Tag: Economy
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Singh is King: Prime Minister who meant Business
We will have to wait a decade or two for some scholars to dig out archives, conduct a wide range of interviews and write serious and critical biographies of Dr Manmohan Singh. Till then, what we have of him are the reminiscences of people who knew him, a book and a movie with clickbait title,…
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Episode 6: A History of Economic Policy in India
In this episode, I am in conversation with Rahul De, to discuss the key ideas in his book ‘A History of Economic Policy in India: Crisis, Coalitions and Contingency’. Rahul takes us through the meaning of economic history and the need for studying it. He situates industrial development in colonial India and its integration with…
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P V Narasimha Rao and India’s Foreign Policy
While his economic contributions are well recognised, P V Narasimha Rao’s role in reorienting India’s foreign policy is undermined. During his tenure, P V Narasimha Rao was committed to responding to global challenges by reorienting the foreign policy of India based on national interest and bringing several shifts in India’s foreign policy amid unfavourable domestic…
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Open Letter to the United Nations Secretary-General and President of the World Bank-Setting Serious Goals to Combat Inequality
Dear Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres and President of the World Bank Ajay Banga, RE: Setting serious goals to combat inequality As a group of economists and leaders in the fight against extreme inequalities from around the world, we write to request your leadership towards ensuring that the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals…
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Internal migrants in peril
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Virus dragged many sections of the society into troubled waters. This is also because of ineffective action from the government side to protect those people. One such a section is the internal migrant workers, who are mostly seasonal and daily wage workers, who moved from rural areas to urban spaces for work, within a district…
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Countering emotivism in economics
Economies should change their priorities. It is no more the increasing the growth rates, but seeing that the growth is inclusive and improve the social standards of people. Health and education should be the utmost priority. For a country like India, the government should focus on improving the capabilities of its working population and make…
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Gandhi And Kumarappa: A Gandhian Paradigm for Development
In his essay Three Disciples, B R Nanda wrote, “It would have been difficult to think of a more unlikely candidate for the discipleship of Gandhi in 1929 than J.C. Kumarappa” (Nanda, 2002). Looking at the phase of his life before meeting Gandhi shows that this proposition is beyond question. Joseph Chellandurai Kumarappa’s age was 37…
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