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Opinion: Mythili Bhusnurmath How does one read GDP numbers for Q2 2021-22? In keeping with Miles’ Law — Where you stand depends on where you sit — the reactions from GoI and the Opposition to the data released on Tuesday were entirely predictable. Triumphalism from government and murmurs about the shine lent to the numbers by...   Read More

The NCAER Business Expectations Survey (BES) closely tracked firms throughout the pandemic period on a quarterly basis trying to understand the challenges that they faced how they adapted and whether they were able to leverage government benefits targeted at them. After the second COVID-19 wave business sentiments recovered in 2021–22:Q2 as compared to those prevailing...   Read More

The demographic dividend is smaller but will last longer due to regional variation in the onset of fertility decline. As southern states struggle with the growing burden of supporting the elderly northern states will supply the workforce needed for growth. Success brings its challenges. The first challenge is accepting the win the second is to...   Read More

Opinion: K P Krishnan  Financial regulation is about striking the right balance between enabling innovation and ensuring customer protection. Cryptocurrencies or more correctly crypto-assets may be a nightmare for regulatory policy but they are a columnist’s delight! The number of op-ed words on this topic just in the recent weeks may now equal the purported...   Read More

India needs to emphasise to the world where its scorecard is better than many of the developed countries who frequently lecture India on emission flows. Recently yet another COPs meeting was held in Glasgow. Compared to the low-key meetings in the last couple of years this year’s meeting seems to have ended on a high...   Read More

The World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as “a state of complete physical mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” The role of health as an engine of economic growth is not entirely unsubstantiated. Investments in health care lead to better healthier lives for the populace which in turn...   Read More

While large farmers can be given insurance small and marginal farmers can be provided with assurance In view of the rain-induced crop damage in the southern States crop insurance is once again likely to come into focus. Majority of the agricultural households (70 per cent) own land less than one hectare (2018-19). Farmers are vulnerable...   Read More

India could nudge the US and China towards a win-win rather than zero-sum relationship on the critical issues we all face. Way back in 1972 a study on ‘The Limits of Growth’ commissioned by The Club of Rome had issued a dire Malthusian warning that without significant curbs on the observed pattern of resource consumption...   Read More

Opinion: Mythili Bhusnurmath This is not the first time Das has urged caution on cryptos. His speech on Tuesday coming days after the PM convened a meeting on the issue last Saturday draws an important distinction between using technologies like blockchain for economic progress and for mining cryptos. Karl Marx today may well have said ‘Cryptocurrency...   Read More

NCAER Professor, Sonalde Desai, who holds a joint appointment as Distinguished University Professor at University of Maryland, has recently been appointed to the Committee on Population of the National Academy of Sciences based in Washington, D.C. The Committee on Population was established by the Academy in 1983 to bring the knowledge and methods of the...   Read More