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October 14, 2022

Globalization of Inflation or Monetary Policy: What Explains the Price Rise in India

“Inflation is taxation without legislation”.  Milton Friedman Rising prices or inflation, is an undesirable and unwarranted phenomena. India’s inflationary discourse before and since the onset of the pandemic has been volatile. Shocks from all sides, albeit domestic, demand & supply, […]
June 3, 2019

Venezuelan Crisis and Its Impact on India

By Ayush Kukreja, Large clouds of despair loom over the economically and politically crippled Latin American country of Venezuela. The fifth republic of Bolivarian Venezuela, under former lieutenant governor of the military Hugo Chavez (1998-2012), marked the deep-seated fear of […]
October 1, 2018

Supplyco Economics: Do We Have An Answer To Kerala’s Food Inflation?

Snapshot Forty-four years after the formation of Supplyco, we still do not have an answer to Kerala’s food inflation – the reason why we must introspect if the Supplyco model is the best way to transfer subsidy benefits to the […]
September 24, 2018

Do we have an answer for Kerala’s food inflation?|കേരളത്തിലെ ഭക്ഷ്യവിലപ്പെരുപ്പത്തിന് നമുക്കൊരുത്തരമുണ്ടോ?

The article throws light on the short-sightedness of Supplycos’s objective to control prices of essential commodities The market share of Supplyco is also very low as the volume of sales through Supplyco outlets is very less in comparison to the […]
October 10, 2015

Will the Indian real estate market bubble burst?

  The real estate prices in Indian Metros have soared in several cities in India; some cities have witnessed a ten-fold increase in property prices over the past decade. The period of great moderation in the western world combined with […]
June 10, 2013

Can Inflation Index Bonds replace gold as a safe investment….???

India is the world’s largest consumer of gold, accounting for some 20 percent of the world’s demand. In India gold is historically and culturally tied to the concepts of wealth and prosperity. The demand for gold has been increasing drastically in […]