Indian economy

GST: The Life and Times of a Bill

Siddharth Singh

The travails of the GST Bill bring out the best and the worst of Indian politics. Will Congress buckle under isolation?

The Economic History of Liberation

TCA Srinivasa Raghavan

Revisiting India’s path-breaking budgets on the 25th anniversary of reforms

25 Years of 1991 Reforms: In Praise of Creative Destruction

Pranjul Bhandari and Rohit Lamba

Twenty-five years after the reforms of 1991, India needs more if the country is to escape the Middle Income Trap

Raghuram Rajan: The Governor and Governance

TCA Srinivasa Raghavan

Raghuram Rajan’s exit and the question of institutional independence

Welcoming Foreign Money, Slowly

Siddharth Singh

India opens up key sectors to investment from overseas but it may take a while to boost economic activity

Economic Reforms: The Growth and Gloom Story

Siddharth Singh

Beyond the magic figure of 7.6 lies the bigger challenge for the Modi Government

Pratap Bhanu Mehta: Argue or Be Damned

Open

President of the Centre for Policy Research, Prata Bhanu Mehta has no qualms speaking his mind about the Modi Government's trampling of civil liberties

Raghuram Rajan: The Big Bank Theorist

Open

When the world is hurtling through economic crises and India stands relatively unhurt, the credit, in no small measure, goes to Raghuram Rajan

PV Narasimha Rao: The Outsider Who Dared

PR Ramesh

PV Narasimha Rao needed somebody who would be adept at tackling the immediate problems, come up with out-of-the-box solutions, and take courageous decisions to pull the country back from the precipice. He plumped for Manmohan Singh