China in America’s Backyard: A Counterbalance to US Unipolarity?
Were China to fetch up in the American hemisphere – a naval presence in Panama’s waters for instance – will the world complain about the counterbalance to US unipolarity?
TK Arun
TK Arun is a Senior Journalist and Columnist based in Delhi.
Manmohan Singh: Pioneering India’s Global Growth and Digital Transformation
It is conventional wisdom to hail Manmohan Singh as the author of India’s economic reforms. This is misconceived. That credit goes to PV Narasimha Rao. Only a prime minister can strategise and execute a paradigm shift in the nation’s economic policy. He would need a number of technocrats to carry out that job intelligently, and Manmohan Singh, as Rao’s finance minister led a team of able technocrats, among whom we should note the likes of Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Shankar Acharya and C Rangarjan at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), India’s central bank. To call Manmohan Singh the author of economic reforms is like saying that contract manufacturers Foxconn and Pegatron make the iPhone, and not Apple.
2025: A Year of Global Disruption and Transformation
The year 2025 will be marked by disruption — in global economic interactions and geopolitics, and in the way factories produce and how companies are run. Growth is likely to slow down in most parts of the world.
Concerns over the Growing Trade Deficit are Misguided
TK Arun The govt would rather sustain the narrative of corruption under the UPA than design new PPP policies for large, broad-based private investment in infrastructure. INDIA’S September quarter (Q2) growth came in at a disappointing 5.4 per cent. The…
Misaligned incentives got United Healthcare CEO Killed
The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has put the spotlight back on the structural problems with the health insurance industry in America.
EPF Pension Controversy: Accountability and the Role of the Central Provident Fund Commissioner
TK ARUN Should the Central Provident Fund Commissioner be sent to jail? He is culpable of multiple offences: one, contempt of the Supreme Court, two, administering mental torture to about 17 lakh pension applicants who have applied for higher pension,…