India’s employment crisis
Tuesday
5th February
2019
YAN ISLAM | The Indian government recently got mired in controversy when it apparently tried to suppress a report…
Category Archive: Region | India and South Asia
Lest we forget the post-election reality: ‘Happiness’ in Modi’s India
Friday
7th June
2019
YAN ISLAM | Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to another landslide victory in the…
The great Indian GDP debate: Has the former Chief Economic Adviser got it right?
Wednesday
26th June
2019
YAN ISLAM | Arvind Subramanian, now at Harvard and the Petersen Institute for International Economics, was the former Chief…
Floating farms of Bangladesh: A home-grown strategy to adapt to climate change
Monday
28th October
2019
YAN ISLAM | Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate change. Flooding regularly affects about 1 million people. One…
Reflections on Pakistan’s rural economy in the wake of the government’s agreement with the IMF
Monday
4th November
2019
YAN ISLAM | I was recently invited by the Pakistan Office of the ILO, based in Islamabad, to…
Revisiting India’s growth slowdown: How bad is it?
Tuesday
21st January
2020
YAN ISLAM | Abhijit Banerjee, who, along with Esther Duflo (his partner) and Michael Kremer, won the latest…
India goes into lock-down to fight COVID-19: Is the cure worse than the disease?
Thursday
2nd April
2020
India goes into lock-down to fight COVID-19: Is the cure worse than the disease as desperate migrant workers struggle to…
The economic consequences of COVID-19: For the first time in 60 years, growth is expected to be zero in the Asian region
Friday
24th April
2020
The Asian region, which includes some of the most dynamic economies in the world and accounts for more than 60%…
How the great Indian lockdown became the great Indian ‘policy disaster’
Thursday
23rd July
2020
What happened? How did the great Indian lockdown fail to produce the expected outcomes? It appears that, instead of ‘flattening’…
India in the wake of a pandemic-driven recession: Massive loss, modest response?
Monday
7th September
2020
YAN ISLAM | India’s national statistical agency announced on August 31 that quarterly (April to June, 2020) GDP…