A Nation Stuck Between Missing Jobs and Growth Ambitions
India grapples with a job crisis fuelled by factors including high youth unemployment, educational and skill imbalance and low female participation, among others. In their book, The Elephant Moves: India’s New Place in the World, Amitabh Kant and Amit Kapoor explore India’s economic evolution through the lens of competitiveness, stressing the need for, and challenges to, policy changes in its run to becoming a developed economy by 2047
March 01, 2024
Amitabh Kant: The Sherpa’s Trek
The former Indian Administrative Service officer has been at the helm of important assignments of the government for long. However, during India’s G20 presidency, his role as India’s sherpa in building consensus among disagreeing nations amid geopolitical volatility has been a gamechanger
Abdul Haleem Sherif - December 01, 2023
A Painful Commute
Niti Aayog claims India has low per capita car ownership but heavy traffic congestion shows otherwise
September 25, 2017
"SMEs need to leapfrog using technology"
Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant believes it’s imperative for enterprises to go global
August 28, 2017
The road to nowhere
Given India’s tryst with infrastructure, the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor project is already on shaky ground
Kandula Subramaniam - August 04, 2015
Can Modi turn Indian manufacturing's whimper turn into a roar?
An on-the-ground account from the World Economic Forum's annual meeting at Davos
V Keshavdev - May 08, 2015