While the slump debate has focused mostly on monetary and fiscal policies, our monetary dynamics offer a crucial insight.

Analysis of trends in the ratio of working to non-working population shows that this ratio is likely to be higher than 1 until 2085. Further, there is a declining trend in projections of children below the age of 5 years. Taken together this suggests...

With China in the midst of a profound change in its economic model, India needs to work out how to make the most of it.

It was the pivot of a political economy strategy of the 1970s—when economic growth barely outpaced population growth.

The only homage paid to virtue, Lord Byron once said, is hypocrisy. The Indian political class has internalised this in letter and in spirit. Every party has a stance on defection and the stand depends on where they sit. 

Swanand Kelkar of Morgan Stanley Investment Management quotes Research Director and Senior Fellow, Niranjan Rajadhyaksha's recent paper on India's macroeconomic environment.

How can India put in place policy reforms to raise GDP growth without creating macroeconomic instability?

To keep up with the pressure of making headline fiscal deficit numbers look good, the government has increasingly resorted to off-budget financing for revenue as well as capital spending.

India works within an implicit '2-4-6-8' macro economic framework. What is that framework and does it now need to be reviewed?

This is an opportune time to revisit the 2-4-6-8 framework that sets economic targets for achieving sustained high growth.