Category: International

The visit by the US president, the fifth successive (including two visits by Barack Obama) in last twenty years contrasts with only three visits by US president during 1950-1999. Even…

Shipping industry in India continues to face challenging times with seven of the 13 listed companies reporting losses as per the latest financials. The stress seems to have worsened with…

It was a reasonable yet an uncertain year for the global economy expected to end 2018 with growth rate of 3.7% as per an IMF report, almost the same as…

Global trade rebounded in 2017 growing at 4.5% in volume terms much better than 1.8% witnessed in 2016 and strongest in six years. That probably gives a reason to attempt…

The process of withdrawal of United Kingdom from European Union has gained momentum with release of draft agreement about a week back. As per the current legal statute, UK would…

The world economy is expected to witness a reasonable improvement in growth at 3.5% in 2017 against 3.1% in 2016 as per the IMF report released this week. More importantly,…

The changes in the H-1B visa rules marks the culmination of last few months of intense action and debate on the issue. The issue has just got even more polarised this…

The swearing-in speech of Donald Trump and his initial decisions put a big question mark on the future of cooperation in the world economy. The talks on protecting US jobs,…

The award of Nobel Prize to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom for economic science brings to light the concept of ‘Contract Theory’, hardly heard so far, let alone be understood..!…

The IMF projects a 0.2% downward revision for the world growth in 2016, which stands at 3.2% now. Almost all the major economies have witnessed a downward revision, except China for…