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Economic growth is — finally — a priority and the entrepreneur a key participant in that conversation.
As India and the ASEAN celebrate 25 years of their partnership, it is a politically opportune moment to upgrade India’s regional profile.
For an India that has had to make do with one part-time Defence Minister and another with his heart set on Goan Chief Ministership — Nirmala Sitharaman’s appointment comes at a crucial juncture.
Fixing manufacturing and acquisitions alone will not work. Nirmala Sitharaman needs to urgently tackle the need to reorganise India’s sprawling military to make them an effective fighting unit for 21st century warfare, where challenges range from nuclear armed adversaries to proxy jihadis.
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On 1 February, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will make her most important political economy speech
In the coming budget, concrete ideas of increasing women’s participation in the workforce should be included. There has to be an increased allocatio
While India handled the Doklam face-off with a great degree of maturity and restraint, India cannot afford to let its guard down.
Beyond the personal chemistry between political leaders forecasting bilateral ties, consultative platforms on the ministerial level like the US-India
The Interim Budget indicates that the economic thinking is in the right direction— India is slated to have capital-driven growth in the coming futur
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman budget remains unassuming in grand announcements, matter of fact in its outlook, and deglamorised in form—just t
The AI-climate change link is understudied, not least because the largest companies working in this space are neither transparent nor meaningfully committed to understanding it
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman seemed to be the chief protagonist of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of India becoming a $5 trillion econo
Since data has changed, there are only three words that should define Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget 2019 — growth, growth, growth.
What an economy generally needs from the government is to help catalyse entrepreneurial ideas and turn them into wealth, if not drive animal spirits.
While the focus on mental health is welcome, concentrating capacity to only a few institutions will affect the quantity and quality of mental healthca
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s fifth budget faces global challenges. She should leverage them and meet them head-on
The underlying philosophy behind this budget is to help India transition from entitlements to empowerment
G20 India aims to provide a global approach to realising common aspirations like a just green transition, renewed forms of multilateralism, digital
The Union Budget provides a boost to the energy transition but fails to address the critical need to synergise climate adaptation with India’s devel
With G20 ruling 2023, New Delhi is bound to utilise its development cooperation allocations for forging new alliances and establishing sustainable par
Digital India has made significant progress in transforming India into a digitally empowered society and Budget 2023 is making wider strides in the sa
While pushing the case for Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan, there exists a need to address those areas where India should aspire to develop and possess na
Amid rising debt, government bets that big infrastructure spending is not just growth-enhancing, but also popular
Keeping in line with the security needs of India, the defence budget saw a significant increase. Will this be enough to boost defence research and dev
The Budget continues to emphasise indigenisation, but the defence allocation is but a small increase from the previous fiscal
FM Nirmala Sitharaman’s first tranche of announcements of the fiscal stimulus for economic recovery closely follows PM Modi's vision of making the economy self-reliant.
Research and development in augmenting the capacities of the armed forced and border infrastructure have been given a focus in Budget 2023 by FM Nirma
The problem is that no political economy sensitive plan to implement these reforms has emerged.
Budget 2023 moves from the paradigm of women’s development to women-led development
The new numbers highlight New Delhi’s continued challenge of investing in its much-needed military modernization.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Interim Budget 2024 presents good macroeconomic numbers—and a strong political message of winning Elections
The best news in years is that India’s government finally seems to recognize the scale of the problems it faces.
