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Covid-19 and Indian Economy
April 06, 2020 Amb Anil Trigunayat, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

Epidemic is inversely proportional to economic enterprise and growth in any country. Likewise, any pandemic has a penchant to puncture the global economic growth. Corona virus will lead to recession and economic collapse if corrective measures with r....

Governance and Political Studies , Economic Studies

Tags : Commentary , World Bank , Covid , IMF , PM CARES Fund , 2008 financial crisis , GDP growth rate , contraction of economy , Economic Intelligence Unit , Corona impact , Coronisation
The China Factor in RCEP
November 26, 2019 Amb Anil Wadhwa, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Article

After seven years of negotiations, the 16 participating states in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement issued a statement on 4 November 2019 at Bangkok, conveying that 15 of the participating states had concluded text-base....

Economic Studies

Tags : Article , RCEP conditions , India’s economic interests vs RCEP
Brexit and UK Elections
November 01, 2019 Amb D P Srivastava, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

The Brexit debate has spilled over from Parliament to vote in elections. British Prime Minister Johnson suffered an initial set-back when Parliament voted Letwin Amendment on 19th October to delay Brexit deal by a vote of 322 to 306 until after it ....

Economic Studies

Tags : Commentary , Brexit manoeuvres , UK and EU , Brexit economics
Potential Paradigms of Connectivity: The Vladivostok Summit
September 03, 2019 Amb Asoke Mukerji, Distinguished Fellow, VIF Commentary

The annual Summit mechanism between India and Russia, established during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s first visit to India in October 2000, marks its 20th anniversary on 4-5 September 2019 in Vladivostok. Today, Vladivostok is Russia’s ....

International Relations and Diplomacy , Economic Studies

Tags : Commentary , Vladivostok Summit , Indo-Russia economic cooperation
An India-US Trade War Now?
June 28, 2019 Rajesh Soami Commentary

The United States, under President Trump, has been at loggerheads with a long list of countries on trade related issues. This includes China, Canada, Mexico and India. The European Union has also suffered. In fact, the Trump administration has used t....

Economic Studies

Tags : Commentary , US trade sanctions , US-India trade relations , American unilateralism on trade
Moreh-Tamu: An Unfulfilled Potential
June 26, 2019 Dr Sreeradha Datta Article

For India, Myanmar is a vital neighbour, located at a cusp connecting the region of South Asia to Southeast Asia. In the wake of India’s increasing engagement with the Southeast Asian neighours including the ASEAN countries, the Myanmar connect is ....

Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Economic Studies

Tags : Article , Indo-Myanmar border trade , Organising border trade with Myanmar , Moreh-Tamu
Dissecting Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030
April 04, 2019 Hirak Jyoti Das, Senior Research Associate, VIF Article

Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 document notes that the path to their future lies in three pillars, i.e., its status as the centre of the Muslim and Arab world; its desire to emerge as a global investment powerhouse and as the epicentre of trade connect....

Economic Studies

Tags : Article , Saudi Arabian economy , Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030
Italy-EU-BRI- An Uncomfortable Triumvirate
March 18, 2019 Aayush Mohanty Commentary

The Belt and Road initiative (BRI) has taken a lot of criticism from financial institutions as well from some of the countries which had endorsed it when the project was launched in 2013. While the momentum of the BRI in Asia might have slowed down, ....

Economic Studies

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दोराहे पर वैश्विक अर्थव्यवस्थाः क्या डिजिटलीकरण है आगे की राह
January 25, 2019 Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF Article

मौजूदा वैश्विक राजनीतिक उथल-पुथल की कड़ियां अब सुस्त पड़ती वैश्विक अर्थव्यवस्था से जुड़ती जा �....

Economic Studies

Tags : Hindi , Article , वैश्विक अर्थव्यवस्था , आर्थिक असमानता , डिजिटलीकरण पर ध्यान
Will International Oil Prices Continue to be Volatile?
December 28, 2018 Aayush Mohanty Article

India is set to enter 2019 as one of the fastest growing economies in the world with a growth rate projection by the International Monetary Fund, set at 7.4 percent and Organisation for Economic Development at 7.5 percent.1 But such a fore....

Economic Studies

Tags : Article , India’s economic growth , oil prices
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