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India Inc must only cheer growth, not question it
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 22/05/2024
» Large parts of corporate India aren't exactly feeling the economy's world-beating growth performance. But woe to those who dare to question it.
China, India: 2 faces of liquidity
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 31/01/2024
» Lenders in the world's two most populous nations are having very different problems with monetary and fiscal taps. In China, creditors are drowning in cheap central bank cash, but loan demand is muted. In India, banks are in the middle of their fastest expansion in a decade, but they're parched for liquidity.
When can we expect to see India Inc's moonshots?
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 25/08/2023
» Now that India has become the first country in the world to land a spacecraft near the moon's south pole -- for less than half the money Christopher Nolan spent on the movie, Interstellar -- its risk-averse private sector will hopefully be inspired to launch some moonshots of its own. Just beating investor expectations next quarter won't get them ahead in the long game in artificial intelligence or new materials and energy.
Why India risks falling way behind in the AI race
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 03/07/2023
» India's tech industry is being less than bold in embracing artificial intelligence. It's hoping to create solutions for corporate clients by building on top of somebody else's investment in foundational technologies, hardly a strategy for pathbreaking success.
Covid's real cost could well be eternal spying
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 11/05/2020
» Much of our pre-coronavirus lives may be reclaimable with some modifications around how we work, socialise and travel. In one crucial way, though, the post-pandemic landscape will be very different: The individual's autonomy over her data may be lost forever. Our mobiles will keep us safe -- by spying on us.
Ageing Singapore tries to avoid the Japan trap
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 20/02/2019
» Japan has aged; Singapore is ageing. Japan's workforce is shrinking; Singapore's has plateaued. Japan's homogeneous society has struggled with immigration; Singapore's island culture has been welcoming of foreigners, though increasingly less so.
The liquidity squeeze in Asia is the worst since 2008
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 27/11/2018
» Liquidity is getting tight in Asia.
Lessons to be learnt from India's debt-ridden projects
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 18/09/2018
» It was as a newspaper-office intern in New Delhi in 1992 that I witnessed the birth of India's homegrown belt-and-road initiative. The programme was midwifed by an up-and-coming lender that few had then heard of: Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd.
No Chinese belt, road or bedrooms for Mahathir
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 30/08/2018
» Perplexed, wounded, indignant or still optimistic. The Chinese developer Country Garden Holdings Co. can put any spin it wants on its Forest City project, a US$100 billion Malaysian township whose fate suddenly has been thrown into doubt after Mahathir Mohamad's pointed refusal to let foreigners buy apartments or live in them long term.
Harley, Trump and Thailand's big trade gamble
News, Andy Mukherjee, Published on 18/07/2018
» Democracies look to voters for validation of their economic policies. For Thailand's military junta, the affirmation is coming from Beijing, bankers and the likes of Harley-Davidson Inc.