Trade

The Stranglehold Continues at the WTO

The World Trade Organization may have given up on its ambitious trade agendas of the 1990s, but its decisions on individual issues continue to be controlled by the US and the EU. Despite public…
▶27-Jul-2022
D. Ravi Kanth
Explainer

Surely, We Could Trade This for Something Else…

Mainstream trade theory suppresses the variations and complexities of real life to produce an unsustainable myth of ‘Trade is Good’. Such theories have produced global inequalities and tensions,…
▶10-Aug-2020
Praveen Singh

India’s Economic Dependence on China

India cannot afford to cut its economic links with China since imports from its northern neighbour dominate sections of the economy, especially in electronics and pharmaceutical intermediates. This…
▶23-Jul-2020
Biswajit Dhar, KS Chalapati Rao

Knowns and Unknowns in the Covid-triggered Global Economic Crisis

The traditional toolbox of fiscal and monetary measures will not help deal with the exogenous shock given by Covid-19 to the global economy. In these unknown waters for now the state can at best ramp…
▶03-Apr-2020
C.P. Chandrasekhar