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...
Nobel economics prize went to three researchers from the United States, Canada and France for explaining how technological progress leads to prosperity. Economists from the US, Canada and France were awarded this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in economics on...
For months, there has been speculation that the United States and Russia want the Nord Stream gas pipelines repaired and flowing again. The question remains whether Germany might agree. As the war in Ukraine grinds...
Despite the current scary surge in the pandemic, the worst of the economic damage is done even if the pace and scale of the recovery around the globe are far from clear.The UK is one...
IBS Mumbai is proud to have organized its International Conference on Finance and Economics on 5 April, 2019 on the theme, “Reform, Regulation and Revival of Finance Sector in India” under the leadership and guidance...
The gap between the rich and the poor has been widening in most countries. Economists are analyzing the potential consequences, among them pundits at the IMF which is holding its spring meeting in Washington this...
Competition regulation and its context and relevance in an emerging market like India: Why should markets be regulated? Understanding Monopoly, Oligopoly and the need for Regulation. Competition, in the context of economics, means the contest/rivalry...
Donald Trump in the US and rising populist parties in Europe – 2016 wasn’t a good year for advocates of free trade. Recent studies have identified some key aspects of globalization that nativists fear most....
Eugene Fama, Robert J. Shiller and Lars Peter Hansen dare to predict the future. Now they were awarded the Nobel Prize for their research on how to predict shares and index developments. “This years’ prize...
Our policymakers are pushing a US-UK economic model, driven by financial markets rather than banks. But our people, like Germans and Japanese, would have none of it. At the G20 summit in April 2009 where...
“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who...
