Asian Growth Story – Page 2 – NICKELED AND DIMED

Inefficient Fiscal Management, Extreme Populism and Increasing Dictatorial Powers: The Making of the Sri Lankan Economic Crisis

Given the problem of ‘twin deficit’– a budget shortfall as well as a current account deficit – it is natural to ponder how a country that consistently performed better than its neighbors in terms of various social indicators dug itself deep into this bottomless hole?
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The Future of Hydrogen Vehicles

By holistically understanding the properties of hydrogen fuel, a comparison between hydrogen fuel and other alternatives can be drawn which will help to further understand the best and most sustainable option in the world today.
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How Data Localization Will Boost India’s Economic Growth

This article tries to analyse the data localisation regime in India hitherto and the changes that are sought with the Personal Data Protection Bill with reference to the Joint Parliamentary Committee Report. It lays emphasis on how the data localisation is likely to boost the economic growth of India.
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A Lost Comparative Advantage? Case of India’s Electronics Manufacturing Sector

A piece on India’s ailing electronics manufacturing sector by Deepanshu Mohan and Mehak Malhotra argues that unintended oversight in a hurried liberalisation policy as well as a shift in focus towards the IT software industry during the 90s gave the electronics hardware industry an early blow from which it has been unable to recover…
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What do Monetary Policies of advance economies have in store for Emerging Markets?

In a highly integrated global economy, the actions of central banks of developed countries generate significant spillovers for developing economies. Richa Sekhani explores the possible effects that developing countries need to watch out for to safeguard their stability… Following the global downturn post 2008, the advanced economies of the world particularly the US has sought…
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India-Afghanistan: A Tie from the Past

In this essay, Srilaxmi Sriram explores India’s historical relationship with Afghanistan and underlines the future potential as well as possible obstacles which can serve as deterrents in smooth economic and political relations. Afghanistan, as a rich land with abundant resources, has been a crucial area since the Mughal rule in India. Since that period, Afghanistan…
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India-Nepal Oil Pipeline to Enhance Regional Connectivity

Richa Sekhani examines the Oil Pipeline Project involving India and Nepal and explores its potential to enhance Nepal’s economy, connectivity and regional cooperation. The South Asian region has remained the least integrated in the world and has not been able to optimally utilise its existing potential because of fragmented transportation and communication systems in the…
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Jekyll and Hyde: South Korea’s Family Businesses

Sayantan Chanda talks about the yet existing stronghold of the ‘Chaebols’ in South Korea and what consequences it holds for the South Korean economy and society. The Republic of Samsung-land is the name that many South Koreans these days have given to their country.[i] Founded in a by-gone era of instability and uncertainty, Samsung has…
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China 2015: Resetting the Asian Growth Story?

Regional multilateral forums are giving China a solid platform to assert its rising strength. Years of stellar economic performance has allowed Beijing to exert quite the influence in the Asia-Pacific region through these forums. Initiatives of development bank, regional security grouping, trade deals and economic strategies are announced and underlined in these forums. But as…
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From Kunming to Kolkata through the BCIM Route

Kunming to Kolkata connectivity is sought via China-backed BCIM economic corridor. What implications does it hold for India? Manish Vaid explains. In order to find new ground for Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar Economic Corridor (BCIM-EC), all the countries concerned have done their part to push hard for this project. But it was during 2013, when…
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