Indian Economy
Igniting Total Factor Productivity Growth in Indian Economy

For decades, India has looked upon China as competitor in the economic sphere and rightly so. Indian civilization has historically been an economic superpower for centuries ahead of China. It was inevitable in contemporary economic history that a...

Interaction with Dr Anantha Nageswaran on Union budget 2020-21

The Vivekananda International Foundation recently organized a talk by Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran on the Union Budget 2020-21 and the macroeconomic challenges that the country faces. Dr. Nageswaran is a member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory...

Maritime Transport has the Potential to Reinvigorate Indian Economy

… maritime transport can play a major role not only in creating mass jobs but also in enhancing the technical thresholds … investment in port infrastructure and shipbuilding sectors can absorb unskilled labour in large numbers … its manifestations...

The Indian Economy: Casting Away Structural Chains

... successful economic development and the achievement of middle-income status in the twenty-first century is arguably considerably more difficult than it has been in the previous two centuries. Hence, the burden on the political leadership today...

Book Release: “Black Money and Tax Havens”, authored by Professor R Vaidyanathan

On 3 November 2017, the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), New Delhi, hosted the launch of Professor R Vaidyanathan’s latest book titled ‘Black Money and Tax Havens’. Professor R Vaidyanathan is Dean of Centre for Economic Studies at the...

विशाखापत्तनम बंदरगाह नेपाल के लिए अधिक लाभकारी

प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी की पड़ोसियों के साथ मेलजोल (नेबरहुड कनेक्टिविटी) की नीति के एक हिस्से के रूप में भारत ने 2016 में नेपाल को तीसरे देश के साथ व्यापार के लिए आंध्र प्रदेश में विशाखापत्तनम बंदरगाह का प्रयोग करने की इजाजत दे दी। नेपाल लंबे समय...

De-mon — huge, successful course-correction

Of all the multidimensional corrective elements that were missed — actually, side-stepped if not suppressed — in the politically uproarious anti-Modi national discourse about the demonetization exercise, the most important element was the huge...

A Round Table Discussion on ‘GST-Making India a Single Market’

The Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), on 23 Aug 2017, gathered a powerful battery of former top bureaucrats and economic policy experts including Mr. K.M. Chandrasekhar, former Cabinet Secretary, Mr. Rajeev Kher, former Commerce Secretary...

GST: A New Era in Indian Taxation

Indian Economy is poised to enter a new era of taxation in the form of implementation of much awaited Goods and Services Tax (GST) with effect from July 01, 2017. The GST Bill was passed unanimously in August, 2016 by the Indian Parliament and after...

Development of Infrastructure in India – The Vehicle for Developing Indian Economy

Abstract Infrastructure is a country’s bedrock of economic, social and human development. It is also inextricably linked with the country’s overall security at the borders. The network of roads and transport, ease of movement and communications,...

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