A decade after the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), development is facing serious headwinds – including what UN officials describe as a “silent crisis” of surging debt service…
R. Suryamurthy As India enters a critical phase with several assembly elections on the horizon, state governments are ramping up their social welfare spending, projected to reach around 2% of…
R. Suryamurthy / NEW DELHI Government will conduct its first comprehensive nationwide household income survey in 2026, aiming to bridge a significant data gap and better understand economic shifts over…
ANDALIB AKHTER Every single day, millions of migrants across the world send a quiet yet powerful message back home—one not made of words, but of money. But this money is…
Sri Lanka is confident of receiving the next tranche of the IMF’s Extended Fund Facility. Speaking exclusively to AIR special correspondent after participating in the International Day of Yoga programme…
Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Nirmala Sitharaman, on Friday released the fifth edition of the National Time Release Study (NTRS) during the CBIC Conclave held in the national…
R. Suryamurthy The world’s geopolitical fault lines are shifting yet again—this time with potentially explosive consequences. As the smoke of the Russia-Ukraine war continues to cloud global stability, a new…
India’s foreign exchange reserves rose by more than 2.2 billion dollars, reaching over 698 billion dollars in the week ending 13th June. According to the Weekly Statistical Supplement released by…
By R. Suryamurthy India continued to lead as South Asia’s top destination for foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2024, even as overall FDI inflows into developing Asia slipped by 3%,…
By R. Suryamurty Foreign direct investment (FDI) into developing nations plummeted to a near two-decade low in 2023, the World Bank reported on Monday, citing escalating trade barriers and tightening…
