Author - Shankar Acharya | Business Standard

10-Nov-2021 | Shankar Acharya

Dualism and its discontents

Employed vs jobless, formal vs informal, urban vs rural-the pandemic has exacerbated the divide, with lasting consequences for the economy

22-Sep-2021 | Shankar Acharya

The VW recovery and beyond

Covid scars may outweigh growth gains from reforms in the medium term

19-Aug-2021 | Shankar Acharya

Vajpayee yrs set ground for UPA era economic growth: Shankar Acharya's book

Vajpayee's political achievement in greatly advancing economic reforms was perhaps even more admirable than Rao's, writes Shankar Acharya in his new book

08-Jul-2021 | Shankar Acharya

The greatest general of the 20th century

His name doesn't crop up in readily available rankings, but his under-resourced and underfed army prevailed over the world's mightiest super power

10-Jun-2021 | Shankar Acharya

'Winners' and 'losers' from Covid-19

China is a clear winner; US a distant second; Europe and the UK are among the losers; India an also-ran

12-May-2021 | Shankar Acharya

Economic Outlook for 2021-22

Outlook beset by uncertainties, but GDP in 2021-22 likely to be lower than in 2019-20

21-Apr-2021 | Shankar Acharya

Fifty years ago…

How a briefing paper from Harvard nourished the seeds of an independent Bangladesh in the US

10-Feb-2021 | Shankar Acharya

A decent Budget but big challenges remain

Budget assures double-digit growth in FY22, but does little for unemployment, inflation, foreign trade and medium-term growth

13-Jan-2021 | Shankar Acharya

2021: Dark clouds and silver linings

Fresh hopes on the economic, health and political front temper the grim legacy of 2020

10-Dec-2020 | Shankar Acharya

Towards Budget 2021-22

The budget-making exercise offers golden opportunities despite challenges

26-Nov-2020 | Shankar Acharya

A subsidy-tariff-permit raj?

If each PLI scheme is to be run by different ministries it's easy to envisage a hydra-headed bureaucracy

27-Oct-2020 | Shankar Acharya

Through a crystal ball, darkly

Likely slow economic growth in the medium term will be bad for jobs, social harmony and defence capabilities

09-Sep-2020 | Shankar Acharya

India's road to economic recovery will be a long, hard and painful one

Real GDP in 2021-22 will be lower than in 2019-20 and the economic, social and strategic consequences will be profoundly negative

09-Sep-2020 | Shankar Acharya

Recovery: A long hard road

Real GDP in 2021-22 will be lower than in 2019-20

03-Jul-2020 | Shankar Acharya

China's India strategy

This piece, carried in Business Standard 14 years ago on May 9, 2006, made certain forecasts which have proved correct. We are republishing the article