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Beyond Signatures

India’s recent trade diplomacy has produced an unusual paradox. New Delhi is negotiating or concluding trade agreements with a range of partners even as questions persist about what earlier agreements have actually delivered.

Pareto Minimality

Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto (1848-1923), an Italian Polymath (trai - ned in physics and mathematics) whose genius radiated into the major fields of knowledge especially, sociology, civil engineering, economics, political science and philosophy had made several contributions to economic theories.

Unyielding Resolve

In the on-going saga of global trade tensions, the persistent standoff between China and the United States has become a defining chapter.

China & Nepal

The expanded trade had not helped Nepal not the least because it contended with a huge deficit. China has now restricted the issue of visas to Nepali traders who have been forced to place orders virtually. Many traders have complained that they have been shortchanged in terms of quality as they had to place orders virtually.

Subaltern Economics

The RBI-appointed KV Kamath Committee, which worked out the financial parameters for loan restructuring, has concluded that 72 per cent of banking sector debt worth Rs 37.72 lakh crore was under stress. Further, according to the Committee, the coronavirus pandemic is not solely responsible for the stressed loans; Rs 23.71 lakh crore, or 45 per cent of banking sector debt, was already under stress

Ecology and Economics

The underlying assumption is that if the environment is treated as a commodity and given a price, this will create a market for environmental factors. And depending on the demand and supply for environmental goods, a price will be attached to each one.

Ashoka University’s Economics Department ranked no. 1

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