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Thursday, August 21, 2025
TopicArvind Subramanian

Topic: Arvind Subramanian

In Modi’s first term, economic surveys came with big ideas but few saw light of day

Previous chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian presented 4 economic surveys with 4 big ideas that indicated a way forward for comprehensive development.

It wasn’t a mistake to hire ‘Harvard’ economists, but Modi govt should’ve paid heed to them

The country is the loser when top-flight economists leave, especially when growth has slowed and there are macro-economic challenges in every direction.

Satyarthi on cybersex, Panagariya on ‘sensationalising’ GDP figures, Palshikar on majoritarianism

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

‘Spurious criticism’ — PM’s economic council rebuts Arvind Subramanian’s GDP claim

The main contributors of the PM-EAC report are economists Bibek Debroy, Rathin Roy, Surjit Bhalla, Charan Singh and Arvind Vimani.

Nayantara Sahgal says ‘storytelling’ has overrun reality, S.Y. Quraishi on simultaneous elections

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Subhash Kashyap on choosing Leader of the Opposition, Ruchir Sharma on recovery after 2008 recession

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Base year, revised growth, overestimation & all that you need to know about calculating GDP

India's GDP estimates are under scrutiny again this week after former CEA Arvind Subramanian claimed country may have overestimated its growth by 2.5% points.

PM Modi’s economic council will point-by-point rebut ex-CEA’s revised GDP numbers

Ex-economic adviser Arvind Subramanian claimed that India's growth rate has been overestimated by around 2.5% between 2011-12 and 2016-17.

Modi govt denies Subramanian’s claims, says GDP estimates based on accepted methodologies

In a new research paper, former CEA Arvind Subramanian found that India’s GDP growth was overestimated by 2.5% between FY12 and FY17.

Former CEA lowers GDP to 4.5% in 2011-12 to 2016-17 period & Vivek Katju on Pakistan

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

On Camera

KBC completes 25 years. No violence or weeping bahus, just Amitabh Bachchan and his questions

When facts have all but disappeared from political and social discourse, Kaun Banega Crorepati values them — and pays you to get them right.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?