C P Chandrasekhar & Jayati Ghosh

China’s transformation into a global hub for R&D and innovation poses a challenge that attracts adverse attention from the rest of the world

Supply side disruptions, stockpiling and speculation are driving up global food prices, causing concern in a world yet to recover from the Covid blow

Even before Covid-19, the world was no longer on track to meet the SDG of eliminating hunger by 2030. Matters have got much worse since then

Defying all logic, India’s stock markets have been booming in a year the real economy contracted. A correction is inevitable

The Central government’s cynical and expropriative attitude to the States has worrying consequences for India’s future

The differential ability of nations to resort to increased government spending to deal with the Covid blow may lead to increased income and social deprivation

The external sector does not create any constraint on significantly increased expenditure by the central government

An official survey shows that education spending has gone up sharply in India, forming a huge financial burden on households

Remittances are an important source of income for low/middle-income countries. But nations that rely more on these inflows have been hit harder