The share of services has been 64 per cent of the aggregate contributions to India’s GDP during 2023-24. In contrast, the respective contributions of industry and agriculture were only 22 and 14 per cent.

The sharp rise and tumble of the Adani Group have lessons to offer India. A close viewing of events is essential to learn them.

The current ideas floating around can take some insight from the bilateral clearing arrangements set up in the 1950s during the Cold War years.

The budgetary exercise cannot be meaningful unless it addresses the primary concerns in an economy.

Many countries are experiencing the paradox of continuing financial boom amidst a period of stagnation for the real economy.

Protests in England have targeted the symbolic presence of the colonial era in the statues of statesmen and wealthy traders, prompting the need for a re-examination of colonial history.

Large-scale reverse migration has opened up a Pandora's box of how we view the role of labour in India's growth trajectory.

Indications are thus ample to suggest that so far Chinese investments in India have been a help to employment.

The ailing Indian economy has concerns that go beyond flagging GDP growth and the nervous financial sector.

The Budget does not provide a convincing picture of an assured growth path with welfare leading to development in the near future.

The disparate performance of the three major sectors of the Indian economy has left us with an under-utilised workforce, facing a life ridden with poverty.

The conflict represents the need for an honest attempt to identify lapses in financial governance and remedies that do not encroach on each other’s responsibilities as well as rights.

The official position has denied that the economy is facing any impending threat, especially with what are seen as the four green shoots parameters.

The unsustainable pattern of corporate finance has been riddled further by unprecedented recurrences of fraudulent activities in the financial sector.