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Do not let increasing heatwaves sap worker productivity in India

4 min read . 22 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

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

RBI has chosen two very different designs for the two variants of the new digital rupee. Photo: iStock

The e-rupee will yield demand-side learnings

4 min read . 14 Dec 2022

The political colour of the protests is important for the future of China's economy too. Photo: AFP

China’s economy is undergoing a profound structural slowdown

4 min read . 30 Nov 2022

The tricky bit for the MPC is to figure out whether it wants to use the interest rate solely to target inflation. Photo: Mint

Why the MPC should slow its pace of tightening

4 min read . 16 Nov 2022

An inflation surge generally tends to push up inflation expectations over the short term. Photo: Bloomberg

Why inflation usually retreats at a far slower pace than it goes up

4 min read . 02 Nov 2022

The exchange rate will soon have to play a bigger adjustment role

4 min read . 19 Oct 2022

Households still might not have spent down the entire stock of excess financial savings accumulated from April to September 2020. Photo: Mint

Will recovery in consumer demand hold?

4 min read . 06 Oct 2022

Indians were working 2.6 days in a week from home during the week of the survey, much above the global average of 1.5 days. Photo: HT

What Indians think of the work-from-home shift

4 min read . 21 Sep 2022

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The return of the supply side challenge

4 min read . 07 Sep 2022

Naïve inflation forecasts had a better record than inflation forecasts from sophisticated models. Photo: Bloomberg

At what point should central banks stop monetary tightening?

4 min read . 24 Aug 2022

What age has to do with a country’s economic fortunes

4 min read . 27 Jul 2022

What a batsman on a seaming wicket can teach RBI

4 min read . 13 Jul 2022

India’s economic constraints and an energy holdback to be eased

4 min read . 28 Jun 2022

The central bank’s balance sheet will shrink as it battles inflation

4 min read . 15 Jun 2022

India could be an upper middle income country within a decade

4 min read . 25 May 2022

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