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Rise and Fall of London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)- A Transition in Global Financial System
Praveen Menon

Man’s fascination for numbers is as old as mankind itself. When the earliest humans settled together as tribal societies, a man with a sense for numeric alone could successfully calculate strength of rival tribes. The relative numbers in...

November 9, 2023 Download
Tags: Bank interest Reference rates, Global Financial System, International finance, LIBOR, LIBOR finance, RBI regulations, Regulatory management of trade, Economic Studies
Rare Earth: Has US Lost the Technology Battle Against China?
Brigadier V Mahalingam (Retd)

“A Chinese company bought Magnequench,” “Not only did the jobs go to China, but so did the intellectual property and the technological know-how to make those magnets…. I’m not comfortable with the fact that we now have to buy magnets for our...

February 10, 2021 Download
Tags: China, Mining, Rare Earth Elements, US, WTO Dispute, Technological and Scientific Studies, Economic Studies
After Withdrawing from RCEP What Next?
Amb VS Seshadri

… should other members of RCEP be more accommodative towards India’s needs, and signal their willingness to discuss a win-win deal for India, that should be welcome ... the decision to join should be based primarily on whether it can...

December 9, 2019 Download
Tags: FTA Strategy, RCEP, WTO, Economic Studies
The Indian Economy: Casting Away Structural Chains
Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran

... 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...

January 1, 2018 Download
Tags: Economic Development, GDP, Indian Economy, Economic Studies
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