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…
Category Archive: Feature series
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…
Why Asian nations should no longer play the World Bank’s Doing Business ranking game
Tuesday
22nd September
2020
YAN ISLAM | The Doing Business Report (henceforth DBR) is a celebrated flagship publication of the World Bank.
Coping with COVID-19: The perilous case of vaccine inequality
Friday
26th March
2021
YAN ISLAM | The Lancet Commission has urged the global community that rapid vaccination on a global scale is…
Bangladesh at 50: South Asia’s ‘standout star’?
Monday
7th June
2021
YAN ISLAM | Early this year, Bangladesh celebrated its 50th year as an independent nation. ‘The country was…
The UN resolution on global happiness: An Asian perspective
Monday
28th June
2021
YAN ISLAM | Bhutan, a small, land-locked Asian country, became one of the first, if not the first,…
Afghanistan: then and now
Monday
23rd August
2021
YAN ISLAM | Afghanistan is in the news these days as the Taliban, ousted from power following the…
The rise and decline of the World Bank’s Doing Business Report: Why India and Indonesia should be concerned
Friday
22nd October
2021
YAN ISLAM | There was a time when the creators of the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business…
Who’s afraid of inflation?
Tuesday
23rd November
2021
YAN ISLAM | There is a great deal of concern being expressed on inflation across many parts of…
Confronting India’s ‘inequality problem’
Thursday
10th February
2022
YAN ISLAM | In a recent piece, Maitreesh Ghatak, Professor of economics at London School of Economics,…