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Trump's return presents an opportunity for India
Oped, Published on 10/12/2024
» It might be tempting to assume that Donald Trump's return to the White House augurs stability in US-India relations. After all, there is strong bipartisan support in Washington for deeper ties, particularly as a counterbalance to China's growing economic and geopolitical influence.
China's globalisation paradox
Oped, Published on 30/08/2024
» China's trading partners are once again fretting about the country's supposedly unfair economic practices. This time, the focus is on China's alleged attempt to export its excess capacity, especially in emerging sectors such as electric vehicles (EVs), and to undermine domestic industries in the United States and Europe.
'New Welfarism' becoming India's soothing balm
Oped, Published on 06/05/2023
» During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, many Indian economists and commentators believed the economy would skyrocket as soon as life returned to normal. But, despite the country's robust recovery in the two years since the pandemic's peak, the predicted boom has not materialised, nor does it seem imminent.
Global accord not necessary in climate battle
Oped, Published on 12/11/2022
» This week's United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt highlights the growing consensus that multilateral cooperation is necessary to avert environmental catastrophe. But with geopolitical tensions spiking and the US-China rivalry heating up, such efforts seem doomed to fail, much like previous efforts to promote global coordination on vaccines, trade, technological innovation, and macroeconomic policy.
Let's see Vicha report
Oped, Postbag, Published on 21/05/2022
» Re: "Nate probe a let-down", (May 19).
The West has got its Russia sanctions all wrong
Oped, Published on 14/05/2022
» The West responded to Russia's invasion of Ukraine with sanctions of unprecedented severity and scope. By the standard of proportionality, the reaction of the United States, the European Union, and their allies seem appropriate. Serious international aggression demands a serious response. But by the standards of consistency, efficiency, and fairness, it is far from clear that the West has chosen the correct strategy. Governments may need to rethink the design of the sanctions regime.
India's Covid deaths 10 times higher than reported - study
AFP, Published on 20/07/2021
» NEW DELHI: India's coronavirus death toll is up to 10 times higher than the nearly 415,000 fatalities reported by authorities, likely making it the country's worst humanitarian disaster since independence, a US research group said Tuesday.
The paradoxes of the Bangladesh miracle
Asia focus, Published on 28/06/2021
» Ravaged periodically by natural calamities, long dependent on foreign aid and remittances, and a perennial source of refugees and emigrants, Bangladesh was once "a basket case of misery", as Zia Haider Rahman put it in his great debut novel, In the Light of What We Know.
The U.S.'s Next Trade War? As China Clash Cools, Conflict With India Looms
Business, Published on 21/02/2020
» You may have missed it amid headlines of the U.S. trade war with China, but a low-intensity trade conflict with Asia's other emerging giant is also smoldering. It began a year ago when the U.S. stripped India of special low-tariff status over claims it discriminated against American companies. India responded by implementing tariffs it had previously threatened over U.S. steel duties.
The next big development challenge
Asia focus, Published on 03/02/2020
» We have suddenly arrived at a tricky stage in global economic development. Emerging markets are losing their dynamism, after a remarkable three-decade run during which they caught up rapidly with advanced economies.