This essay examines how the world economy actually performed in 2025—its achievements, its missed opportunities, and its policy shortcomings—and then turns decisively to the global economic and developmental prospects for 2026. It argues that the...
The Indian economy exits calendar year 2025 having demonstrated an important, if understated, achievement: it held the line in an increasingly fragmented and uncertain global environment. Growth in India remained robust by international standards, inflation...
Economic experts have slightly raised their expectations for global economic recovery based on fresh economic data. The Paris-based organization foresaw economic expansion of 2.7%, up from 2.6% in its last report in March. Despite the improvement,...
The Indian Rupee (INR) is surprisingly strong proving many analysts wrong. In a world where emerging market currencies experience decline, the INR has been appreciating steadily. From a low of Rs.68.77/USD in Feb 2016, the...
US: The broad characteristics of the investment climate are unlikely to change very much in the first part of next year. The largest policy change is the beginning of the long awaited slowing of the Federal Reserve’s...
For those of you who caught the Internet wave in the mid-90s, it is highly possible that one of your first email addresses was created with Hotmail. Microsoft launched its email service “Hotmail” in the...