BUSINESS
A capitalist fix for China's economic problems
Tackling the current slowdown calls for action on multiple fronts. Two-thirds of Chinese citizens already live in towns. Supply-driven expansion of towns and dwellings will no longer work as it used to. China needs reliable financial products, not an endless supply of additional housing, to serve as saving vehicles
BUSINESS
To restrict PC imports is to restrict India's economic future
The manufacturing value-add in computers would be a tiny fraction of the value added in services compromised by restricted IT imports. For a few million dollars’ worth of forced manufacture, should India make life difficult for a trillion-dollar technology and technology enabled services industry?
BUSINESS
Gaming companies should challenge the GST Council's decision
The failure to distinguish between games of chance and games of skill go against several Supreme Court judgments on the subject. This legal clarity is needed to persuade state governments who see the moral turpitude of gambling in all online games
BUSINESS
An absurd decision, GST Council
The Council’s obtuse declaration runs foul of several Supreme Court rulings that demarcate games of skill from pure games of chance. If the Council’s decision is challenged in the courts, it would be struck down
BUSINESS
Policy inaction by the RBI is hiking real rates, growth calls for lower rates
BUSINESS
How to burnish AT1 bonds that have lost their sheen
BUSINESS
Karnataka High Court provides clarity on taxing online games
TRENDS
WFI sexual harassment case | More at stake than the nation's image, PT Usha
BUSINESS
AT1 bonds need a name change. Call them FinCat bonds, catastrophe bonds for the financial sector
BUSINESS
Time to bury the neoliberal bogeyman
BUSINESS
Immigration the key to lower inflation in labour-scarce rich world
BUSINESS
Pharma exports as weapons of mass destruction
BUSINESS
Budget 2023: On to commanding heights and every hillock in sight
ECONOMY
Budget 2023: Build new cities, it is what our future demands of the present
BUSINESS
Budget 2023: The case for lowering tax rates
BUSINESS
Is negotiated peace round the corner in Ukraine?
BUSINESS
Time for a BRICS reinsurance company
BUSINESS
FTX Debacle | Cryptocurrencies will survive, but only robust ones, and subject to regulation
BUSINESS
A message RBI can take from Bank of England
BUSINESS
The language of intermediation matters
BUSINESS
What Rishi Sunak’s rise can tell Congress in India
BUSINESS
Women unravel authoritarian power in Iran and the US
BUSINESS
A World Bank warning that calls for action
BUSINESS
The world six months into the war in Ukraine
