Economic Policy

The global economy in flux – Tariffs and turbulence  

Global growth is weakening as rising trade barriers and an increasingly uncertain global policy environment continue to weigh on economies worldwide

Rebuilding women’s jobs in the Himalayan hinterland

Promoting sustainable livelihoods for women in Uttarakhand requires addressing their economic marginalisation and focusing on hill-centric employment strategies

BRICS+ meets in Rio amid global shifts and internal fractures

As leaders of the group gather for a summit, the absence of China’s Xi and Russia’s Putin shifts the spotlight to India’s Modi and Brazil’s Lula

Donald Trump’s Middle East Tour: A Strategic Reset on a Highly Volatile Chessboard

Trump’s regional tour marks a strategic shift from interventionism to diplomacy and trade, signaling a complex geopolitical inflection point

The great rivalry: America, China and the battle for global supremacy

A multidimensional geopolitical struggle. The US-China clash is the 21st century’s geopolitical fulcrum, a systemic rivalry across economies, militaries, technologies, and ideologies, with global supremacy at stake

Trump’s tariff war: US bull may get gored in China shop

China is sending critical geoeconomic signals that it will resist US bullying and economic hegemonism

Tariffs and inflation for the US, disruption for Indian supply chains

India must work at making India great as opposed to bending over backwards to help Trump in Making America Great Again

How tariff cuts on US imports impact India’s economic growth

Lowering trade barriers can help India’s goals of self-reliance and global trade integration

Why India’s growth momentum is losing steam

The slowdown should be a wake-up call for the government to take remedial action especially to address weakness on the demand side