food

The final attempt of bringing Health to India’s Plate

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Where should the government invest if it wants to maximize India’s long-run economic growth, given fiscal and capacity constraints? This was the question posed in the 2015-16 Economic Survey. The short answer- “the highest economic returns to public investment in human capital in India lay in maternal and early-life health […]

Financial crisis

Why are recessions always a shock?

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Financial models that are widely used by various analysts, investors and hedge fund managers across the world have their foundation in economic theories. But the real question that arises with respect to these models that are so relied upon by people to help them make their investment decisions, that tell […]

Indian Farmer

Agrigators: transforming farmers’ lives ‘organically’

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Dr.K.Karthikeyan, founder of Agrigators organic Agriculture  farming and retail Project has agreed to shed light on his organic business model for The Public Economist: To introduce myself, My family have a history of more than 100 years in organic Agriculture and Ayurvedic Treatments. I am passionate in organic agriculture to […]

Stock performance

How elections will affect your investment strategy?

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India will be voting to choose its 15th prime minister in the Lok Sabha Elections this year. April-May 2019 will observe the integration of politics and financial markets so much so that the market will be clinging to every bit of news flow and reacting to it. The investors are […]

reserve bank of india

A take on RBI and Government stand off

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The ongoing tussle between the government and the RBI regarding various issues has seen a new turn with the resignation of Urjit Patel as the RBI chief and paving the way for the appointment of Shaktikanta Das, a former economic affairs secretary at the Finance Ministry, for the top job. […]