2025

US President Donald Trump, who was unmoved by the equity meltdown over his tariff war, beat a retreat at the first sign of an adverse reaction in the market for US Treasury bonds. (AFP)

Trump tariffs: The global bond market achieved what diplomacy couldn’t

4 min read . 13 Apr 2025

Poonam Gupta has been appointed by the RBI as its new Deputy Governor. (World Bank)

Poonam Gupta: RBI’s new status-quo challenger

3 min read . 03 Apr 2025

US President Donald Trump. (Reuters)

Will India be spared Trump's tariffs? We don't know, says DGFT's Sarangi

4 min read . 28 Mar 2025

Reserve Bank of India governor Sanjay Malhotra. (Reuters)

Why RBI may again aggressively defend the rupee

4 min read . 10 Mar 2025

US President Donald Trump. Photo: Reuters

Trump tariffs: Is the US president doomed to repeat history?

6 min read . 08 Mar 2025

The US has a pronounced trade deficit in this sector that makes for 37.5% of the bilateral trade and a striking 79.3% of India’s overall trade surplus with the US. (AFP)

Prepare to hit the US with tariffs where it hurts: expert body advising the govt

4 min read . 07 Mar 2025

The rupee has lost 3% of its value against the US dollar since October 2024. Photo: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg

Rupee tantrums: The risk and cost of RBI's approach

2 min read . 16 Jan 2025

During the past ten years, changes in repo rates seem to have made little difference to vegetable price volatility.

Debate over excluding food inflation from monetary policy reaches MPC

5 min read . 25 Dec 2024

It appears that in India, the government’s choice has become restricted – perhaps permanently–to bureaucrats. (Reuters)

Five of MPC's six members may soon be new

2 min read . 10 Dec 2024

Today’s problems need a new consensus, and constructing it would require a coherent resolution of many matters—institutional, social and geopolitical.

India needs to shake up its new political-economy consensus

4 min read . 02 Dec 2024

Debroy quit the Niti Aayog in 2017 to take up the role of an economic advisor to the Prime Minister.

Bibek Debroy and the unbearable lightness of being an economist

4 min read . 07 Nov 2024