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India is not trying to copy China. It is charting an economic destiny consistent with its strengths and aspirations while creating conditions that translate those aspirations into reality ( Photo: Mint)

Manufacturing exports can gain from India’s empowerment push

4 min read . 21 Feb 2022

New Delhi: Union Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman with a folder case containing the Union Budget 2022-23 arrives at Parliament, in New Delhi, Tuesday, Feb 1, 2022. (PTI Photo/Kamal Kishore) (PTI02_01_2022_000039A) (PTI)

The four 'C's behind the Union budget

4 min read . 08 Feb 2022

Rate hikes, inflation set stage for a test by fire

4 min read . 25 Jan 2022

School closures had not come in the way of new and repeat waves of infections

Educational institutions should be reopened for a healthier India

4 min read . 18 Jan 2022

Becoming a ‘Weird’ society may no longer be necessary for India

4 min read . 11 Jan 2022

A file photo of former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. Photo: AFP

How we should equip ourselves to thrive under high uncertainty

4 min read . 04 Jan 2022

There is certainty about greater uncertainty as a new year begins

4 min read . 14 Dec 2021

When a virus makes policy-making easier for RBI

4 min read . 30 Nov 2021

Does America have an inequality problem in need of fiscal action?

4 min read . 22 Nov 2021

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It may prove costlier to combat than adapt to climate change

4 min read . 15 Nov 2021

What explains the IMF’s turn for pessimism on the Indian rupee?

4 min read . 08 Nov 2021

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Digitization could ease MSMEs’ access to supply-chain finance

4 min read . 01 Nov 2021

India improving its absolute score, but its rank slipped because others did better on the four parameters that go into the index, presumably (Photo: Mint)

The Global Hunger Index falls short on its own nutrient value

4 min read . 19 Oct 2021

The great hubris behind the Great Moderation and Reset

4 min read . 12 Oct 2021

Indian states have kept their schools shut for nearly two academic years. Some are re-opening now. (Photo: ANI)

Beware the trap of premature celebrations

4 min read . 05 Oct 2021

Evergrande: China may have left the barn door open for too long

4 min read . 27 Sep 2021

End quantitative easing policies for us to get a more equal world

4 min read . 20 Sep 2021

Chinese President Xi Jinping

China’s strategic ambitions and America’s exposed Achilles heel

4 min read . 14 Sep 2021

India’s digital architecture: From infrastructure to superstructure

4 min read . 07 Sep 2021

How private businesses imperil our health as well as prosperity

4 min read . 30 Aug 2021