Shankkar Aiyar
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Public Assets, Private Capital: India's Next Reform Step
That gap between what India's sovereign assets are worth and what they currently earn is central to India's location in the low-middle income bracket.
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Opinion | PM Modi's Austerity Appeal And The Bitter Economics Of 'Sacrifice'
In 2010, Athens was turned into a lab for austerity. The tidy logic was that Greece lived beyond its means and needed discipline for recovery. What followed was a decade of devastation - GDP contracted, hospitals ran out of medicines
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Opinion | Lights, Camera, Sarkar
The neon-lit history of Tamil Nadu politics isn't written in ink; it is etched in celluloid and projected at 24 frames per second. The silver screen has never been just entertainment. It has been the primary incubator for political power for over 50 years. The celluloid screen is where a man's mythology is manufactured before it is tested at the ba...
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Growth Inflation Trade-Off: RBI's Fuzzy Dichotomy
The persistence of the RBI with a higher rate regime is a stance in search of a rationale.
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Food-Price Politics, Inflation Economics And Central Banks
The struggle to contain prices is a common facet in advanced and emerging economies.
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Food-Price Politics, Inflation Economics And Central Banks
The struggle to contain prices is a common facet in advanced and emerging economies.
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Thought Capital: Open Up The GST Data For Insights On The Economy
There is no cogent explanation yet why the granular data of GST collections is out of public reach.
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State Elections: Goats For Votes And India’s Sops Series
Cash transfer is the theme song of the 2021 sops opera, writes Shankkar Aiyar.
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BRICS—The Noun In Search Of A Verb
The fact that BRICS continues to occupy global mind space even as it flails in the fog of geopolitics merits attention.
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BRICS—The Noun In Search Of A Verb
The fact that BRICS continues to occupy global mind space even as it flails in the fog of geopolitics merits attention.
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How The BJP Failed Modi… And India’s Farmers
It would seem as if the party itself had not bought into the vision of its leader, writes Shankkar Aiyar.
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India’s K-Shaped Political Economy
The wide variance in performance across the economy comes embedded with economic & political consequences, writes Shankkar Aiyar.
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The Politics Of Economics: Signals From The Election Campaign
The smoke signals emitted by pre-poll promises present a glimpse of discontent and distress in what is verily a K-shaped economy.
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Assembly Elections 2023: Beyond The Ballot — States Must Unlock Demographic Dividend
Success demands states reform labour laws, enable land acquisition and unclog regulatory cholesterol.
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The Rise Of Xi And The Fall Of China
History often rhymes. Xi Jinping, haunted by the collapse of the Soviet Union, may want to revisit history.
