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Core sector grows 1 percent in the past three years
The index of eight core industries was up 7.5 percent in October 2021, but all it has done is dug itself out of the hole it had fallen into
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Q2 GDP shows economy back to pre-COVID levels, but private consumption lags
With Q2 GDP growth higher than RBI’s projection, it’s time to start normalising monetary policy
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Omicron is a timely reminder of the risks lurking beneath markets
What the news of a potentially dangerous mutation did was puncture the assumption that we have defeated COVD-19
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India Inc’s balance sheet is in far better shape than before the pandemic
Indicators such as return on capital employed, leverage, interest cover and liquidity for non-financial firms are on average much better than they have been for years
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Just how rich are farmers in Punjab?
The withdrawal of the farm laws must be seen as a tactical retreat and new methods must be found for reintroducing the reforms
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McKinsey warns of the asset price bubble economy
A McKinsey study finds that while economic growth has been sluggish over the past two decades in advanced economies, net worth, which long tracked GDP growth, has soared in relation to it
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Bank credit no longer the main source of funds for India’s commercial sector
This year, the buoyant conditions in the equity market must have led to big amounts being raised through IPOs, while there has also been substantial foreign investment
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Why President Biden should keep up the pressure on the Chinese leadership
China is now the richest country in the world and feels it can challenge the US for global leadership
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Emerging market equities seen to give the best returns in 2022
The Bank of America survey of global fund managers for November shows that 65 percent of fund managers believe that boom conditions will prevail in the global economy over the next 12 months, with above-trend growth and above-trend inflation
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Is it time to worry about inflation in India? The Phillips curve has the answers
A research paper by RBI Deputy Governor Michael Patra tells us how strong the Phillips curve is in India and its implications for inflation
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Is the Indian economy decoupling from the rest of the world?
The RBI’s state of the economy report says that while Indian growth is accelerating, global growth is slowing
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Who will pay the costs of mitigating climate change?
The richest 10 percent of the global population emits nearly 48 percent of global emissions in 2019, the top 1 percent emits 17 percent of the total, whereas the poorest half of the global population emits 12 percent of global emissions
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India Composite PMI shows recovery gaining speed, but China sluggish on supply concerns
India Services PMI vaults to ten and a half year high, on re-opening of the sector coupled with festive demand
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10 shows investors must watch in Samvat 2078
As a new Samvat beckons with Diwali, we present these 10 dominant themes currently in play
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India is on the cusp of an upswing in the business cycle
The IMF’s projection of 6 percent medium-term growth may be too pessimistic
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The Green Pivot: US intelligence predicts dire consequences for India from climate change
Climate change will lead to increased geopolitical tensions as countries scramble to control resources and dominate new technologies required for clean energy, says a US intelligence report
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Will crypto-currencies be Kryptonite for central banks?
An IMF report says the risks from the rapid adoption of crypto assets are fast rising and, rather than ban them, ways and means must be found to regulate them
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Why did Moody’s improve its credit rating outlook from negative to stable?
The repair of bank balance sheets has removed a key overhang from the economy and has lowered the risks of negative feedback from the financial to the real economy
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Jobs in India rose in 2018-19 for the first time in seven years
The KLEMS database shows the biggest job gains were in construction and trade, but employment in the manufacturing sector continued to shrink
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Jobs for the classes, not for the masses
Thirteen takeaways from the government’s new quarterly employment survey
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China’s bang-bang control system
China’s volatile style of policymaking is deeply ingrained in its authoritarian system, where power is centralized in the top leadership who suffer from a chronic information deficit. This leads to a policy control mechanism that fluctuates between very lax and very harsh enforcement.
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China’s rocky road to the Evergrande crisis
An NBER research paper has compared the Chinese housing bubble to the Japanese one of the late eighties
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RBI’s state of the economy report: Turning point reached, prepare for escape velocity
Report cites comparatively tepid growth, contained inflation and low proportion of fully vaccinated population as factors calling for accommodative monetary policy
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If the recovery is strong, why not cut back stimulus?
If the macroeconomic situation today is far better than after the global financial crisis, as government economists point out, recall that the repo rate at the time was 4.75 per cent, compared to today’s 4 per cent
