The pandemic-induced economic slowdown has hit India hard. Prospects for the vehicle sector hang on the monsoon season and a successful vaccination campaign. India’s automotive sector, which contributes 7.1% of India’s gross domestic product (GDP), has...
With the announcement of INR 20 lakh core stimulus package to combat Covid-19 lead economic crisis, the buzz of demand creates supply or supply creates demand, once again knocking the window of intellectual battle. The...
Bottlenecks in the production of antiviral drug remdesivir have led to policymakers threatening compulsory licensing and economic sanctions. It’s a foretaste of what may come when a coronavirus vaccine becomes available. Last Friday, the European...
The (COVID-19) bell is tolling As COVID-19 wreaks its havoc, the end of John Donne’s poem ‘No man is an island’ (cited in the previous edition of Economic Insights) seems unhappily ever more appropriate. Alas,...
Manmohan Singh is a man of history today; but for a long time he was in the centre of economic policy making. When she was Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi had once told him to control...
