Globalisation

Well-known Indian companies are investing in Egypt, world of possibilties can be seen, says EAM Jaishankar

Jaishankar also highlighted climate change which is acting as the biggest disruptive factor and emphasized on increase in natural disasters in the Indian subcontinent and urged for sustainable solutions

Going beyond Jaishankar’s new mantra of ‘reformed multilateralism’

India needs to prioritise the groupings for its own good through the medium and long terms. Else, others would take decisions that would affect and afflict India

Retake | The great Indian marriage and its discontents after globalisation

The 90s cinema, especially the post-globalisation era, interpreted marriage as more than just a destination, as maybe a cynical means to an equally perceivable glorious end.

Battered but not broken: How global trade is responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

It has been suggested this conflict could be remaking the world order, with Russia choosing territorial hegemony over global trade

How economic reforms of 1991 focussed on urban centres at the cost of rural India

In the changed scenario, there are many incentives and concessions to develop industrial clusters and corridors but nothing for an industrialist if she desires to set up a unit in far-flung areas

WHO warns that vaccine hoggin nations won't be safe from COVID-19 if poor countries are still exposed

Tedros Ghebreyesus said, "For the world to recover faster, it has to recover together because it's a globalised world: the economies are intertwined."

COVID-19 crisis puts China's monopoly of global supply chains in focus, but presumptions of India benefitting are misguided, here's why

COVID-19 has thrown light on a global blind spot. The world has suddenly woken up to the reality that a hegemonic China has become the irreplaceable fulcrum of a globalised economy and is using that leverage to develop untrammeled power.

As coronavirus outbreak exposes faultlines in long supply chains, are locally self-sufficient economies the way forward?

A lot of food in India was and largely still is produced by small and marginal farmers. The lives of such farmers tended to be hard even at the best of times. The coronavirus crisis and its economic impact probably won’t leave them untouched. A shift to local may help at least some of them.

Coronavirus Outbreak: Pandemic has done what trade war, terrorism, refugee crisis couldn’t, end globalism as we know it

Covid-19 is causing a twofold disruption to upend globalism — economic and cultural.

After India declines to join RCEP, China says it will follow principle of 'mutual understanding' to resolve outstanding issues

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday conveyed India's decision not to join the RCEP deal at a summit meeting of the 16-nation bloc, effectively wrecking its aim to create the world's largest free trade area having half of the world's population.