Global think-tanks including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have been advocating that India is in the midst of a demographic transition and is likely to reap huge demographic dividends in the coming years.India is experiencing an increase in working-age population offering ...
After the success of its tourism’s promotional slogan ‘Atithi Devo Bhava’, the Indian tourism ministry has come out with another catchphrase 'your search ends here'.One hopes the new slogan helps in attracting more foreign tourists to India for experiencing nature’s beauty and cultural diver...
“You and I come by road or rail, but economists come by infrastructure,” Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s longest-serving prime minister and the first woman elected to that office had observed while highlighting the role of infrastructure in a nation’s life. For economists rail and roads are not...
“The line between order and disorder lies in logistics” – is how Sun Tzu, the Chinese military strategist and philosopher defined the place of logistics in a nation’s growth drive. Sun Tsu’s basic proposition probably related to military strategy but since the logistic industry involves th...
Prabir Dey’s day starts in the morning and often ends at mid-night. He can’t afford leisure but he values his job as a courier boy for a food delivery start-up. He is one among millions of young Indians who, armed with their smart-phones and motor cycles, deliver nearly anything and everything t...
If the present is not beautiful, the future will be – is how Nirmala Sitharaman has prefaced her maiden Budget. She has talked of doubling farmers’ income by 2022 – something PM Modi often advocated in the past. She spoke of taking electricity to every house in the country. Above all, she pled...
Will the falling automobile sales trigger an economic recession? First the US and now the European Union (EU) are facing the same problem. Automobile sales across the world are declining.Nearly every major automaker in the US reported weak sales for the first quarter of 2019. Rising vehicle prices a...
Modi may have won the 2019 general election bypassing the economic issues at large but now, arresting an economic slowdown and nursing back the country’s financial sector are among the crucial challenges before the nation.Indian economy has slowed down to its lowest in five years in the last fisca...
When Benjamin Franklin, the American polymath and a founding father of the United States of America said that “an investment in knowledge pays the best interest”, he had referred to its uses and not to its mere accumulation. Franklin said it more than two centuries ago and his concept of the use...
When one thinks of Indian agriculture two images invariably come to mind; that of a bare-footed farmer ploughing on a dry field and of FCI warehouses overflowing with food grains. This dichotomy of deprivation amidst abundance portrays the true picture of Indian agriculture. Agricultural production ...
