India’s food security system is often showcased as a triumph of scale: more than 800 million people receive free rice and wheat under the National Food Security Act....
Few ideas in economics have travelled as far — or as controversially — as the Laffer Curve. Whether or not economist Arthur Laffer actually sketched it on a...
India’s economy is growing fast — clocking over 8% GDP growth in mid-2025 — and the country has become the world’s fourth-largest economy. Yet beneath these impressive numbers...
The passage of the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rojgar and Ajeevika Mission (VB-G Ram G) Bill has reopened an old but unresolved debate about India’s flagship rural employment...
The Delhi government’s decision to roll out a revamped electric vehicle (EV) policy next year reflects both progress in clean mobility and the limits of relying on EV...
India’s economic resilience has stood out in recent years, but beneath the headline growth numbers lies a persistent fault line: wide disparities in performance across states. Per capita...
Last week’s European Union summit in Brussels marked a turning point in Europe’s handling of the Ukraine war. Instead of seizing Russia’s frozen sovereign assets — estimated at...
When Indians imagine the country in 2047, the centenary of Independence, the picture is often dominated by gleaming infrastructure, high-speed connectivity and a $40-trillion economy. But the real...
India’s macroeconomic trajectory is inseparable from the performance of its states. National GDP is, in effect, the aggregate of state gross domestic products (GSDPs), which means that faster...
