TK Arun
Bet on Chinese economic decline at your own peril
Is the Chinese growth story over? Former banker Uday Kotak has issued a warning of Chinese implosion on X (formerly Twitter), rating agency Fitch has put a negative outlook on Chinese prospects, and China’s growth rate for 2024 is forecast to come in at 4...
6 months ago
Organic Farming vs Food Security: India should focus on effective plant protection and sustainability
Cassandra in ancient Greece and Malthus in England at the turn of the 19th century both predicted doom. Cassandra foresaw unpleasant things, such as the fall of Troy and the death of King Agamemnon, of which the people did not want to hear. But her dire p...
1 month ago
Swachh Bharat Mission is not just about sanitation, but also a pathway to empowerment
India was declared Open Defecation Free on October 2, 2019, on the 150th birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, as had been envisaged at the time of the scheme’s launch in 2014. But excrement continued to happen, that is, in the open. So, the Sw...
2 weeks ago
States shouldn’t shy away from taxing agriculture
The gross fiscal deficit for the average state government is slated to rise to 3 percent of the State Domestic Product. The political economy is working to raise, rather than compress the deficit, parties competing to provide ever larger and ever more han...
11 hours ago