Tag: Global trade

Climate change in a de-globalising world

The post-Diwali pollution in Indian skies is just one of the many reminders of our civic indifference to pressing longterm pollution and climate change-based global causes. Collectively, amidst the various natural calamities in the last six months like cloudbursts in Uttarakhand, floods in Kerala and the Indian summer filled with sandstorms, leading to loss of...

November 19, 2018

US stocks trade lower amid global tensions, economic data

Fears that an escalation of trade frictions between Washington and its key trading partners may have negative impact on the global economy continued to rattle investors, analysts noted

September 25, 2018

Sensex, Nifty turn choppy on rising global trade war concerns

Investors were cautious after US President Donald Trump Monday announced imposition of new tariffs on an additional USD 200 billion worth of imports from China, escalating the trade war with the Asian giant.

September 18, 2018

Italy, India together in opposing protectionism: Italian PM

Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni on Monday said his country and India are together in opposing increasing protectionism as it is not in the interests of global trade. In a talk on “Italy, the EU and India: A strong partnership in a time of global challenges” here, he said policies supporting growth should be complemented...

October 31, 2017

Shaping new global architecture

By all accounts, Asia’s stock of economic power has been expanding in the last two decades. This has occurred on the back of the rapid and sustained growth of regional economies, not least of which are China and India, whose shares of global trade and GDP have increased considerably during this time. If anything, the...

October 11, 2017