Asit Ranjan Mishra

The IMF raised its FY27 growth forecast for India, citing resilient domestic demand and robust services activity, and lifted its FY28 projection to 7 per cent from 6.7 per cent

GST Council proposes curbs on transit-state inspections, while pushing wider e-invoicing, stronger data analytics and a facilitative approach to tax compliance

Swedish economist Daniel Waldenström argues that education, broader asset ownership and growth-led redistribution are key to tackling inequality

Bandhan Group founder Chandra Shekhar Ghosh discusses microcredit, women entrepreneurs and digital lending, stressing relationship-based lending and expansion into insurance and technology

Move aims to address a key administrative problem faced by large businesses with operations spread across multiple locations

Officials expect the rate structure to be reviewed only once a year henceforth, and any changes will take effect from April 1, not in the middle of the financial year

If we can sustain our growth rates, I think the inflow of risk capital is also likely to persist, says Neelkanth Mishra, India's executive director at the World Bank

Mishra says India must remain open while limiting vulnerability, balancing resilience costs with energy security, competitive manufacturing and diversified trade

'Don't take growth for granted amid global shocks'

India must work on ensuring that the economy is more competition-friendly rather than business-friendly, says the report

India is projected to move from an aged to a super-aged society in 16 years, as emerging economies face rising pension and healthcare costs at lower income levels

As India's economic weight and import demand rise, WTO members are increasingly scrutinising how its tariffs, export curbs, QCOs and domestic regulations affect global markets

BRICS leaders stopped short of endorsing concrete steps on payment-system interoperability and local-currency trade, leaving India's long-running push without a firm action plan

The reference to unilateral trade and finance-related actions is significant as the US has pursued sweeping tariff measures against trading partners

WTO review exposes trade concerns among BRICS partners, with China, Indonesia and Brazil seeking greater predictability and fewer barriers in India's trade regime

Nitin Desai says India's reform ideas predated 1991, but the bigger challenge now is boosting manufacturing and new businesses to create jobs and move workers out of agriculture

Raise concerns over high tariffs, QCOs, digital trade curbs

Former NSC chief Rajeeva Karandikar defends India's new GDP series, calling for greater transparency while rejecting claims of data manipulation

Pronab Sen, the first chief statistician of India, in a telephonic conversation with Asit Ranjan Mishra, explains his key concern about the latest gross domestic product (GDP) data and the criticism h

C Rangarajan says reforms are a continuous process and we need new measures to tackle new challenges