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Why Following in Milei’s Footsteps Would Be Bad for Brazil
Project Syndicate
How a Pause on Frontier AI Could Work
Project Syndicate
A student movement in Maharashtra that brought institutional accountability into focus
Vishwajeet Kadam · The Hindu
TCA Anant: Is India in a vibecession? Household sentiment lags economic performance
T C A Anant · Mint
The Nobel prize winners for 2026 rebuilt stabilization policy—Here's why that matters
Amarendu Nandy · Mint
Young Men on Welfare, Like Brad, Are Not Just Political Symbols
Bloomberg
Shashi Tharoor: When citizens march to defend the vote, democracy speaks
Shashi Tharoor · Indian Express
China’s Panda Diplomacy Is Losing Its Charm
Project Syndicate
Fire and smoke are choking Southeast Asia—but Singapore is equipped to save the day
Mint
The Blindness of China’s All-Seeing State
Project Syndicate
IPCC Report: Petrostates Try to Hijack Climate Science Again
Bloomberg
Needed: A labour strategy that can contain AI job displacement without stifling innovation
Saumitra Bhaduri · Mint
British Politics Has a New Ruthless Party
Bloomberg
Trump's Russia Diesel Deal Won't Help the US But Aids Putin
Bloomberg
Rupee stopgap: RBI's new props have boosted its external value but this only spells momentary relief
Mint
New conflict in Ethiopia can become a global problem
Gurjit Singh · Hindustan Times
Moving governance from welfare to empowerment
Jyotiraditya Scindia · Hindustan Times
Preparing for a super, monster, Godzilla El Niño
Hindustan Times
Replace the intra-African trade share with a meaningful statistic about trade integration
Brookings
Why Congress must not smear CJP
The Hindu
Nobel lesson: value of stabilisation models
Sushanta Kumar Mahapatra · The Hindu
Economic Times
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Blackstone’s AI Data Center Deals Are Looking Shaky
Bloomberg
GST reforms aim to boost compliance by removing fear, widening tax base
V Anantha Nageswaran and K Balasubramanian · Economic Times
India-U.S. ties and the hurdle of American unilateralism
The Hindu
India’s problem of overtreatment and overmedication
The Hindu
From reform to results: what global business reforms mean for India
Priyanka Goswami and Rohini Rangachari Karnik · BusinessLine
Trump’s Misguided War Against Effective Altruism
Project Syndicate
In Nepal, young PM Balen Shah is falling into old fault lines
Indian Express
From reading texts to reading data: the making of digital humanities
The Hindu
RBI’s FX defence: After the swap scheme, back to the barricades
Dhananjay Sinha · BusinessLine
Where is the money going? Unpacking a decade of India’s private sector-led development
Purvi Mehta · Indian Express
Can GOBARdhan fuel efficiency?
