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Internationalisation of the Rupee with Selective Liberalisation of the Capital Accounts

Introduction Conventional monetary economics holds a firm sequencing logic, i.e, a currency can only achieve international status after its home economy liberalises the

Economics And Policy

2 months ago

The Invisible Ledger: How Gender Became An Economic Variable

“The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.” – Virginia Woolf, A

Economics And Policy

2 months ago

Fires in the Fashion Industry

Fast Fashion At least 80 billion garments are produced globally every year. That is ten times the population of the world. The culprit?

Economics And Policy

2 months ago

The Wealth Tax Question: A Good Idea That Keeps Going Wrong

Every few years, a version of the same idea resurfaces in political debate: if governments simply taxed the wealth of the very rich,

Economics And Policy

2 months ago

The Cost of the Legal Drinking Age

Each year, state governments in the country collect lakhs of crores in excise revenue from alcohol. In FY 2023-24, Uttar Pradesh collected 36,600

Ideas

2 months ago

What Bun Maska Teaches Us About Immigration: A Parsi Rendezvous with Culture!

The unassuming berry pulao that one relishes at an old, tucked-away Irani cafe in the ragged bylanes of South Bombay seems to have

Business And Finance

2 months ago

Dealroom Unlocked: How the recent RBI regulations for M&A affect the Indian Financing System

Since the inception of the Indian banking system, banks have been barred from financing mergers and acquisitions deals, with the primary prudential motive

Global

2 months ago

Carbon, Cartels, and Courtship: The Making of a Global Diamond Obsession

Diamonds are common. They were not rare when created as gemstones for people over 5,000 years ago, and they still are not rare

Economics And Policy

2 months ago

Same Shock, Different Choices: Why Germany Pulled Ahead of France

Abstract This article studies the political, structural and economic behaviour of two of the largest economies under the European Union, and highlights how

Economics And Policy

2 months ago

The Dark Sides of the State Lottery

In today’s financial world, there exist very few systems that seem as harmless and yet operate as subtly and powerfully as the State

Economics And Policy

3 months ago

Echoes of Protectionism: Revisiting Interwar Isolationism in Today’s Trade Wars

The United States’ recent tariff policies have unleashed a volley of opinions across the international community at large. This article aims to establish

Economics And Policy

4 months ago

Luck as a Vice: The Economics of Lotteries and Gambling Applications

Introduction The chance of winning is 1 in a million, yet the agents selling lottery tickets are crowded every evening. The Indian lottery

Economics And Policy

4 months ago

India’s Productivity Conundrum: The Economic Costs of Lucrative Government Jobs

Introduction Preparation is an omnipresent part of the human experience. Some prepare for marriage, some for retirement, and some for the farming season.

Business And Finance

4 months ago

Why has fintech become so efficient?

One usually points to artificial intelligence, blockchain, or cloud computing, which, although are unquestionably revolutionary, only provide a partial picture. Hence, they are

Politics

4 months ago

Between Chalkboards and Bazaar: Rethinking Economic Models

Our textbooks hand us clean diagrams: perfectly elastic demand and supply, firms acting as “price takers”. Our classrooms are organised, more and so

Economics And Policy

1 year ago

India’s Road Safety Deficit: Counting the Cost of Poor Licensing

Introduction India currently has one of the highest rates of road accidents in the world, with around 1.8 lakh casualties in the year

Politics

1 year ago

Lurking Menace of World War III? – A Dent in the Armour of Collective Security that the World so Fashionably Flaunts!

This article aims to investigate the following questions: Are contemporary global strains and geopolitical quandaries pushing the world towards a third military conflict –

Economics And Policy

1 year ago

Pol’ and Pol’ – Study on Geopolitics and Policies

“Few modern ideologies are as whimsically all-encompassing, as romantically obscure, as intellectually sloppy, and as likely to start a third world war as

Politics

1 year ago

Impact of Social Media on Political Polarisation

The growing penetration of the internet in India, through cheap data plans and affordable smartphones, has added wings to social media interaction for