India will hold 'Voice of Global South' summit on 12 & 13 January. Inputs from developing nations will be channelised into larger discourse, says foreign secretary Vinay Kwatra.
Pakistan and IMF are engaged in tough talks in Doha over the $3 billion loan programme. It's just that IMF can see through Debt-ridden Pakistan's designs.
When Pakistan goes bankrupt in a few months, China could be looking for an alternative route to ports in the Indian Ocean. Can Delhi alter the South Asian geopolitics?
India's centrality in the Indo-Pacific trade architecture should have made New Delhi launch IPEF much before US President Joe Biden did. It can still be a rule maker.
China has a history of hiding loans as trade credit or routing them through special purpose vehicles. It exacerbated, but didn't cause economic mismanagement in borrowing nations.
The share of traditional moneylenders to rural credit has come down significantly as institutional financing has become more accessible in a post Jan-Dhan account-holding India.
Of the amount due in the G20 debt plan, $7.17 billion, was to China and the amount is likely to rise to $10.51 billion next year if the debt service is extended.
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
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