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Tag Archives: India
Country Income Shares in PPP
by Jayati Ghosh, Triplecrisis.com The UNDP’s latest Human Development Report 2013 (entitled “The rise of the South”) has one particularly striking chart that it uses to make the point about the recent growing economic significance of some “emerging” nations. In … Continue reading
Posted in China, GDP, India, International Economic data, Personal Income and Consumption
Tagged Brazil, China, consumer confidence, Economy, GDP, global gdp, India, Jayati Ghosh, ppp
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Is South-South Economic Interaction Any Better for Poor Countries?
by Jayati Ghosh, from Triple Crisis Blog It used to be believed that that economic interaction between developing countries (South-South integration) would necessarily be more beneficial than North-South links. The latter were seen as reproducing the global division of labour … Continue reading
India’s Inflation Crisis: What This Means for Monetary Policy
Ajay Shah writes on India’s inflation crisis and how this affects the country’s monetary policy. Continue reading
Posted in Economics, India, money
Tagged Ajay Shah, India, India monetary policy, inflation, money
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Egregious Indian Protectionism Against Trade in Services
by Ajay Shah For many decades, India was one of the most protectionist countries in the world. This did great damage to growth and knowledge in India. Tariffs dropped from ridiculous levels to ridiculous levels in the early 1990s and … Continue reading
Posted in India
Tagged Ajay Shah, globalisation, India, international trade, protectionism, world bank
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Evaluating Responses to India’s Macroeconomic Crisis
by Shubho Roy and Ajay Shah The macroeconomic setting India’s macroeconomic woes consist of high inflation, low GDP growth and a drop in asset prices. The loss of momentum is visible in the seasonally adjusted data:
Posted in India
Tagged Ajay Shah, India, India deflating asset prices, India inflation, India low GDP, Shubho Roy
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Evaluating Responses to India’s Macroeconomic Crisis
by Shubho Roy and Ajay Shah The macroeconomic setting India’s macroeconomic woes consist of high inflation, low GDP growth and a drop in asset prices. The loss of momentum is visible in the seasonally adjusted data:
Posted in India
Tagged Ajay Shah, India, India's response, Indian business, Indian economy, Indian rupee, macroeconomics, Shubho Roy
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South Asian Poor: Is There Any Hope?
by Ejaz Ghani, Lakshmi Iyer and Saurabh Mishra Voxeu While the rate of economic growth in India and other South Asian countries is impressive, it does raise the question of whether this growth is inclusive. This column looks at a … Continue reading
Posted in India, macroeconomics
Tagged Elaz Ghani, improvement, India, Lakshmi Iyer, poverty, Saurabh Mishra, South Asia
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Economic Law of Gravity
by Ajay Shah Editor’s note: From Wikipedia, the Newtonian Law of Gravity says the force between two bodies is proportional to product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the distance between them. The equation is , where G … Continue reading
Out of the Garden of Europe and into the World Economy
by Macrotides Monetary policy is a bit like watering a garden. Its nourishment is intended to foster growth and jobs, and when in full bloom, a rising standard of living for the majority of people in society. A functioning spigot … Continue reading
Posted in China, Economics, Eurozone, International Economic data, macroeconomics
Tagged Brazil, China, Eurozone, Greece, India, inflation, interest rates, Italy, macrotides, Portugal, slowdown, Spain, unemployment
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India: What Will It Look Like in 2025?
by Ejaz Ghani, Voxeu What will India and other South Asian countries look like in 2025? The optimistic view is that India will achieve double digit growth rates but the pessimistic view is that growth will be derailed by several … Continue reading
Posted in India, macroeconomics
Tagged demographic dividend, education, Ejaz Ghani, health, India, training
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September 2011 Global Macro Picture
The tightening of monetary policy over the last year by China, India, and Brazil will cause their domestic economies to slow. Coupled with the slowdown in developed countries, global growth is set to slow for the rest of 2011 and early 2012. The European debt crisis is going to get worse, and it also will have a negative effect on global growth. Continue reading
Posted in China, Eurozone, India, International Economic data, Latin America, macroeconomics
Tagged Brazil, China, Europe, Germany, Greece, India, inflation, interest rates, Italy, macrotides, Portugal, slowdown, Spain
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Financial Choice of the Hapless Households of India
Until deeper reforms on consumer protection take place in Indian financial regulation, urban households will be constantly tugged by unscrupulous sales agents of financial firms pushing products based on high pressure tactics. Continue reading
Posted in India
Tagged Ajay Shah, financial planning, India, KGFS, Kshetriya Gramin Financial Services, Pudhuaaru, Thanjavur
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Economic Freedom in the States of India
There is a positive relation between improvement in economic freedom and increase in investment share. This seems to say that states which improved economic freedom tended to improve their share in investment. We have to, of course, be careful about ascribing causality.
Are Cracks Developing in the BRICs?
The damage arising from mounting agricultural and other strategic commodity prices will be a painful affair for the BRIC’s and perhaps too eventually for the “advanced” economies.
Posted in China, India
Tagged Brazil, BRIC, China, Clive Corcoran, commodities, dollar, food, India, inflation
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Trade liberalisation and lagging regions in South Asia
Infrastructure deficiencies are a leading cause of lagging economic development in some regions of South Asia. Continue reading
Posted in India
Tagged Asha Sundaram, Bangladesh, Devahish Mitra, Devashish Mitra, India, Pravin Krishna
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What Happened to Global Food Prices?
Prosperity has resulted in unusually inelastic demand for food — the consumers of China and India are less poor and less willing to tighten their belts. Continue reading
Posted in China, India, Uncategorized
Tagged China, food, India, inelastic demand, inflation
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Mythbusting: Current account deficit edition
Concern about India’s current account deficit is not recognizing the effects that exist now that the rupee is truly a floating currency. Continue reading
RBI is Holding a Tiger by the Tail
RBI has embarked on a strange strategy which has created negative liquidity compensated by a process resembling Quantitative Easing. Thus is born a tiger and RBI is found holding only the tail. Continue reading
Posted in Banking News, Business News and Analysis, India, Uncategorized
Tagged banking, India, RBI
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Will India GDP grow by more than 10% in this Financial Year?
It would not be surprising if double digit growth is reached this financial year. Sanjeev Kulkarni runs the numbers.
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