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'PHULE' MOVIE REVIEW An excellent movie about Jyotirao Phule and Savitribai Phule - the great social reformers who uplifted lower-ca...

In 2016, two of Donald Trump's economic advisers wrote a paper titled 'Scoring the Trump Economic Plan'. They were Peter Navarro...

The graph shows the trade-to-GDP ratio* versus the logarithm of GDP for 184 countries**. It shows a slight decreasing relationship between t...

THE EFFECT OF TRADE ON GROWTH Total trade (exports + imports) increases growth. Empirical research has proved this conclusively. But there i...

WHY TRADE IS GOOD (BOTH EXPORTS AND IMPORTS) GDP is given by the basic equation: Y = C + I + G + X - M or Y = C + I + G + NX where NX = X - ...

INDIAN ECONOMY: OCT-DEC 2024 The urban employment data has just come out for Oct-Dec 2024. I look at 3 indicators of employment: 1. Worker P...

INDIA BUDGET 2025-26: ANALYSIS # Fiscal deficit is decreasing from 4.8% of GDP (2024-25) to 4.4% (2025-26) - a decrease of 0.4% points. This...