Viewpoint: India's digital future
MEDC | 05 JUN,2023
The government of India has made an impressive thrust in the digital sphere. It is the most visible in the financial services sector. Unified Payment Interface (UPI) transacti... Read more
MEDC | 05 JUN,2023
Recognizing the importance of carbon credits in meeting our climate commitments, the government of India is taking steps to establish a carbon credits market. Initially, carbo... Read more
MEDC | 05 JUN,2023
India’s import of discounted crude oil from Russia is now almost half (46%) of the country’s total crude purchases. Discounts on Russian oil average around $10 a b... Read more
Enhancing grain storage capacity
MEDC | 05 JUN,2023
The approval of the Union Cabinet of a trillion rupee programme to create the world’s largest grain storage capacity in India’s cooperative sector is welcome. It w... Read more
Viewpoint: FDI and Economic Growth
MEDC | 29 MAY,2023
The RBI Governor noted that the growth rate for 2022-23 could be even higher than the official projection of 7%. But the real issue worth debating is the medium-term growth ou... Read more
MEDC | 29 MAY,2023
The issue of litigation is a key factor affecting the level of investment flowing into any open economy. Based on this criteria, Indian policymakers still have some distance t... Read more
MEDC | 29 MAY,2023
India’s next green revolution is all about renewable energies. Energy security is necessary to sustain our economic growth. For some time more at least, fossil fuels wil... Read more
Maharashtra's port-led development
MEDC | 29 MAY,2023
The second phase of the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Mahamarg was inaugurated this week. With this, a total length of 600 km out of 701 km of the expressway is now available for tr... Read more
Viewpoint: India's Softening Inflation
MEDC | 22 MAY,2023
India’s wholesale price index (WPI) based inflation has not been too high on the policy radar of RBI for some time now. In April this year, the WPI fell by 0.92% from a ... Read more
Appropriate pesticide strategies
MEDC | 22 MAY,2023
For several reasons, the productivity of Indian agriculture has never been particularly high. The formulation of an appropriate pesticide strategy plays a vital role here. The... Read more
Risk-management for Indian banks
MEDC | 22 MAY,2023
Financial markets and banks in India have evolved considerably since 2008. In this period, India’s consistently high economic growth obviously stole the show, but import... Read more
PLI and economic competitiveness
MEDC | 22 MAY,2023
Our new production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for IT hardware is likely to see the world’s top players shifting base from China and setting up units to assemble compu... Read more
Viewpoint: Digital Solutions and Economic Development
MEDC | 15 MAY,2023
In her recent address to the G7 nations in Japan, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman emphasized the need for developing nations to go beyond the standard macroeconomic parame... Read more
MEDC | 15 MAY,2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is likely to be used in a big way in financial markets worldwide, including in India. Researchers are already using ChatGPT to decipher the statem... Read more
MEDC | 15 MAY,2023
India now has more startups than any other nation except the US and China. Since the beginning of 2021, the number of unicorns created in India has also risen from 40 to... Read more