Best of BS Opinion: China gaining traction, corporate frauds, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Findings of the latest Asia Power Index by the Lowy Institute, Australia’s most respected think tank, shows that India’s overall score declined by 1.3 points compared to 2019. Lowy damns India, Asia’s third largest economy, with faint praise by describing it as a “middle power”. But China is gaining traction. Our lead editorial talks about how India can play the game when it is losing ground. Read here
 

Other opinion pieces talk about the Hunger Index, flexible fiscal deficit targeting, and securities market regulation.

The conclusions of this year’s Global Hunger Index are grave enough to underscore the need for revamping the country’s food security-related programmes, argues our second editorial