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Himanshu: How India's farm sector could end up as a major casualty of the conflict in West Asia

New Delhi, March 19 -- The war in West Asia has raised geopolitical vulnerabilities. These are not only affecting countries in the region that are directly or indirectly involved in the war, but also ... Read More


India's new GDP series is an upgrade but it leave a few questions on the economy unanswered

New Delhi, March 5 -- Last week, India's statistics ministry released its first estimates of gross domestic product (GDP) and other associated national accounts data with 2022-23 as the base year for ... Read More


Data tools mustn't get rusty: India must institutionalize regular statistical revisions

New Delhi, Feb. 19 -- The first estimates of inflation based on the revised series of India's Consumer Price Index (CPI) were released last week. The new CPI series uses 2024 as the base year. Accordi... Read More


Why policymakers simply cannot afford to neglect India's vast agricultural sector

New Delhi, Feb. 5 -- Going by the national accounts, if there is one sector that seems to have done well in recent years, it is agriculture. As the Economic Survey also notes, the sector as a whole ha... Read More


India's inequality problem won't be solved by freebies-it needs long-term solutions

New Delhi, Jan. 22 -- The G-20 presidency of South Africa ended last November with the release of a report on global inequality. It was authored by a G-20 committee of independent experts chaired by N... Read More


India's Goldilocks economy isn't serving everybody well-deflation has left rural parts in distress

New Delhi, Jan. 8 -- Last month, the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) governor characterized the Indian economy as being in a "Goldilocks phase," implying a fortuitous period of low inflation and high gr... Read More


India's rural employment guarantee offered the poor a job security net that's about to weaken

New Delhi, Dec. 25 -- Last week, Parliament repealed the two-decade old Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) and passed the Viksit Bharat-Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika ... Read More