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Wednesday, November 26, 2025
TopicEmerging economies

Topic: Emerging economies

With 2 days left, new COP29 climate finance draft text is out—but the actual number is missing

Deciding the quantum and other aspects of climate financing was one of the central aims of this edition of the climate conference, dubbed the 'finance COP' for this reason.

Ukraine is holding a Global Peace Summit. Modi is perfectly placed to mediate

PM Narendra Modi has an opportunity to play peacemaker at the most important peace summit since World War II. India’s well-established relationship with Russia is the key.

Negative views of China are on the rise. Especially in India, but other emerging economies too

Analysis of Pew surveys between 2019 & 2023 shows worsening attitudes towards China in countries including Brazil & Mexico, although some like Nigeria & Kenya show opposite trend.

A BRICS currency can weaken US hold over emerging economies. India needs to decide its role

Before de-dollarisation of BRICS can occur, India must secure a place in IMF's basket of world currencies, where Chinese Renminbi is already included.

Modi govt and Congress squabbling over per capita income, but both are using the wrong measure

Last month, finance ministry celebrated the fact that 'per capita income has more than doubled to Rs 1.97 lakh' since 2014. Congress claims per capita income grew '259 per cent' under UPA.

SubscriberWrites: India’s research and innovation setor is stunted by lack of grants, awareness

India spends only 0.7% of its GDP on research and development, making it difficult for Indian researchers to compete with their peers around the world, writes Sandip Godse.

India’s painful ‘stagflation’ is now spreading to other emerging economies

India may be witnessing the most glaring setback among emerging economies, but its double pain of slowing growth & surging inflation is spreading far and wide.

Has IMF’s Gita Gopinath made India a convenient scapegoat by blaming it for global slowdown?

The IMF has pegged India’s economic growth forecast to 4.8 per cent for 2019-2020, much less than its October 2019 projection of 6.1 per cent.

Remittances from abroad may save India from similar currency crash as Argentina’s

Estimates say India received $69 billion in overseas remittances last year, equivalent to almost 3 per cent of GDP.

Oil shock has already hit India and other emerging economies

India has some of the least affordable transport fuel in the world, with a gallon (3.8 litres) of petrol costing more than three-quarters of average daily income.

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New labour codes make India’s workforce competitive with China—and build Viksit Bharat

By consolidating 29 laws into four codes, compliance is streamlined and regulations are simplified, improving “ease of doing business”. This is bound to improve investor confidence.

Vehicles, TVs, mobile phones—PM EAC report shows rural India is catching up with urban consumers

Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.

General secrets from frozen peaks: A Kargil veteran reveals what politically correct writers left out

At the Jindal Literature Festival, Maj Gen (Retd) Lakhwinder Singh reveals secrets from 25 years ago, speaking about the decision that outwitted Musharraf and changed the course of the war. 

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.