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...
Last week the IMF cut further its global (and national) forecasts for growth for this year (-4.9%) and next (+5.4%), which effectively means GDP will not return to its level in 2019 until 2022 globally...
Covid-19 and resultant disruption of economic activity and trade supply chain will lead to contagion call for boycotting China, taming its economic clouts, maiming its unethical medical and infrastructure diplomacy. Across the globe, some trade...
Despite the efforts of all the medical and scientific experts, much remains to be discovered about COVID-19. It is not life-threatening to most of us and yet highly contagious, with dire consequences for those it...
Over the past few decades, the Micro, Small, and Medium enterprise (MSME) sector have occupied a position of strategic importance in the Indian economic structure. This sector contributes nearly 28 percent of the country’s GDP,...
That Covid-19 comes from the city of Wuhan, China is in no doubt at this point. As new human flus come from Asia every year, almost in a pendulum-like fashion, but also avian flues, the...
Few countries and few governments are having a good crisis but some seem to be faring better than others as shown in the below figure, with the important caveat that the data is one week...
The topmost agenda and the much-needed attention from the Government today is addressing the farmers’ needs. In the recent years, crop failures, indebtedness, non-remunerative prices and low returns had taken, unpleasant shapes leading to protests...
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,...
The debate on equality and inequality is as old as human civilization. It has further deepened into the intellectual discourse with the advent of knowledge and technology-driven economy. In the intellectual climate and deeply rooted...
How much of tourism is too much? The question baffles avid travelers, particularly to India’s hill destinations which were designed to accommodate a limited number of people. According to India Tourism Statistics, between 2000 and...
While it is impossible to predict when a panic will occur and how long it will last, I hope this week’s price movements have not come as a complete surprise to you. Some, however, are...
