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

Indian policy makers' response to the US China trade war needs to encompass trade, investment, tax, regulatory, exchange rate policies

The Modi government has thus far failed to match the economic growth record of its Congress-led predecessor

The global trade and financial regimes were wrongly conflated by both supporters and critics of globalization, in the public discourse.

The journey from systemic somnolence to stated “concern” to panic depends on the velocity of volatility and the momentum of events. 

The trade-off with Trumponomics is a complex cocktail of geopolitics and economics

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.

Donald Trump’s intuition that US economic might could be used to extract more gains from trading partners is not necessarily wrong

Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu has been making all the right noises in the lead-up to the forthcoming Eleventh Ministerial Conference of WTO.

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.