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https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/budget-2020-govt-needs-to-assure-foreign-investors-with-stable-laws-4853971.html Pre Budget notes #4 t RN Bhaskar  --  24 January 2020 By now, there is no doubt that India is sliding down a slippery slope.  Even the IMF recently downgraded India’s economic growth to 4.8% for the coming year (https://mmb.moneycontrol.com/forum-topics/stocks/sbi/thread-message-79498903-81298903.html).  Privately, economists...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/us-crying-wolf-ukraine-germany-russia-china-involved-in-dirty-cloak-and-daggers-game Geopolitics The US is crying wolf: USA, Ukraine, Germany, Russia, China are involved in a dirty cloak and daggers game over NordStream2 RN Bhaskar For the past week this author has been perplexed by the focussed tirade by BBC and CNN against...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-india-could-learn-a-lot-from-post-covid-19-spending-patterns-in-china India must be forward looking, not defensive, as is evident frompost-Covid-19 spending-patterns RN Bhaskar – 13 August, 2020 After a country has been hit by a pandemic, how should people spend money?  Different cultures spend money differently.  There are countries where...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/chinese-are-very-business-oriented-people-says-indo-china-expert Vikrant Jawaharkar - Rockey -- benefits from China-India trade In conversation with Dominic Rebello and RN Bhaskar, Vikrant Jawharkar talks about how the Chinese are business-oriented people. Rebello Dominic RN BhaskarUpdated: Friday, March 17, 2023, 11:32 AM IST 'Chinese are very business-oriented...
Given below is the text of the talk given by TANG Guocai, consul general, Chinese Consulate in Mumbai, India.  This talk was delivered at Symposium organised by the GIIS, the Guangdong University Thinktank, in association with JaiHind College, Asiaconverge...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-case-for-bullion-banking-in-india Will the government allow bullion banking in India? RN Bhaskar  --  26 December 2019 India has been myopic about so many things.  One of them, tragically, is gold.  It has forgotten to exploit its own mines,  It gave out licences to...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/geography-economics-history-and-culture-heres-why-india-and-china-need-each-other How should India view China? RN Bhaskar - July 2, 2020 At times of war, it is dangerous to talk of peace.  As the poet TS Eliot once remarked (through the lips of Aunt Agatha in A Family Reunion), “In a...
India has big plans and announcements about its INR, but without underlying support RN Bhaskar For the past couple of months there have been reports and conjectures that the Indian rupee (INR) could easily become the global reserve currency.  The answer...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/it-is-time-india-reshaped-its-exim-strategies/1491174 India's EXIM needs restructuring RN Bhaskar March 28, 2019 Within the next few months, India’s policymakers will have to decide how to restructure India’s Exim policies. This will be necessitated by three factors. First, the global economic slowdown is likely to...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/strategy-for-healthier-india-china-trade China and India could together revive the global economy RN Bhaskar  26 March 2020 China has been a savvy investor in India (http://www.asiaconverge.com/2020/03/china-investments-in-india-are-strategic-and-profitable/).  Some claim that China has outsmarted India.  But such cynical views miss the big picture.  China created value...