Viewpoint: The Fintech Revolution
MEDC | 27 DEC,2020
Covid has brought about huge changes in how the financial sector operates. Public sector banks are facing increasing competition from their nimbler private sector coun... Read more
MEDC | 27 DEC,2020
The ongoing farmers’ agitation is revolving around a guarantee of minimum support price (MSP), although the new farm laws are not related to MSP, and the governm... Read more
MEDC | 27 DEC,2020
The credit supply shortage to MSMEs has been a cause of policy concern for a long time in India. The formal credit available to this sector is about Rs. 16 trillion as... Read more
MEDC | 27 DEC,2020
The turbulence in world trade caused by Covid since almost a year now has affected India’s external sector. Both imports and exports have suffered an overall dec... Read more
Viewpoint: Strategic policy reforms
MEDC | 20 DEC,2020
India’s huge internal market remains its potentially strongest economic asset. Our huge consumption base is our biggest growth driver. It is heartening to know t... Read more
Revisiting Centre-State relations
MEDC | 20 DEC,2020
For enhancing the efficacy of policymaking, there is a need to revisit Centre-state relationships amidst the country’schanging socioeconomic environment. Over ti... Read more
MEDC | 20 DEC,2020
The world is waiting with bated breath for a reliable vaccine to counter Covid. In India, policymakers will need to leverage the infrastructure deployed for the immuni... Read more
MEDC | 20 DEC,2020
Green shoots in the economy are becoming increasingly visible. India’s industrial output rose in October 2020 for the second consecutive month after six months o... Read more
Viewpoint: Agriculture's structural crisis
MEDC | 13 DEC,2020
A section of farmers have been protesting for many days now in Delhi, demanding withdrawal of India’s recently passed farm bills. This should be seen as a reflec... Read more
Financial stability in an online world
MEDC | 13 DEC,2020
With Covid making work from home a necessity for millions, public dependence on online financialservices has risen sharply. This has led to a steep rise in the number ... Read more
MEDC | 13 DEC,2020
Over the past decade, an increasing number of Indian enterprises have undergone a digital transformation. The cloud has moved from being a relatively backend technolog... Read more
MEDC | 13 DEC,2020
As was widely expected, RBI has decided to leave the interest rates unchanged in its latest monetary policy review. With growth gradually recovering, RBI will need to ... Read more
Viewpoint: The inflation roadblock
MEDC | 06 DEC,2020
Persistently high inflation poses the single biggest hurdle to the long-term growth prospects of the Indian economy. Throughout the year, inflation has been hovering a... Read more
MEDC | 06 DEC,2020
Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) is the need of our times. Investing in ESG is essentially investing in sustainability … it may not fetch im... Read more
MEDC | 06 DEC,2020
An increasing number of Indian corporates believe that the economy continues to be over-regulated, and that the government needs to get more objective about compliance... Read more
