BUSINESS
GDP in April-June 2021 still well below that of April-June 2019
Private consumption is still 88.1 per cent of what it was two years ago
BUSINESS
What to look for in the Q1 GDP numbers
RBI predicts growth in April-June 2021 will be 21.4 per cent after a contraction of 24.4 per cent in April-June 2020. That means GDP will still be lower than it was two years ago
BUSINESS
The Modi government’s courage in biting the bullet on asset monetisation deserves kudos
Those opposing asset recycling should tell us whether they prefer the alternatives: higher taxes or a higher fiscal deficit
BUSINESS
When the facts change, do central bankers change their minds?
We are all agog to know whether Jayanth Varma’s question will be answered at Jackson Hole
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Jayanth Varma’s bombshell
The MPC member, the lone dissenter at the previous policy meet in August, questions effectiveness of the accommodative stance to shore up growth
BUSINESS
RBI State of the Economy Report: The Maya of Inflation and the Leela of Growth
Inflation is transitory, as are all things, while growth will depend on our karma
BUSINESS
Did the US invasion help the Afghan economy?
Economic growth was strong initially, but as aid dwindled and foreign troops left, the economy stalled. With the US gone, will it be advantage China?
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | The market celebrates Independence
Equity market takes adverse news flows in its stride, expects ‘mother of all recoveries’ ahead
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | The message from the RBI surveys
Economy is healing from the brutal second wave, but it’s a long way to go
INDIA
The mystery of the falling unemployment rate in the midst of a pandemic
What exactly is the point of counting a person as employed if he has worked for just an hour in the preceding week?
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | The East is Red Again
The market carnage spread from China’s e-commerce and fintech bigwigs such as Alibaba and Tencent to edtech companies and then to the property sector
BUSINESS
Hijacked by capital: Why China is cracking down on its Internet companies
The principal contradiction is the one between capitalism and the market on the one hand and Chinese state control on the other
BUSINESS
July Flash PMIs: Supply disruption is behind both inflation and growth scare
Expansion continues to be robust for the US, Eurozone and the UK, but momentum is slowing
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Where are you on India’s wealth ladder?
The top 5 percent of Indians own more wealth than the other 95 percent put together, according to Credit Suisse
SCIENCE
Book Review | Those magnificent men who built science in newly independent India
Why did these extraordinary minds develop science in a newly created India? The book offers a perspective
BUSINESS
RBI study: The pandemic has seen big firms gaining market share
It’s part of a long-term trend in which the biggest firms have been steadily increasing their share of the pie
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Sign of the times
Huge oversubscription of Zomato IPO shows platform companies are the future, posing a threat to traditional businesses
BUSINESS
Confidence in global reflation trade dented, says RBI report
The economy is struggling to regain the momentum of recovery that had started in the second half of 2020-21, but was interrupted by the second wave
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | Fire and ice
Is there a middle ground between higher inflation and deflation? Yes, there is one
INDIA
The conflict over development that claimed the life of Stan Swamy
Economic development is an intensely contested project, throwing up winners and losers. It has always been so, no matter what the political system
BUSINESS
McKinsey study shows rich getting richer, big getting bigger, in last 25 years
Between 1995 and 2019 in the US, the richest 10 per cent of US households increased their share of equity, pooled funds and retirement savings by seven percentage points to two-thirds of the total, largely at the expense of the next 40 per cent of households
BUSINESS
Thirty years of liberalisation: Reforms lifted GDP growth but didn’t create enough jobs
Overall growth in jobs has been coming down in every decade since liberalisation. The KLEMS database shows that total employment in 2017-18 was lower than in 2011-12
BUSINESS
How does the structural change of the last 30 years compare with that of the 30 years preceding liberalisation?
In several significant development markers such as the change in the share of agriculture and industry in GDP, the period since liberalisation has done worse than the thirty year period prior to the opening up of the economy.
BUSINESS
Moneycontrol Pro Weekender | God’s Own Country
How religiously tolerant are Indians? Does it affect their political leanings? How is the economy placed? What explains Indians’ love for a strong leader? Here are some interesting findings
