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Humble leaders, please

This is one of those crises where it does not only matter that you do something, but how you do it

The wrong diagnosis

Calls for fiscal stimulus and monetary overreach will not help deal with the pandemic's economic consequences

Time to read

It's possible you want to escape the reality of what's happening to the world - countrywide shutdowns, worry and concern, divided politicians

No time for a stimulus

Covid-19 is not like the 2008 global financial crisis. It is a crisis of a very different sort. You can't spend your way out of it

The uses of violence

The disinformation that accompanies the violence is of a typically high order, as befits an operation that has been at the cutting edge of the 21st century's alternative-facts breakthroughs

To what extent will coronavirus outbreak rewire global trade dynamics?

Unless mainland China somehow manages a swift recovery, historians of globalisation will view this moment as a watershed

Economic Survey: 'Counter-cyclical fiscal policy' to boost demand justified

The Survey places primary blame for the slowdown on global factors, saying 'the deceleration of India's GDP growth since 2017 has tracked the decline in world output'

The Republic remains alive

Far from being distant, wordy and inaccessible, the Constitution today is becoming a popular document for large sections of India, just as it always was for Dalits.

Eat before reading

Book review of The Indian Pantry

The politics of cool

However much the government and its outreach community might insist it is merely an enabling act, it is hard to see it as anything but the first step towards a constitutionally Hindu nation

India's stranded workers

Across the world, workforces 'stranded' by technological, regulatory, or climatic change have become politically crucial to the rise of populism

India's dark road

The public, political and media culture in much of north India has rotted away. The media responds to public bloodthirstiness by exaggerating the violence of protests

The populists march on

The larger question for observers of politics worldwide is where British result fits into the broader narrative about the upsurge in populism and right-wing nationalism

Status revoked

There will always be ever more stringent loyalty tests, and at some point everyone with a soul will fail to clear at least one

In economics of helping the poor, Abhijit Banerjee gives clear answers

Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer together have launched a movement within development economics

Projecting a pipeline

One way of helping project finance revive in India is by demystifying risk - and the government has just taken a useful step in that direction

Einsteinian economics

If this is how the government is thinking, then we are in real trouble, says the author

Breaking down companies

In today's world, who do companies really have to respond to?

Budget 2019: Fiscally correct, but familiar tax targets

FM rationalises revenue estimates, squeezes capex ; focuses on repairing financial sector and ease of paying taxes

'Indian' agenda for Modi 2.0: Eco Survey projects 7% GDP growth in 2019-20

The Survey praised the government's performance on the provision of certain last-mile goods, combined with behavioural changes