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        • Indian Economy’s Double Digit Chase For Growth

          Past prime ministers have tried to take the Indian GDP growth past 6–7% range but failed. Modi’s pitch for making India rich by 2047 is fraught with old and new dangers

          Neeraj Thakur - January 29, 2023
        • At About 5–6%, Economy Won’t Collapse But It Won’t Generate Enough Jobs: Montek Singh Ahluwalia

          Economist and former deputy chairman of the erstwhile Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia tells Neeraj Thakur that a private sector-led economy can deliver sustained GDP growth in the country. However, he is not enthused about the much-touted double-digit growth or even a range of 7–7.5% and cautions against protectionism

          Neeraj Thakur - January 30, 2023
        • Markets Work On Expectations … Not Surprising They Outpace Economy: Radhika Gupta

          Indian stock markets have given returns in double digits over a 30-year average. This has not been the case with the Indian economy. Going forward, even as the growth outlook for India remains limited to 5–7%, the stock markets continue to be bullish. Neeraj Thakur speaks with Radhika Gupta, MD and CEO, Edelweiss Mutual Fund, to understand the divergence between the economy and the markets. Edited excerpts:

          Neeraj Thakur - January 30, 2023
        • India’s Digital Winning Like A Frankenstein

          India is an aspirational digital state. It wants to belong to the connected world like a leader despite its limitations of being a low-middle-income economy, having a large number of poor people, large illiteracy levels and less-than-reliable telecom infrastructure. Will the government’s push from the top create a national digital blueprint or turn the country into Charlie Chaplin’s Feeding Machine?

          Nishant - December 31, 2022
        • RBI’s Unsure Walk With E-Rupee

          The central bank’s discourse on CBDC is caught between its abhorrence for private digital currencies and FOMO on innovation in global financial order. Its cautious steps on e-rupee may conceptually sit well with a government that wants a digitised economy, but they put a question mark on the bank’s intent on the ground 

          Neeraj Thakur - December 31, 2022
        • Doing Good Is Good Business

          When a corporation pushes its energies and helps resolve social sector challenges through its engagement, it indirectly stimulates its own business development

          Rajashree Birla - November 01, 2022
        • India Ain’t No Cheap Labour Anymore

          E-economy and platform-based job discovery are making jobs accessible at great cost-benefit to employers and employees

          Guruprasad Srinivasan - October 31, 2022
        • The Unique Factors That Can Make India A Digital Economy Powerhouse

          India has many sunshine sectors—like ecommerce, autotech, vernacular content, healthtech, fintech, edtech, creator economy, supply chain, space, defense and electric vehicles—on which its growth trajectory rests

          Sandeep Aggarwal - October 31, 2022
        • Coal Killer

          How it is Indians Vs Indians in the race for a green economy

          Neeraj Thakur - August 27, 2022
        • A Trillion-Dollar Code For Uttar Pradesh

          Chasing the $1 trillion economy dream by 2027, Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh awaits a change that goes beyond an infrastructural push

          Kamalika Ghosh - August 27, 2022