A missile test by China marks its growing nuclear ambitions
THE LAST time China fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) out over the Pacific, Xi Jinping was 27 years old, China’s GDP per head was less than $200 and America…
Pivot wait: RBI’s monetary policy points to a rate cut in February
This is important, as there has been a growing clamour for an immediate repo rate cut as growth had slowed down in the second quarter of 2024-25. The central bank…
Digital public infrastructure could help the world fight climate change
Last week, I was in Brazil, and I had the opportunity to spend time with a wide variety of stakeholders who are building digital government services in the country. I…
India’s GDP growth shocker: Bad news can be good too
The consensus expectation stood at about 6.5% and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was expecting around 7% growth till its October policy, only to pare it to 6.8%. Growth…
RBI MPC: FX, not inflation, curbing degrees of policy freedom
Hence, we believe that in an increasingly volatile world, degrees of freedom for the RBI's monetary policy committee (MPC) to ease policy to support growth would be constrained more by…
Long live the life-altering revolution led by artificial intelligence!
Recognizing this, the Nobel Prize committee awarded all three Nobels for 2024 in science—for Physiology, Chemistry and Physics—to scientists who have approached their fields from the vantage point of AI.…