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Friday, August 8, 2025
TopicGlobal recession

Topic: Global recession

How close the world is to its first recession since 2009

The IMF’s new boss, Kristalina Georgieva, sees a “serious risk” the slowdown will spread, and it’s likely to cut its 2019 global growth forecast from 3.2%.

Global smartphone supply will be affected by 100-year-old strife between Japan & South Korea

With South Korean electronic device manufacturers reliant on chemicals from Japan, any delay in their production has the potential to disrupt global tech supply chains.

World economy edges closer to a recession as trade dread deepens

While tight labour markets globally and the recent shift by central banks should provide a cushion, economists are starting to war game for how a recession could happen. 

Kanwal Sibal takes on ‘Left-liberals’, T.T. Ram Mohan criticises ‘imported economist’ Subramanian

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

An economist explains what happens if there’s another financial crisis

The big concern is that governments do not have the policy tools they had in 2008 to prevent a financial shock turning into a freefall.

On Camera

US has misread India. New Delhi will hedge, push back, and assert

India’s foreign policy today is driven less by Western alignment or global liberalism and more by domestic political imperatives — economic, ideological, and electoral.

Smartphones, gems, pharma: Which Indian exports will be worst hit by Trump tariffs, which will be spared

Electronics—specifically smartphones—& energy & pharma products make up 30% of Indian exports to US. 25% tariff on India came into effect Thursday, extra 25% to kick in by August-end.

Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to attend CENTCOM chief’s farewell, second visit to US in two months

Munir was earlier in America in June when he had a two-hour luncheon meeting with the US president at the White House.

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.