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The author is the Director of Observer Research Foundation and is based in Kolkata.
MONEY
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How the Covid pandemic is souring India’s $5 trillion dream
Rather than having an ambition of $5 trillion economy that seems almost unattainable by 2024, it is now important that the next three years focus on the creation of better provisions of public goods and services like health.
VARIETY
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The RCEP talks and India's anxieties
The biggest concern of India with RCEP at this juncture is not merely the economic reasons, but more geopolitical: the existence of China.
POLITICS
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The dynamics of self-reliant India
Both — Aatmanirbhar Bharat and Make in India — are great ideas, and are misinterpreted in due to vested interests, or due to lack of communication and lack of understanding among the public.
POLITICS
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How India can hit China where it hurts them most
With a negative public sentiment about China prevailing in India, China, with delinquent antics, is virtually pushing itself to lose out on the buoyant and burgeoning Indian market. This will hit them hard.
MONEY
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Why our MSMEs have very few options left to survive
More than one-third of the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) will be pulling down their shutters as a result of the present economic trough, despite the liquidity measures promoted by the FM.
VARIETY
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How a delta ravaged by Cyclone Amphan awaits a revival
As if Covid-19 was not enough, Amphan has damaged infrastructure, rendered many homeless, and imposed a cost on the West Bengal economy whose indelible impacts will be felt in the long-run.
MONEY
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How growth and equity get a boost in Finance Minister's economic stimulus package
FM Nirmala Sitharaman’s first tranche of announcements of the fiscal stimulus for economic recovery closely follows PM Modi's vision of making the economy self-reliant.
VARIETY
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How the pandemic is an opportunity to create a ‘more equal’ world
A new “more equal” world has to replace the old unequal world with a paradigm propagating equality from spatial and temporal dimensions.
MONEY
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Clear picture of negative crude oil price
The situation has created rigmarole in market clearance across commodity derivatives markets of the world.
MONEY
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