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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
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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
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10-Dec-2020 | Shankar Acharya
Towards Budget 2021-22
The budget-making exercise offers golden opportunities despite challenges
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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
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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
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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
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09-Sep-2020 | Shankar Acharya
Recovery: A long hard road
Real GDP in 2021-22 will be lower than in 2019-20
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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
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11-Jun-2020 | Shankar Acharya
GDP: Growth vs levels
India's GDP is unlikely to recover to its 2019-20 level until the second half of 2021-22
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14-May-2020 | Shankar Acharya
The lockdown hammer
Keeping the economy locked costs lives too and it may not be a price worth paying
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08-Apr-2020 | Shankar Acharya
End lockdown or not?
Extending the lockdown could lead to more deaths
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12-Mar-2020 | Shankar Acharya
Travels with Montek
An absorbing account of India's economic policies over the last 40 years
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12-Feb-2020 | Shankar Acharya
Some thoughts on the Budget
The four key features of the Budget: Context, transparency, expansionary and protectionist
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09-Jan-2020 | Shankar Acharya
The darkening sky
Shadows of the events in 2019 will loom large over the world and India
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12-Dec-2019 | Shankar Acharya
Why neglect exports?
India's exports are held back more by our inadequate policies than by any stagnation in world trade
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18-Nov-2019 | Shankar Acharya
The jobs crisis worsens
Economic slowdown is only partially to blame for the rise in unemployment. The principal reason is weak policies
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09-Oct-2019 | Shankar Acharya
Corporate tax cuts and growth
Reduced rates will have little impact in the short run, but could have a significant positive impact on growth in the medium term
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11-Sep-2019 | Shankar Acharya
Growth prospects dim
Given India's policy and institutional constraints, it will be difficult to significantly accelerate economic growth from present rates
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08-Aug-2019 | Shankar Acharya
How fast is India growing?
With corporate earnings not meeting expectations and automobile sales plunging in July 2019, the story could get uglier
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10-Jul-2019 | Shankar Acharya
Budget and macro challenges
There is little in the Budget to provide the necessary growth impetus to take the economy to $5 trillion
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13-Jun-2019 | Shankar Acharya
Confronting macro challenges
With key macro indicators flashing amber or red, business as usual is not an option
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08-May-2019 | Shankar Acharya
Populous Asia: A 40-year retrospect
In 1980, Indonesia was the most prosperous. Today, China is streets ahead of the rest
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10-Apr-2019 | Shankar Acharya
Macroeconomic priorities for new govt
It will have to contend with some key challenges that do not figure in the election manifestos
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13-Feb-2019 | Shankar Acharya
India slips into a pre-Keynesian world
We must improve our statistical systems or be condemned to make policy in the smoky haze of inadequate and politically filtered data
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09-Jan-2019 | Shankar Acharya
Some macroeconomic musings for 2019
The challenges of growth and job-creation in 2019 look quite daunting
