News: Recently, a new green hydrogen and green ammonia policy has been introduced that envisages building a prominent role for clean fuels in the country’s fossil fuel-dominated energy mix. Contents1 What does the policy offer? 2 What are some issues with the policy? 3 Why is Hydrogen important for India? 4 What is the way forward? What… Continue reading Making Green Hydrogen work
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Manufacturing exports can gain from India’s empowerment push
News: The recent released Budget 2022-23 carries forward the government’s vision of empowering Indians and enabling economic activity. This article discusses how manufacturing can help India in empowering people and increase the growth rate. How manufacturing exports can help India’s empowerment push? First, the weakening of manufacturing in many developed nations has caused social divisions… Continue reading Manufacturing exports can gain from India’s empowerment push
Method to the Make-in-India plan: Decoding our import tariff policy
News: According to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Tariff Profile for 2021, India has one of the highest average tariffs of 15% in the Asia-Pacific region. Contents1 This article discusses the need to align Make-in-India with trade policy.2 What other countries are doing?3 What does India need to learn from previous agreements?4 What is the… Continue reading Method to the Make-in-India plan: Decoding our import tariff policy
The budget spells green-shoot for agri subsectors
News: Although the recently introduced Union Budget has had no big ticket announcements on agriculture and rural development, it tries to focus on sub-sectors that matter such as livestock, fisheries and food processing. Which sub-sectors in agriculture have seen an increase in allocation in the budget? Livestock and fisheries: These two subsectors roughly contribute about… Continue reading The budget spells green-shoot for agri subsectors
After the Harvest
News According to Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare’s Second Advance Estimates of Production of Foodgrains for 2021-22 India’s agriculture sector is all set to create an all-time high production record this year. What has been the agricultural production trajectory in the last decade? Food grain production has gone up from 252 million tonnes in… Continue reading After the Harvest
Corporate governance is a pot on high-heat again
News: SEBI has recently announced that company boards need not compulsorily split the posts of chairperson and managing director between two individuals. This choice is “voluntary” now. This was a roll-back of a directive issued in 2018. Why this decision of SEBI needs to be analyzed in the context of corporate governance? One, in India… Continue reading Corporate governance is a pot on high-heat again
India’s structural opportunity in a new age of financial repression
News: This article discusses the changes going on in the global monetary system and how India can attract capital in this scenario. How the global monetary system is changing? To handle huge levels of debt, the developed world and China need to inflate away their debts. The developed world has discovered it’s new normal in… Continue reading India’s structural opportunity in a new age of financial repression
On an equal footing
News: The growth potential of India cannot be achieved without giving equal opportunity to every State. This article discusses the deprivation faced by many states and suggests few power sector reforms. Contents1 How low-income States (LIS) are deprived on many fronts?2 How energy sector/power play a role in increasing the disparity?3 What changes are needed… Continue reading On an equal footing
The farm deal that needs to be reworked
News: This article discusses the vital issues related to agriculture that the government needs to keep in view while formulating the country’s strategy for future negotiations on agriculture-related matters in various WTO forums. Why AoA of WTO needs to be reviewed? One, Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) under the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its amendments… Continue reading The farm deal that needs to be reworked
The budget spells green- shoot for agri subsectors
News Although Budget has had no big ticket announcements on agriculture and rural development but it tries to focus on subsectors that matter such as livestock, fisheries and food processing. Which sub-sectors in agriculture have seen an increase in allocation in the budget? Livestock and fisheries- These two subsectors roughly contribute about 33% of the… Continue reading The budget spells green- shoot for agri subsectors
