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
It Is Too Early to Celebrate India’s New Growth Path, Says Raghuram Rajan
Former RBI governor and economist Raghuram Rajan has been vocal about his ideas on policy matters in India. His latest book Breaking the Mould, co-authored with economist Rohit Lamba, is a deep dive into finer issues of the economy, including welfare schemes, job crisis, misplaced priorities of the government and much more. In an interview, Rajan demystifies the current narrative of growth in the country and why manufacturing-led growth might not be the best solution at hand. Edited excerpts:
Abdul Haleem Sherif - December 29, 2023
Crisis in the Courtroom
The Supreme Court’s jurisdiction extends to a population of over 1.4 billion. Does the court make access for the disadvantaged a priority? To what extent is it responsible for the adage ‘justice delayed is justice denied’? Are some lawyers more influential than the others? Authors Aparna Chandra, Sital Kalantry and William H.J. Hubbard discuss these and several other topics concerning the country’s highest court in their book Court on Trial
July 28, 2023
Growing Responsibly
With the worsening climate crisis and mounting pressure to cut down global carbon emissions, countries are being forced to rethink their growth strategies to make them environmentally sustainable. Srivatsan Iyer, global chief executive officer of renewable energy producer Hero Future Energies, talks about five ways in which India can achieve its climate action goals while meeting its economic growth needs
June 30, 2023
Till Debt Do Us Apart: The Crisis at Byju's
Running out of capital runway, Byju’s has turned to venture debt financing to keep the lights on at the edtech. Will this working capital infusion help it become profitable or will it get caught in a debt spiral?
Vinita Bhatia - May 30, 2023
Guarantee Void in MGNREGA: The Crisis In Universal Rural Job Scheme
From being the lifeline of the country’s rural economy whenever it went into distress and subject of political claims and blame, the MGNREGA scheme is facing unusual times, leaving workers and activists worried
Rajat Mishra - April 29, 2023
Climate Plans Lost In Data Matrix
Data gaps are throwing a spanner in the works for a world which is falling distressingly short of commitments to slow down, if not reverse, rapidly deteriorating global climate conditions and India is not an outlier
Shailaja Tripathi - March 28, 2023
Warrior Moms: A Mom’s Last Word On Clean Air
Bhavreen Kandhari’s group Warrior Moms is a pan-India advocacy body of mothers which has taken up the mantle to make the government answerable for the air pollution crisis across the country
Shonakshi Chakravarty - November 29, 2022
Cautious March Of Decoupled Indian Markets Continues
The Indian outperformance has been on the back of strong regular retail investor flows through the route of systematic investment plan into mutual funds and Indian markets
Ajay Bagga - October 31, 2022
A Lankan Build-Up In India
As Sri Lanka grapples with an economic crisis owing to botched economic policies and unmanageable debt, alarm bells are going off in some states in India
Kamalika Ghosh - May 28, 2022