Carbon Border Tax & its impact on India’s foreign trade
Carbon Border Tax & its impact on India’s foreign trade
Read more >India’s Act East Policy: Implications on the Regional Manufacturing Activities and Future Growth Potential between India and ASEAN
Presentation at the India-ASEAN Engineering Partnership Summit organised by EEPC on 24th August, 2021. Session on “India’s “Act East” Policy and its Implications on the Regional Manufacturing Activities and Future Growth Potential between India and ASEAN”
Read more >Resource efficiency, circular economy and G20/ B20
𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐥 discussion on Circular Economy: Building partnerships for the Transition
Read more >Carbon border adjustment tax: policy options for India
Presentation at the Trade Promotion Council of India organized #webinar on Climate change vs trade: Securing common ground’ on Friday, 27th August 2021 at 3:00 pm. Link: https://www.tpci.in/indiabusinesstrade/video-gallery/climate-change-versus-trade-securing-common-ground/
Read more >‘Union Budget 2021: Changing the Face of Insurance’
Indian Union Budget 2021-22: The FM, in her Budget speech, announced several measures for the insurance sector, which are likely to ease the problems the sector faces: dearth of capital, depressed insurance penetration and density rates, and dominance of public sector insurers. The insurance sector has traversed through many phases, starting with nationalisation. Life insurance […]
Read more >Horizontal, vertical, and GVC oriented policies in Budget 2021
The Union Budget of 2021-2022 has introduced many schemes. In this blog, I examine these policies in terms of horizontal, vertical, or GVC oriented. GVC oriented policies are those “industrial policies that leverage international supply chain linkages or dynamics to improve a country’s role in global or regional value chains” (Gereffi and Sturgeon, 2013). Gereffi […]
Read more >Will the PLI Scheme help achieve scale in Indian manufacturing?
The Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme was announced for pharmaceuticals and medical devices in March 2020, and notified in July 2020 for mobile and allied equipment. The scheme has received the green signal from the Union Cabinet (PIB, 2020). Subsequently, ten sectors have been identified for the scheme; these are advance chemistry cell (ACC) batteries, electronic/technology […]
Read more >Indian Economy at the Crossroads: Towards Reform or Further Stagnation?
Can the RCEP strengthen global cooperation for trade, investment and sustainable development? (with Amrita Saha)
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), a historic trade agreement accounting for nearly 30% of global GDP, was signed on 15 November 2020 by fifteen Asia-Pacific countries, including China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand. With the potential to impact lives of one third of the global population, RCEP is being heralded as the […]
Read more >The developer’s dilemma in India – the role of politics and economic ideology (with Sabyasachi Kar)
Policy makers seeking inclusive growth frequently face the developer’s dilemma between prioritizing structural transformation, which is potentially inequitable, and keeping a check on rising economic inequality. How this dilemma is resolved by different countries and what factors influence the choices made, are important research questions. In a new working paper, we analyse the Indian developmental […]
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