Indian leaders, mainstream news media, government supporters, and many world leaders and global institutions like the IMF, World Bank, or WEF (World Economic Forum) always talk about India being one of the biggest consumer markets, or the fastest growing consumer market etc. How much truth is there in such claims? In this brief write up […]
Tag Archives: Economic growth
09
Jun
Jun
Of late there are lots of economic falsehoods being spread around about India’s economy by the Modi government, and it’s lapdog media. The first one being India becomes the fourth-largest economy of the world, overtaking Japan, and the second is its extreme poverty rate declining to 5.3% after the World Bank raised its poverty line […]
11
Sep
Sep
India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at the US-India Business Council’s India Ideas Summit said, Instead of inflation, red-lettered priorities for the country would of course be jobs, equitable wealth distribution and making sure India is moving on the path of growth. In this essay I am going to discuss the relationship of inflation with jobs, […]
02
Feb
Feb
Recently Mises Institute President Dr. Madhusudan Raj was invited to deliver a talk on the subject matter of Technology and Economic Growth in an event on 3D Printing technologies organized by the Vishwastratis LLP. In his talk Dr. Raj discussed the factors that are important for developing technologies and using them. He also discussed where […]
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Aug
Aug
India’s new and first female finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in an interview recently said , At this stage, what we are looking at is making sure that consumption is encouraged through various steps that we’re taking, actually get the money into the hands of people, rural, particularly. This whole DBT-based transfer of entitlements to those […]
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