India unemployment data, PLFS labour market, unemployment india, job quality india, underemployment

India unemployment data hides a job quality problem

India unemployment data shows resilience, but fails to capture insecurity, low wages, and distress employment across India. #unemployment #PLFS Read more »
WEF’s Global Risks Report 2026

Global Risks Report 2026: Economic, climate shocks are converging

The WEF’s Global Risks Report 2026 shows how geoeconomic conflict, climate stress, and trust deficits are reinforcing each other. Read more »
decline of American hegemony

American hegemony is losing what once made it endure

Intervention in Venezuela and threats against Iran show how coercion, not consensus, is hollowing out the foundations of American hegemony. Read more »
India-EU FTA

India-EU FTA: Strategic deal, limited ambition, real gains

The India-EU FTA is close to closure, with gains in manufacturing and services but limits on agriculture and climate trade. #India #EU #FTA #trade Read more »
India-China trade

India-China trade: Structural imbalance, not a one-year problem

India-China trade shows a massive imbalance which is not a 2025 anomaly but the result of long-term dependence on Chinese intermediates and finished goods. #India #China #trade Read more »
state finances, GST 2.0

State finances: GST 2.0 is testing fiscal federalism

GST rationalisation was meant to simplify India’s tax system, but it is now exposing the vulnerabilities of state finances. #GST #finances #states Read more »
Budget 2026

Budget 2026: The fiscal arithmetic is getting harder

Budget 2026 will test whether policymakers read calm as comfort or as a warning to course-correct. #Budget2026 Read more »
ambiguity in crypto regulation

Crypto regulation in India: Why SEBI is set to step in

India is preparing to introduce formal crypto regulation, signalling a shift away from years of deliberate ambiguity. Read more »
India-US Trade deal

India-US trade deal keeps stalling despite strategic warmth

India-US trade deal is on cards, but tariffs, politics, and domestic constraints on both sides continue to block closure. #US #India Read more »
banking transparency

RBI’s push for banking transparency and the right to information

The push for banking transparency draws on Supreme Court precedent and lessons from India’s non-performing assets crisis. #banking #SC #NPA Read more »