Fluid geopolitics, fracturing globalisation, rising protectionism, weaponisation of finance and trade are generating unprecedented headwinds to global economic growth.
The obvious question is whether India can survive and more importantly, thrive in such a world? What will it take?
Especially since India has set itself an audacious ambition to become a developed economy by 2047.
To grow its per capita income nearly seven-fold to $18,000 in the next 22 years.
To answer all this and more, StratNewsGlobal.Tech spoke to Montek Singh Ahluwalia on Capital Calculus. He is an economist and someone who has served in various capacities in government, including as finance secretary and deputy chairman of the erstwhile Planning Commission and one of the key architects of India’s economic reforms.
Anil Padmanabhan has been a journalist for the last 36 years. He has worked in various capacities in several publications including Afternoon Despatch & Courier, Press Trust of India, Business Standard, Mint and was based in New York for India Today. He was a Nieman Fellow in 2001. He tweets at @capitalcalculus.