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Ashoka Univ row: Free speech in India suffered 'grievous blow', says Rajan

Raghuram Rajan has said free speech suffered a 'grievous blow' in India with the resignations of Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Arvind Subramanian from the Ashoka University

After Mehta, Subramanian quits Ashoka University; faculty concerned

Over 100 faculty signatories request the vice chancellor to ask Mehta to rescind his resignation

Priyanka slams BJP over Arvind Subramanian's exit from Ashoka University

She said the BJP is saying in West Bengal that it wants to create a ''Sonar Bangla'' while attacking the original spirit of Rabindranath Tagore

Precocious growth in India's skill-intensive sectors worrying: Paul Krugman

Krugman said skill intensive industries generate a lot of GDP and exports but they do not generate a lot of jobs

Is Bangladesh economy really doing better than India? Former CEA doesn't think so

On 'more appropriate' economic metric, Bangladesh has not surpassed India and is unlikely to be in future, former chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian said on Saturday, asserting that GDP per capita is an estimate for one indicator of the average standard of welfare in a country. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had taken a dig at the government over IMF growth projections showing Bangladesh closing in on India in terms of per capita GDP this year and described it as a "solid achievement" of six years of the BJP's "hate-filled cultural nationalism". Government sources had emphasised that India's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in terms of purchasing power parity was 11 times more than that of Bangladesh in 2019. "The India-vs.-Bangladesh GDP per capita comparison (post IMF WEO) has sparked anxiety & acrimony. But wrong numbers being compared... "NO, on more appropriate metric, India has not been surpassed and, according to IMF, unlikely to be in near future," Subramanian said in a ..

Post-Covid federalism: How Centre can build and keep trust with states

Automatic, counter-cyclical transfers from the Centre to states can build trust and prevent trust from being corroded

Former CEA Arvind Subramanian to join Ashoka University as professor

Subramanian is currently visiting lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School.

'Experts want steps to build globally competitive India'

The call for self-reliant India conveys reducing our dependence on others for goods, services, or even investment

India must shed its protectionist attitude: Ex-CEA Arvind Subramanian

If we turn protectionist, I don't know how can we be an exporting power. Self-sufficient exporting powerhouse is an oxymoron," he said.

Dismantling of labour laws will take away workers' protection, says Ex-CEA

India's January-March GDP growth sank to 3.1 per cent, a low not seen in at least 17 years

Covid-19: FRBM framework will need to be updated, says Arvind Subramanian

Addressing a webinar organised by EY India, Subramanian further said while labour reforms were necessary, the way they have been done by some states have undermined basic protections to workers

Waiting for Godot

Experts say that the curve is not yet flattening and the peak may occur as late as mid-August

India's reduced GDP forecasts 'too optimistic': Ex-CEA Arvind Subramanian

Subramanian, along with public policy expert Devesh Kapur of Johns Hopkins University, was speaking at a webinar organised by National Council of Applied Economic Research.

India GDP projections by World Bank, IMF too optimistic: Ex-CEA Subramanian

As per the World Bank's latest assessment, India is expected to grow 1.5 per cent to 2.8 per cent during the current fiscal due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and consequent lockdown

Best of BS Opinion: Covid-19, creating fiscal space for states, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Best of BS Opinion: Govt's moves on farm marketing, Covid-19 fear, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Focusing multilateral money

World Bank and IMF must step up to protect pvt sector, govts

Look back in anger: Why aren't economists setting down roots in India now?

The economic refugees of earlier years have been replaced by well-placed people leaving (or staying away from) India's unattractive political economy, writes T N Ninan

Best of BS Opinion: Lessons for BJP, India's economic slowdown, and more

Here's a collection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

Ex-CEA Subramanian against tax cuts, says no space for fiscal expansion

Subramanian further said that he thinks personal income tax cuts motivated by desired increased consumption are highly inequitable