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A survival manual for small businesses

In the 1990s, low-priced Chinese brushes entered the US market. Initially, they were of poor quality, so American manufacturers were not worried.

Did Nirmala Sitharaman's second Budget just deprioritise the economy?

At a time like this, it becomes obligatory on the PM to bring a sense of purpose and stability to the whole polity of which the economy is the largest part

An African monetary union worth watching

Member-countries will need to work much harder to come anywhere close to the integration they are visualising with the common currency project. It is an important milestone in world monetary history

Tricky predictions: How users, producers may adapt to shared consumption

In collaborative systems, the role of the users may switch between ''consumers'' and ''producers''

When masses take over policy

The way our govt manages our economy - inflation, jobs, growth, interest rates - directly and indirectly affects us

Govt needs to forget fiscal prudence to revive demand: Shriram Transport MD

'the government should be little on the expansionary mode for two years', said Umesh Revankar, MD and CEO, Shriram Transport Finance

FM hints at I-T rate cuts, more stimulus measures to boost slowing economy

Says govt is taking steps towards a harassment-free taxation regime

Kashmir economy has lost Rs 15,000 cr since August, claims trade body

The Centre had repealed provisions of the article that gave special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, and bifurcated it into union territories of Ladakh, and Jammu and Kashmir

Is Sri Lanka the next Argentina?

Sri Lanka suffers from cleavages along many different lines, notably ideology, ethnicity, language, and religion

Debt trap, ethnic divide await Sri Lanka's new president Gotabaya Rajapaksa

The largest portion of the country's foreign debt is international sovereign bonds - 39 per cent of the total foreign debt as of 2017

India's competition magnifies as Sri Lanka, China join hands to take on IFC

China is present in a big way in Sri Lanka despite earning criticism for the unviable cost of signature projects

Start-ups play crucial role, giving growth impetus to economy: KPMG report

The report said the golden triangle of government, private sector and academia are important players who can provide the impetus needed to grow the start-up eco system

Ever heard of an economy growing at 86%? IMF just identified one such

South America's only English-speaking nation owes the anticipated windfall to offshore oil deposits discovered in 2015

India's growth rate to fall to 6%, will recover to 7.2% in 2022: World Bank

In 2018-19, it stood at 6.8%, down from 7.2% in the 2017-18 financial year

Why India's advertising market is losing space: Explained in four charts

Despite being a consumption-led economy, India's advertising market contributes just about 0.38 per cent to the country's GDP

Time to do away with fiscal responsibility law? No virtue in stipulating 3%

Target years for reaching the desired fiscal deficit are pushed back; and when FMs are unable to get close to targets, they fudge the books and push the burden on to hapless PSUs, writes T N Ninan

100 days of Modi 2.0: Glut of bad news on economy belies reform hopes

Days after the new Modi government was sworn-in, the benchmark indices climbed to all-time highs

Old troubles mar new term: A status check of Modi govt's 100 days

The first-quarter GDP data showed the economy losing steam

The sociology of the slowdown

The last economics guy to take sociology into account was Milton Friedman, says the author

From Shanghai to Dhaka, Asia should fix its megacities, not move them

In Indonesia, land-use controls were aggressively deregulated in the 1980s while entire sectors of the economy were opened up to direct investment