BusinessLine
AI Is Changing Motherhood — and Not All for the Better
Bloomberg
Vikrant Vig and Deepa Mani · BusinessLine
Public Investment Is Fiscally Responsible
Project Syndicate
When transfer pricing becomes a tax on Global South
Manmohan Mainali and Purnadev Jena · BusinessLine
Mint
Nobel Prize in Economics Underscores the Case for an Open Fed
Bloomberg
BJP and Congress court OBC votes, but duck the quota question
E Venkatesu · Indian Express
Krishnan Ranganathan · Mint
What an old 20th c. Delhi move
KumKum Dasgupta · Economic Times
Trump’s Oil Deal Needs the Houthis to Behave
Bloomberg
Anthropic Has Bigger Safety and IPO Problems Than Claude's Feelings
Bloomberg
Burnham's Hope to Rejoin EU Isn't Shared by British Chemical Sector
Bloomberg
Nobel Prize 2026: Why Hall and Woodford’s economic research resonates in today’s world
Mint
India’s science problem is not talent, but priorities
Indian Express
Indian military must adapt, just like Russia & Ukraine
Hindustan Times
Emerging economies need to use AI differently
Hindustan Times
Realising Lohia’s vision among top posts
The Hindu
Sincy Wilson and Vaishali R. Venkat · The Hindu
Singapore Can Fix Southeast Asia’s Haze, If It Wants To
Bloomberg
As AI leaders call for slowdown, children need a voice
Brookings
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Devil's in the diesel, get E-truckin'
Arijit Barman · Economic Times
Ashish Gupta · Economic Times
Warming Himalayas demand a rethink on development
Archana Vaidya · The Hindu
Desperate moves to shore up rupee
Jayati Ghosh and CP Chandrasekhar · BusinessLine
Don’t Bet Against the Sports Bets
Bloomberg
A divided southern flank faces Trump 2.0 and NATO 3.0
Brookings
Cancer — an opportunity for manufacturing
Vipin Sondhi and Thulasi Raman KH · BusinessLine
How to Improve Global Mineral Governance
Project Syndicate
The two blind spots of megaproject appraisal
Brookings
A Global Debt Crisis Is Looming
Project Syndicate
In science, innovation, technology, a transformative decade
Abhay Karandikar · Indian Express
Free Universal After-School Would Help Kids, Parents and the Economy
Bloomberg
Robinhood’s AI Agents Won’t Help You Beat the Market
Bloomberg
Europe Must Look Beyond the US and China to Solve Its Productivity Problem
Project Syndicate
A digital India needs Wi-fi for everyone
Indian Express
Unpopulist opinion: Why free market economists probably feel like grand failures right now
Mint
Trump’s Energy Midterms Will Be Worse Than Biden’s
Bloomberg
Rising Bond Yields Are No Substitute for Tighter Monetary Policy
Bloomberg
Narendra Modi is a real fiscal hawk—both as CM and PM, he doubled down on revenues, plugged leakages
Mint
India’s Securities Markets Code: Lawmakers must put Sebi’s revisionary authority to scrutiny
Sumit Agrawal and M. S. Sahoo · Mint
New Development Bank: Brics’ multilateral lender has established itself but has a long way to go
Mint
Chandrajit Banerjee: How India’s SME Growth Fund could create globally competitive businesses
Chandrajit Banerjee · Mint
We Should Worry More About English Girls' Education
Bloomberg
Good and simple tax: How the GST Council's latest reforms are finally making it a reality
Mint
Kamal Aron Mitra Chenoy, a teacher who embodied life of mind, and conscience
Indian Express
The next farm revolution must aim at significantly raising farmers’ incomes
Indian Express
The AI challenge: How to maximise economic impact, spread gains evenly
Indian Express
The middle-power question that New Delhi faces today
Happymon Jacob · Hindustan Times
Fat commissions, thinning markets
Monika Halan · Hindustan Times
Rahul Gandhi seizes the streets, but Delhi remains distant
Shashi Shekhar · Mint
Exploring the urgency of police pursuit in The Clash's 'Police on My Back' from Sandinista!
Economic Times
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India-UK trade deal to boost bilateral trade by £25.5 billion annually by 2040
Economic Times
Al Jazeera English
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A year after the ‘ceasefire’, Gaza’s healthcare is still collapsing
Al Jazeera English
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How structural inequalities are impeding Americans’ aspirations for cross-racial cooperation
Brookings
Could the green-card crackdown send American jobs to India?
Indian Express
GST reforms will sustain growth momentum, help face global headwinds
Indian Express
Americans agree on corruption, but partisanship shapes who is blamed
Brookings
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Reduced immigration and net out-migration are slowing growth in the DMV region
Brookings
RBI’s repo rate hike: Inflation must be tackled in a global context weighing against macro stability
Mint
The adjustment of the Danish labour market to AI has begun
VoxEU (CEPR)
Cultural norms matter for macroeconomic development
VoxEU (CEPR)