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Anshuman Tiwari

Anshuman Tiwari

Editor, India Today Hindi

anshuman.tiwari@intoday.com

Editor, economic analyst, columnist, author

By Anshuman Tiwari

Biting India's economy hardest: Policy uncertainty is adding huge volatility to already troubled sectors

India's black swan moment is here. Its total unpredictability is sending jitters across already shaky markets.

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The Name is Bond: Why be afraid of a sovereign debt?

Foreign scrutiny will trigger much-needed prudence in India’s fiscal management. It will also generate a new wave of economic reforms and lift our economy as happened in the '90s.

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Indian Economy: It's serious. Multiple structural downturns make this slowdown unlike others

Unlike earlier slowdowns, this one has all the ingredients of a perfect storm. How long will it take for official interventions to ease the difficulties the Indian economy has to face?

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Why India has to bite the Universal Basic Income bullet

A direct cash transfer to the poor is a powerful idea, and whichever political party comes to power at the Centre will feel compelled to move towards it in order to repair India's broken fiscal engine.

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Who took your jobs away? The data doesn't lie

Why is the world's fastest-growing economy also suffering the fastest growth in joblessness? And how can the next government break through this vicious impasse?

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Lok Sabha Elections: Why Narendra Modi in 2019 needs a bigger wave than 2014

Is anti-incumbency the basic nature of Indian electoral mandates? Do people vote on performance or promises?

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Post-Pulwama: India wants Pakistan to lose its IMF bailout. But that may result in Islamabad inching closer to Beijing

Losing the IMF bailout battle might just be the opportunity a beleaguered Pakistan needs to get closer to Chinese and Saudi support.

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Interim Budget 2019: It’s deflation that's hurting you! And it could hurt BJP too

The biggest chink in Narendra Modi-Amit Shah’s electoral armour is the economy which is the grip of strong deflation and plummeting demand. It is here that the Opposition has its sharpest advantage.

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Understanding the Davos dilemma

Has the WEF Summit turned into nothing more than an annual jamboree of global economic contradictions?

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What shines and who has been exposed in the politics over GDP numbers

GDP numbers tell a fantastic story of India's economic resilience in which the country’s politics has turned farcical.

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Laxminama: How religion and trade shaped each other, and human civilisation

[Book extract] Business in India blossomed always in tune with liberal religious thought, where profit and credit had its sanction in all religious texts.

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Rising fuel prices: Why India is paying the price for its irrational energy tax policy

It's more than worrying that the government and oil companies are seemingly clueless about the next course of action on petroleum prices.

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Why banks' bad loan mess has become murkier now

How Modi government is divided on the very genesis of NPAs.

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Why Atal Bihari Vajpayee was an economic liberaliser in the true sense

Vajpayee was the first PM of India who dared to rein in government spending.

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Why Facebook, WhatsApp, Google have no choice but to purge fake news

Social media's battle against fake news and bigotry is bad news for politics.

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Why exports are at odds with PM Modi's global outreach

Going by the high-octane global missions of Narendra Modi, India's exports recession remains an enigma.

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How elections will decide the fate of GST

As polls approach, most of the states have started flouting Goods and Services Tax norms.

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Why India’s rural distress has an acute urban problem

Even high support price for crops is unlikely to solve the issue.

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What double-digit growth? Lowly 7% GDP is India's new normal

The NDA government could have easily pushed India's growth to more than 8 per cent.

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Four years of Modi govt: A look back at how the PM and his policies fared

The big hits and misses.

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How rising petrol and diesel prices are a test for Modi's cooperative federalism

States, not Centre, will have to take deeper cuts on VAT to avoid uncontrolled inflation.

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Skyrocketing petrol and diesel prices: What about the taxes you levied on us, Mr Jaitley?

The fiscal acumen of Modi government was essentially based on the proceeds of heavy taxation on cheap crude. Now we are back to square one.

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How the great Indian telecom revolution turned into a tragedy of losses and job cuts

The crisis is a result of recent policy miscarriages and disconnected government interventions.

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How GST failed India and ended up helping tax evaders

The number of returns filed each month is limited to 70 lakh, though the number of taxpayers registered with the GSTN is over one crore.

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How Modi government has trampled over Parliament

The legislature's fiscal power is the cornerstone of constitutional democracy.

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What India needs to do to save its banking system

It's time the RBI and the government do to banks what SEBI did to the stock market after the scam in 2001.

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The thousands of crore Nirav Modi-Mehul Choksi PNB scam is more recent than you think

The heist appears a well planned quick swindle not a prolonged one.

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How Nirav Modi used 'inter-bank' mode to defraud Punjab National Bank of Rs 11,300 crore

When it comes to stealing from the banks, nothing seems to have changed since the era of Ketan Parekh and Harshad Mehta.

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