A visible hand

With the award to Indian-American economist Amartya Sen in 1998, the prize committee appeared to signal a recognition of the roots of Economics in moral and social philosophy.

Who could win this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics?

4 min read . 26 Sep 2023

Without shared values, the G20 cannot easily build consensus when the conflict is within itself. (PTI)

A thick alphabet soup of global entities has been getting thicker

4 min read . 12 Sep 2023

When the US announced sanctions on Russia’s dollar reserves following the Ukraine War, only 17% were held in USD with the remaining held in euro, yuan, sterling and gold.

Long live the slowly dying and unlamented US dollar

4 min read . 18 Jul 2023

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell (AP)

The chorus of central bankers: Higher rates for longer

4 min read . 03 Jul 2023

The study of human genomics is an evolving revolution

4 min read . 24 Apr 2023

We saw regular old bank failures with modern twists

4 min read . 11 Apr 2023

The US Federal Reserve in Washington, DC (Photo: AFP)

The US Federal Reserve should navigate carefully now

4 min read . 14 Feb 2023

Photo: Bloomberg

Old-fashioned emerging market crises aren’t history yet

4 min read . 31 Jan 2023

The impact of artificial intelligence is being felt across the global labour market in all sectors, according to the LinkedIn report. Photo: iStock

There’ll be no let-up in science and technology progress

4 min read . 16 Jan 2023

Climate finance must take centre-stage in global action

4 min read . 05 Dec 2022

FILE PHOTO: A security personnel stands guard next to the COP27 sign during the closing plenary at the COP27 climate summit in Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 20, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany/File Photo (REUTERS)

Assign market-based incentives a role in climate action

4 min read . 21 Nov 2022

We’ll need binding promises for climate action to work

4 min read . 07 Nov 2022

We’ve made significant progress on poverty reduction

4 min read . 26 Oct 2022

Other economic concerns may trump inflation worries

4 min read . 11 Oct 2022

The move comes amid India’s bid to find alternatives to lithium-ion battery cells and reduce its dependence on China (Photo: Reuters)

We may tread deep water in pursuit of industrial metals

4 min read . 26 Sep 2022

The proposed price cap joins the freezing of Russian central bank reserves and the denial of Swift access to Russian banks as new and controversial weapons in the global economic warfare arsenal. (Reuters)

A price cap on Russian oil by the G7 is unlikely to work

4 min read . 12 Sep 2022

The People’s Bank of China, after having held the line for much of the early covid period, has begun to ease monetary policy from around April this year (Photo: Bloomberg)

China’s economy is plainly staring at a flickery future

4 min read . 29 Aug 2022

Why the mayhem in metal prices doesn’t foretell much

4 min read . 01 Aug 2022

Indian Rupee money stacks and banknotes on the table, closed up shot (Shutterstock)

Currency values are in a fierce tango with interest rates

4 min read . 18 Jul 2022

Fears of fire and ice mark markets with poetic precision

4 min read . 06 Jun 2022