July 16, 2020
Why India must remain vocal for global
Embracing economic isolation at this point will be a strategic mistake. India must seize global opportunities, must avoid the middle-income trap and should not be afraid to engage with the world
November 01, 2018
How India should play the trade war
Indian policy makers' response to the US China trade war needs to encompass trade, investment, tax, regulatory, exchange rate policies
September 25, 2018
Trade liberalization folly: From high road to low road
The Modi government has thus far failed to match the economic growth record of its Congress-led predecessor
September 17, 2018
Rise of populism is lasting legacy of Lehman crisis
The global trade and financial regimes were wrongly conflated by both supporters and critics of globalization, in the public discourse.
September 03, 2018
Repetitive Rhetoric and Raging Rupee
The journey from systemic somnolence to stated “concern” to panic depends on the velocity of volatility and the momentum of events.
June 11, 2018
India’s trade-off with Trumponomics
The trade-off with Trumponomics is a complex cocktail of geopolitics and economics
March 27, 2018
Trump or Dare and Trade War Games
The cliché about Trump is that during the elections those who opposed him took him literally but not seriously, while his supporters took him seriously but not literally.
March 13, 2018
Donald Trump, trade wars, and optimum tariffs
Donald Trump’s intuition that US economic might could be used to extract more gains from trading partners is not necessarily wrong
December 04, 2017
Suresh Prabhu’s Buenos Aires Tango
Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu has been making all the right noises in the lead-up to the forthcoming Eleventh Ministerial Conference of WTO.
July 31, 2017
The Analogy Between Richard Nixon and Donald Trump
Like Richard Nixon, US President Donald Trump has bared the fangs of America’s economic might, and threatened to tear up trade deals left and right.