C P Chandrasekhar & Jayati Ghosh

The Covid crisis has raised government debt the world over. After the crisis, the recovery will depend on how governments choose to repay this debt

The NSSO’s time use survey reveals striking facts about how men and women in India spend their time very differently, with women hugely burdened by unpaid work

The emergence of a trade surplus in India’s balance of payments over the first five months of FY21 signals the behaviour of an economy in recession

To treat the divergence in the performance of stock markets and the real economy as purely externally driven and only capable of self-correction, is to avoid taking action

Compared to other South Asian countries, there are significant shortfalls in India’s management of the pandemic. This is due to relative long-term neglect of health provisions here

If we can treat 2019-20 as a year when the “teething problems” associated with GST must have been largely overcome, there is no question that this performance is poor

Developing Asia’s external debt can emerge as a major vulnerability due to its composition, especially the greater reliance on short-term debt and foreign holders of debt securities

In its response to the Covid-19 crisis, the Fed stepped up the flow of dollar liquidity at home and in global dollar funding markets. But will this help in near-term recovery?

In a bid to manage the fiscal deficit, the Centre significantly reduced its public expenditure. However, this contracted aggregate demand at a time when it actually needed a boost