Eswar Prasad

Uncertainty in global financial markets tends to be good for the dollar because money flows to the US financial markets, especially the US treasury securities markets in search of a safe haven, says Eswar Prasad, Professor Of Economics at Cornell University.

Can cash cleanup lead to bigger reforms, asks Eswar Prasad

Speaking to CNBC-TV18 Eswar Prasad, Professor of Economics at Cornell University, said Narendra Modi hasn‘t solved the problem yet of black money. But he has created a momentum through his demonetisation drive.

'China's stuck between a rock and a hard place on reforms'

The scope of China's debt problem has risen "enormously," since Prasad was the IMF China division chief from 2002-2004, with corporate debt alone at 150 percent of the mainland's gross domestic product (GDP), he told CNBC's "Squawk Box."

'China's target of growing at 6.5% ambitious yet achievable'

Markus Rodlauer, Deputy Director and Chief of Mission of China at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Eswar Prasad, Professor of Economics at Cornell University, explain the concerns around Chinese economy.

Did China sink the yuan, or did it sink by itself?

In a CNBC-TV18's interview with Morgan Stanley Economist Manoj Pradhan and former IMF China Economist Eswar Prasad, CNBC-TV18's Latha Venkatesh discussed why the Chinese devalued their currency.

Can China deliver on IMF's 6.8% GDP growth forecast?

China has massive economic issues, but its stock market is doing a good job of discounting the country's transition, says Adrian Mowat of JPMorgan; while Eswar Prasad, senior fellow at Brooking Institution, says there are downside risks to International Monetary Fund's (IMF) China growth forecast.

Despite turmoil, Eswar Prasad sees China growth at 6.5-7%

In an interview with CNBC-TV18's Sonia Shenoy and Anuj Singhal, Cornell University Senior Professor Eswar Prasad said the world's second largest economy still had enough fiscal and monetary policy space to boost its economy.

What should be real interest rate for India? Experts debate

RBI on January 16 announced the first rate cut after a gap of 20 months. The guessing game now is how many more rate cuts we can expect. Dr Rangarajan, Former RBI Governor, Jahangir Aziz, Chief Economist at JP Morgan and Eswar Prasad, Professor of Economics from Cornell University, discuss on the same.

Too low crude prices also not good for India: Cornell prof

India‘s oil import bill for October fell 19 percent year-on-year, but there was bad news as well by way of lower exports

Reason for oil price fall is not good news: Eswar Prasad

Amid all the celebrations that started due to steep fall in crude, Eswar Prasad sounds a word of caution. Speaking to CNBC-TV18, he said falling crude is good news but why it is falling is not good.