Beginning today I will be writing a weekly column for HT Premium which will look at a political economy puzzle facing contemporary India. We've named it Terms of Trade.
The first one asks why fuel price protests aren't gaining popular traction
https://t.co/3d1Re0nexv
Prashant Kishor's enigma and hard work has lowered the entry barrier for him in politics, but he will have to blend radical rhetoric and realpolitik to make an impact (link in next tweet)
Prashant Kishor's enigma and hard work has lowered the entry barrier for him in politics, but he will have to blend radical rhetoric and realpolitik to make an impact (link in next tweet)
Terms of Trade (free to read): The BJP has expanded its political footprint in Bihar but has seen a simultaneous weakening of its core in the state is the biggest message of the latest results
https://t.co/7gW7EMJ2yv
Terms of Trade (free to read): The BJP has expanded its political footprint in Bihar but has seen a simultaneous weakening of its core in the state is the biggest message of the latest results
https://t.co/7gW7EMJ2yv
Only one of the 31 rounds to be counted. But no other by poll has drawn as much interest as this one since the 1994 Vaishali PC by poll when Lovely Anand won her 1st election.
Let’s see what the voters have decided for PK
Only one of the 31 rounds to be counted. But no other by poll has drawn as much interest as this one since the 1994 Vaishali PC by poll when Lovely Anand won her 1st election.
Let’s see what the voters have decided for PK
Trump admin may impose a $100K fee on OPT (the pathway foreign grads use to work in the US after graduating). What has been the importance of OPT for foreign students in the US? How will this impact Indian students in the US? Today's HT Number Theory explores in detail.
Terms of Trade: These protests are good news for Indian democracy & not just the Opposition. They impart agency to the people, demand urgency from the powers that be & show us that Indian politics will not just be the sum of doles & ethnic fissures.
https://t.co/5CSdF6an2k
Beginning today I will be writing a weekly column for HT Premium which will look at a political economy puzzle facing contemporary India. We've named it Terms of Trade.
The first one asks why fuel price protests aren't gaining popular traction
https://t.co/3d1Re0nexv
Sth I wrote in the aftermath of July 20.
“But Monday’s optics might have let in the Trojan horse of the Opposition’s narrative, which tries to portray the government as wrong and vengeful in what was perhaps its ideologically fortified constituency.”
https://t.co/Ik7PBxu4jy
"While battles around employment & employment-generating education have been fought on partisan lines in the past three and a half decades...the latest agitation marks an instance where concern over the quality of the pie trumped those over its distribution" -- @Roshanjnu
Out now: Part 2 of Apoorva Jadhav's @CarnegieSAsia series on "India’s Unfinished Demographic Dividend."
"Cities will be India's economic powerhouse, but only if the country accurately captures city growth and empowers cities to support their citizens." https://t.co/8s9FLILhHw
Superb by . @jburnmurdoch
"If macroeconomic conditions lead everyone’s wealth to double, relative shares are unchanged. But if that wealth boom is not matched by a corresponding rise in wages suddenly the same-sized relative gaps matter much more"
https://t.co/KnYpCnaK6b