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The Trillion Dollar Question: Can China handle its Debt?

"The men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all." - Will Durant China’s growing role and assertiveness in the international system is concurrent to its economic strength. ....

March 14, 2018 Economic Studies , China’s debt restructuring , Chinese financial system , China’s economic growth

What does the Economic Survey tell us about National Security?

Arvind Gupta, Director, VIF

What does India’s Economic Survey 2017-18 tell us about national security? This may sound an unusual question because in traditional understanding of national security and economy are two separate entities which are not discussed together. The two ....

February 05, 2018 Economic Studies , India’s Economic Survey 2017-18 , external trade , Economic Survey , Jobs , gender , skills , science and technology , agriculture , national security , economic reforms , GST

Anatomy of Agricultural Debt Waivers in India

Akash Solanki

Agriculture plays an important role in the Indian economy with over 58 per cent of rural households dependent on agriculture for their livelihood. As per the 2nd revised estimates by the CSO, the share of agriculture and allied sector (including agri....

January 25, 2018 Economic Studies , Fiscal reforms , farm loan waivers , state finances

Talk by Professor Umberto Sulpasso on 'Gross Domestic Knowledge Product' in the context of India

The Vivekananda International Foundation organized a talk by Professor Umberto Sulpasso on 18 December 2017 on Global Domestic Knowledge Product (GDKP) and its significance to India. The other panellists were Dr Rajiv Kumar (Vice-Chairman, NITI Aayog....

January 04, 2018 Economic Studies , Interaction , R&D , Gross Domestic Knowledge Product , Role of GDKP , GDKP for India

‘DARWINOMICS’ for India: Gross Domestic Knowledge of India

Talk by Umberto Sulpasso, Senior Fellow of Centre for Digital Future, University of Southern California, Los Angeles at the Conference at Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), 18 December 2017 Director Dr. Arvind Gupta, Chai....

January 02, 2018 Economic Studies , Seminars , GDP , Gross Domestic Knowledge Product , Darwinomics

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 is....

January 01, 2018 Economic Studies , Indian Economy , Economic Development , GDP

Where Economics and Strategy Intersect: A Political Economy Approach to Global Power

Amb Prabhat P Shukla

This essay attempts to understand the role of economic power in shaping the world since the Second World War. It focuses on the main strand of economic developments over this period, separated from looking at subsidiary processes related to the Cold....

December 26, 2017 Economic Studies , Economic power , Economic competition , Political Economy Approach

Could Belt and Road Initiative Create Financial Mess for China?

Prerna Gandhi, Associate Fellow, VIF

Since the 2000’s, predicting the timeline on collapse of Chinese economy has been a prominent theme among economists. However, the Chinese economy has proved all naysayers wrong by being resilient, and now joining the ten trillion dollars Gross Dom....

December 04, 2017 Economic Studies , Chinese economy , economic vulnerabilities , Could Belt and Road , Could Belt and Road Initiative , Financial Mess

China-India Cooperation Opportunity: Building the Asian Common Market

(Reproduction of a talk delivered by Lu Gang, Director, IIS Conference, East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai at a Sino-Indian Seminar, held at the VIF on 06 Nov 2017) I am delighted to be here and attend the discussion of the bilateral ....

November 21, 2017 Economic Studies , Belt and Road Initiative , Sino-Indian cooperation

India’s Search for Big Power Status

Pinaki Bhattacharya

Introduction Indian elite’s desire for big power status grew out of a belief about the Indic civilizational values that spread in the ages of antiquity to what we call North West, South East, East and even West Asia. Most of thi....

November 17, 2017 Economic Studies , India’s economic growth , India’s big power goals , reform of domestic systems