The beginning of 2026 has brought encouraging signals for India, especially on the economic front. The government’s Economic Review released at the end of 2025 revealed that with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of $4.18 trillion, India has overtaken Japan ($4.17 trillion) to become the world’s fo...
Early last month January in the new year, three major global institutions released reports on growth prospects for 2026. On January 8, the United Nations (UN) published World Economic Situation and Prospects 2026 (WESP). A week later, on January 16, the world’s most influential private-sector-led ...
The Union Budget 2026 has been formulated and presented against an unusually challenging economic backdrop, marked by strong headwinds on both global and domestic fronts. Internationally, the imposition of steep 50 per cent tariffs by the United States under the Trump administration, the withdrawal ...
On November 21, the Government of India announced the implementation of four Labour Codes with the stated objective of simplifying and streamlining the country’s labour laws. In its press release, the government claimed that these newly enacted Codes would herald a transformational change by ensur...
After a year marked by global trade tensions, strategic realignments, and domestic policy recalibrations, the coming year offers both challenges and opportunities for India’s economic and strategic trajectory.As the global economy enters another year of uncertainty, India stands out as an exceptio...
In 2025, a noticeable divergence between the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) has prompted a closer examination of how these two measures of inflation present different narratives of the economy. While CPI tracks inflation experienced by consumers at the retail level, W...
Global debt has surged to record levels that were unimaginable a decade ago. Governments, households, and corporations now collectively owe more than ever before in modern history. What makes this situation perilous is not just the massive amount of debt, but also the simultaneous rapid increase in ...
India’s economic trajectory in 2025 presents a compelling case of resilience amid heightened global uncertainty. The year began with strong diplomatic momentum, symbolised by the Indian Prime Minister’s early-year visit to Washington at the invitation of the newly elected US President. Expectati...
Over the past decade, the Indian rupee has borne witness to a sustained depreciation—from around ₹60 per US dollar in 2014 to nearly ₹95 per dollar by December 2025. This trajectory is not a mere technical adjustment in exchange rates; it reflects the cumulative outcome of prolonged structural...
The global economy is currently navigating a period of heightened turbulence, marked by intensifying geopolitical tensions and pervasive trade uncertainty, and India is no exception. Against this challenging international backdrop, RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra, on December 5, presented a notably opt...
