India's stance on a BRICS currency comes as members face major differences in exchange rates, economic structures, capital flows and political trust.
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India's stance on a BRICS currency comes as members face major differences in exchange rates, economic structures, capital flows and political trust.
Safe and affordable housing remains a key barrier for working women, with India's Sakhi Niwas scheme facing low funding and limited hostel capacity.
The next geopolitical contest won't just be about who controls data or who builds AI models. It will also be about who builds, owns and protects the infrastructure that carries it.
This week's stories are about what happens when someone keeps pursuing a long-term objective despite short-term criticism, setbacks or changing circumstances.
Kevin Warsh has not delivered the rate cuts Donald Trump once demanded, but the Fed chair's plans to reshape policymaking, communication and the central bank's role suggest Trump may have secured something more consequential.
US crude production has climbed to nearly 14 million barrels per day despite the number of active oil rigs falling to 451. Longer horizontal wells, shorter drilling times and policy changes have allowed producers to extract more oil with fewer rigs.
China produces more than it consumes and runs a persistent trade surplus. Economists agree on the imbalance, but a stronger yuan versus structural reform has opened a deeper debate over how Beijing should respond.
This week's newsletter examines India's labour market, women's employment, informal businesses, inequality and the untapped potential shaping economic growth.
As AI takes over more of the coding, humans need to develop reasoning and judgment, and ask better questions.
When experts, influencers or economists simplify, take a side, and avoid nuance, the collective output is bad for everyone, and the quality of economic discourse collapses.
An unstable household teaches the body a different lesson. Constant conflict, social isolation, poverty or unsafe neighbourhoods keep stress hormones high.
ASUSE data shows India's informal sector productivity varies widely across 46 cities, with industrial clusters, GVA per worker and women-led businesses shaping outcomes.
Small but crucial things such as women's safety, predictable hours, basic protections, and clear contracts in informal work could decide whether women stay in the labour force or drop out.
Across India's million-plus cities, three out of every ten potential workers fall into the NEET category. But the gender divide is enormous: 6% for men versus 56% for women.
Economic partnerships become powerful only when each country helps solve the other's problems. And the India-Japan partnership has many such complementarities.
When paper leaks, scandals, fake universities, and even fake teachers on payrolls keep surfacing without serious action, parents and students stop trusting the system.
Uruguay is one of the absolute leaders in renewable energy. The country skips the sloganeering, while getting the job done, and fast. Other nations can learn a lot from this journey.
Reforms are messy, but Odisha shows what happens when you keep at it. The state fixed its power sector piece by piece, even after the first attempt collapsed.
Business is not only about greed, glamour, or gravitas. It is also about judgment, uncertainty, persuasion, discipline, failure, and responsibility.
Japan is now India's 10th-largest trading partner, and India is Japan's 14th. With the recent Modi-Takaichi meeting, the relationship appears to deepen even further.