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Business News > Mint Authors > Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

Niranjan Rajadhyaksha

Mint Author

ARTICLES BY NIRANJAN RAJADHYAKSHA

Christine Lagarde spoke on how policymakers need to negotiate what she described as an age of shifts and breaks and called for clarity, flexibility and humility.

The reliability of economic forecasts has been questioned again

4 min read . 23 Jan 2024

Strong growth in taxes over the past three years not only helped the government keep its borrowing in check, but also gave it financial space to increase spending on infrastructure. (ANI)

India's fiscal policy over the past five years has much to commend it

4 min read . 09 Jan 2024

This column usually drifts away from its usual concerns at the end of every year, to cover some broader issues that get crowded out by the news cycle. (Photo: istockphoto)

Why do we work? This question arises again as AI eyes our jobs

4 min read . 26 Dec 2023

Public goods matter in the poverty debate, though what Gethin writes about in his paper includes merit subsidies such as spending on healthcare, education and housing, in addition to pure public goods such as police services and roads.

Public goods aid poverty reduction but it needs sustained economic growth too

4 min read . 12 Dec 2023

Global supply chains are being rewired because of the geopolitical tussle between the US and China. (AFP)

The US-China decoupling is slow going but still offers India opportunities

4 min read . 14 Nov 2023

Not all the digital (Automation and Artificial Intelligence) jobs have to reside within IT firms. Software engineers with such skills are increasingly choosing to work at tech start-ups. Photo: Bloomberg

A sustained consumption boom is far from assured yet

4 min read . 31 Oct 2023

Economists at the Reserve Bank of India estimated earlier this year that the Indian economy will need to grow at a compounded rate of 7.6% a year for the country to reach developed country status by 2047.

The world economy is slowing even as India’s provides hope

4 min read . 18 Oct 2023

MS Swaminathan played a central role in the transition of our country from begging bowl to bread basket.

Lessons of the Green Revolution could aid our climate transition

4 min read . 03 Oct 2023

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