The 2025 Union Budget is more than an economic planтАФitтАЩs a pre-election strategy designed to secure votes, especially in┬аDelhi and Bihar, where elections were announced. With a large portion of DelhiтАЩs voters comprising the...
The Economic Survey 2025 tabled by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, projects a ┬а6.3 – 6.8% growth rate for FY 26, ahead of the Union Budget 2025-26. But, what does it mean to the common...
We are just around the corner for another budget. The Finance Minister has been consulting regular industry leaders, business associations, and occasional trade unions in preparation for the budget. While memes around the falling...
A recent investigation by The Indian Express revealed that over 43% of the total non-performing assets (NPA) till March 2019, or Rs. 4.02 lakh crore, was accounted for by just 100 companies. According to...
As the Bretton Woods Institutions complete 80 years, here are eight charges against them (not in order of the severity of the crimes!). 1. Perpetuator of Climate Crisis: Now championing as a climate saviour...
Truman тАУ Rostow Club and the Birth of Development Discourse┬а In 1949, U.S. President Harry Truman, in his “Point Four” speech, introduced an┬а influential vision of тАЬdevelopmentтАЭ that charted the course of history toward...
In 1994, the New York Times┬аdescribed the World Bank and International Monetary ┬аFund (IMF) as тАЬoverlords of AfricaтАЭ and ostensibly so the bankers have indeed ┬аbecome overlords of the global south since the globalisation...
On their 80th birthday, the colonial legacies of the World Bank (collectively for the IBRD тАУ International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the IDA тАУ International Development Association) and the International Monetary Fund...
While the Adani indictment by the US Department of Justice and the US Securities and Exchange Commission тАЬmay or may not turn out to be the Modi regimeтАЩs Bofors momentтАЭ, it vindicates what many...
Singrauli town in Madhya Pradesh is soon to be vanished as Coal India wants to mine the 600 MT of coal lying underneath. Wonder what will happen to Delhi if precious minerals are found...