How the US President is disposed towards India is hard to decode. He has again called us out for our tariffs. While we do need to ease trade barriers, the aim must be to boost Indian competitiveness.
1 min read29 Jan 2025In recent months, economists in the Indian government had underscored the need for attracting FDI from China to boost India’s manufacturing sector.
3 min read10 Dec 2024The strained relationship between the president-elect and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stands to complicate Canada’s ability to navigate a second Trump term.
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5 min read7 Nov 2024Industrial policy may have got rebranded as industrial strategy, but we still need a global dialogue on the proper place for industrial strategy in a country’s policy framework, or else we can expect many more ruinously expensive pale pachyderms.
5 min read15 Sep 2024Faced with stagnating growth, Xi Jinping decided to go all in on manufacturing—and much of that production is destined for export.
10 min read23 Aug 2024India needs to resolve internal differences over self-reliance and revise import tariffs in line with those of other emerging market economies. The country must also join free-trade arrangements and adopt a more flexible approach to trade and investment talks.
7 min read7 Aug 2024Trade between the Asian giants has grown robustly in the past five years from around $80 billion.
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16 Aug 2023The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared
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