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Shankar Acharya

Shankar Acharya

Shankar Acharya

Shankar Acharya is a veteran economist and the chancellor of Andhra Pradesh Central University. He served as India's longest-serving chief economic advisor (CEA), advising three successive finance ministers: (Late) Dr Manmohan Singh, P Chidambaram, and Yashwant Sinha over a span of eight years. He also served as a member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi). He has also worked at the World Bank, where he led the team for the World Development Report 1979 and later served as a research advisor to the Bank. He has a Ph.D from Harvard University and a B.A. from Oxford University.

Shankar Acharya is a veteran economist and the chancellor of Andhra Pradesh Central University. He served as India's longest-serving chief economic advisor (CEA), advising three successive finance ministers: (Late) Dr Manmohan Singh, P Chidambaram, and Yashwant Sinha over a span of eight years. He also served as a member of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi). He has also worked at the World Bank, where he led the team for the World Development Report 1979 and later served as a research advisor to the Bank. He has a Ph.D from Harvard University and a B.A. from Oxford University.

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Shankar Acharya: Myanmar - India's neglected neighbour

Engagement with Myanmar does not reflect its importance to us

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Updated On : 01 Mar 2013 | 3:30 PM IST

Shankar Acharya: Gandhian legacies

Indira Gandhi's economic choices four decades ago still hobble India. What will this government's structural legacy be?

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 7:53 PM IST

Shankar Acharya: Fiscal consolidation - how real?

Despite earnest government statements, fiscal correction is still distant

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 6:49 PM IST

Shankar Acharya: Reforms resurgent?

It's too early to assess their effect on real investment and output

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 5:45 PM IST

Shankar Acharya: Macro signals flashing red

The Indian economy is stumbling towards a major crisis, but who cares?

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 4:35 PM IST

Shankar Acharya: Crises still building

Four crises - of liquidity, growth, employment and thus of national security - continue to threaten India's future

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 3:29 PM IST

Shankar Acharya: Myanmar's economy - some glimpses

The country has potential as a manufacturing destination - but it needs to get its data in order

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 1:32 PM IST

Shankar Acharya: The exchange rate: economics bites back

Europe isn't the principal reason for the rupee's fall -- the deterioration in our economic policies in recent years is

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 12:41 PM IST

Shankar Acharya: The unravelling

India's progress has fallen victim to multiple ministerial fiefdoms and an ineffectual Cabinet

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 11:49 AM IST

Shankar Acharya: Hope vs experience

How you see Budget 2012 depends on whether you are an eternal optimist or an inveterate pessimist

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 11:24 AM IST

Shankar Acharya: Roosting chickens, building crises

The politically expedient sins of UPA-I and UPA-II have caused the mounting problems of 2012

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Updated On : 02 Feb 2013 | 11:05 AM IST