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WTO is the Phoenix in the New World Order

02/08/2018

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(This blog post was originally prepared for the External Services Division of All India Radio, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. Broadcast on August 2, 2018, All Units. http://airworldservice.org/ )
 
Do the recent retreat of globalization; US President Donald Trump’s protectionist policies, the US-China trade war ...

India Beats France in GDP: What does it mean?

17/07/2018

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(This post was originally prepared for External Services Division of All India Radio, broadcast on July 14, 2018.)
 
As per the World Bank figures for 2017, India has become the world’s sixth-biggest economy, after US, China, Japan, Germany and UK. India has pushed France to the seventh place. India’s ...

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The US–China Trade War Conundrum

25/06/2018

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(This was originally prepared for External Services Division of All India Radio, broadcast on June 25th 2018.)
 
The adverse trade relations between US and China are increasingly becoming a global irritant, especially when security and trade issues are hard to disentangle in the contemporary global scenario. The trade ...

Sectoral Spending Effectiveness of Gender Budgeting on Gender Equality and Fiscal Space

22/06/2018

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Gender budgeting is the process of applying a gender lens to public financial management, to analyse the gender components in public spending across all sectors - not only social sector budgets - and evaluate their outcomes. Gender neutral fiscal policy can turn gender-blind if there are no systemic corrections. 
 
While ...

Fiscal Consolidation, Budget Deficits and the Macro Economy

05/04/2018

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I read Dr. Lekha S. Chakraborty's book titled "Fiscal Consolidation, Budget Deficits and the Macro Economy" with interest. It is a book of substance.  In less than 200 pages, the author has tried to pack consideration of many contentious issues relating to fiscal policy and its linkages with overall ...