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Ajit Ranade: RBI must not abandon headline inflation as its target

New Delhi, Aug. 25 -- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has invited comments from stakeholders on a discussion paper on the next five-yearly review of its monetary policy framework. This framework, call... Read More


Ajit Ranade: India must resolve its paradox of jobless graduates amid a scarcity of skills

New Delhi, July 28 -- India's gross enrolment ratio (GER) in higher education is at 28.3%, up by five percentage points in the past 10 years. This represents the proportion of those between the ages o... Read More


Ajit Ranade: A progressive GST is easier to promise than achieve

New Delhi, July 15 -- This month, India's goods and services tax (GST) completed eight years. This is a milestone reform. It is a consumption tax that unifies the national economic market, getting rid... Read More


Ajit Ranade: What Mamdani's rise in New York tells us about welfarism versus populism

New Delhi, June 30 -- The 33-year-old Uganda-born son of immigrants, Zohran Mamdani, defeated 67-year-old Andrew Cuomo, three-term governor of New York state, in the city's mayoral primary poll for a ... Read More


Ajit Ranade: West Asia's upheaval intensifies India's challenges of geopolitics

New Delhi, June 15 -- The world crossed a dangerous threshold on 13 June. Israel attacked Iran, targeting nuclear facilities, military bases and even residential zones in order to kill top military le... Read More


Ajit Ranade: The success of 'Made in China 2025' alarmed the West

New Delhi, June 2 -- An after-effect of the global financial crisis of 2008 was that by the following year, China's exports dropped by 16%. This led to widespread factory closures and mass layoffs in ... Read More