A Shift in India’s Brain Drain
Up until 2017, many of India’s top engineers, doctors and science, math and management graduates chose to pursue advanced degrees and jobs in
A CAAT and Mouse Game
Ever thought about how the United States is able to impose or threatens to impose so many sanctions on countries all around the
Planned Obsolescence: How Brands Make You Buy More
Introduction: Planned or dynamic obsolescence is a strategy of ensuring that a given product will be rendered useless within a known timeframe, therefore
Banking Beyond Boundaries: From NBFCs to Metal Cards
The modern banking landscape in India is undergoing a seismic transformation, with various elements converging to redefine financial services and customer experiences. Non-Banking
Nursing Pockets Back to H(W)ealth
Praying might miraculously save the patient, because paying will chew away their minuscule pocket making them indebted forever. Skyrocketing medical expenses that cost
Green Revolution: Boon or Bane
As long as you are wedded to the growth-stricken mainstream economics, you will never say, down with green revolution! Instead, you might actually
The Phygital Economy
10 minutes into standing in a socially distant queue at a restaurant, I realised I only had cash in my pocket, a form
A Dose of Doze
We live in a world where we often hear that hard work beats talent and that someone burning the midnight oil is truly
Inequality Crisis
A common problem of the current global political and economic order is the soaring inequalities in income, wealth and power alongside slow growth.
RCT: A Nobel Approach Towards Poverty Amelioration.
India is a developing country where even today, the problem of poverty exists as a huge socio-economic issue, posing a threat to national
A preamble to India’s growing defense
In these troubled times, the question of safety is paramount, and nothing concerns a nationalistic regime like ours more than national security and
Unravelling Union Budget 2020
With the theme of “Aspirational India, Economic Development, Caring Society” guiding each budgetary allocation, the Union Budget 2020 was announced in the Parliament
Need for Gender-Transformative Focus in India’s Education Policy
The Right to Education (RTE) Act was enacted with much fanfare in 2009, but even ten years later, it is still struggling to
Social Distancing and The Social Distance
Every time we go through an arduous period in our lives, it is instantly deemed to be a ‘crisis’. But when all of
Making Economics Lively
How to get students to love economics has been a pressing concern that has been debated and discussed in the literature of economic
To Tax or Not to Tax, that is the Question!
Every year, just before the release of the annual budget, the discourse on abolishing personal tax gains its peak many economists argue that
The Social Economy
In the real world, there are many different types of entrepreneurs with different motivations driving them forward. But standard economic theory tells us
Why the Mismatch?
In periods of negative growth, such as the one we found ourselves in throughout the pandemic, it is essential that policy actions intended
Education: Charity or Quality
A conglomerate of more than a million schools and 9931 universities, of which 77.8% are privately managed institutions and 22.5% are government colleges,
CPI: Inflation and Shortfall
The CPI is the index number which measures the changes in the prices of the consumer goods purchased by the consumer in the
