India goes into lock-down to fight COVID-19: Is the cure worse than the disease?
India goes into lock-down to fight COVID-19: Is the cure worse than the disease as desperate migrant workers struggle to get home. Read More
Yan Islam
Revisiting India’s growth slowdown: How bad is it?
YAN ISLAM | Abhijit Banerjee, who, along with Esther Duflo (his partner) and Michael Kremer, won the latest Nobel prize in economics, has… Read More
Reflections on Pakistan’s rural economy in the wake of the government’s agreement with the IMF
YAN ISLAM | I was recently invited by the Pakistan Office of the ILO, based in Islamabad, to support the work of one… Read More
Floating farms of Bangladesh: A home-grown strategy to adapt to climate change
YAN ISLAM | Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to climate change. Flooding regularly affects about 1 million people. One prediction is that by 2050… Read More
The great Indian GDP debate: Has the former Chief Economic Adviser got it right?
YAN ISLAM | Arvind Subramanian, now at Harvard and the Petersen Institute for International Economics, was the former Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) to the… Read More
Lest we forget the post-election reality: ‘Happiness’ in Modi’s India
YAN ISLAM | Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to another landslide victory in the 2019 Indian elections that was… Read More
Lest we forget the post-election reality: ‘per capita recession’ and the Australian economy
YAN ISLAM | ‘I have always believed in miracles’ proclaimed a clearly overjoyed Scott Morrison, as he is poised to continue his Prime Ministership… Read More
India’s employment crisis
YAN ISLAM | The Indian government recently got mired in controversy when it apparently tried to suppress a report from the National Sample Survey… Read More
Is central bank autonomy in India under threat?
YAN ISLAM | Urjit Patel, until very recently the 24th Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), could no longer maintain his customary… Read More
Growth and the Padma Bridge: Has the Bangladesh PM got it right?
YAN ISLAM | In a recent statement, the Bangladesh Prime Minister noted that, once the nation’s biggest infrastructure project, known as the multi-purpose… Read More
