India-EU Relations: The FTA, CBAM and the Strategic Partnership That Finally Delivered
India and the EU concluded FTA negotiations on 27 January 2026 at the 16th Summit in New Delhi, covering 97 percent of tariff lines…
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India-Israel Relations: Defence Technology, Agriculture and the West Asia Balance
India recognised Israel in 1950 but waited until 1992 for full diplomatic relations. In 2026 the two elevated ties to a Special Strategic Partnership.…
India-UAE Relations: CEPA, Energy Storage, Fintech and the Gulf Pivot
Bilateral trade reached USD 101.25 billion in FY 2025-26, with a target of USD 200 billion by 2032. India-UAE relations have moved from oil…
New Industrial Policy Instruments: PLI, Design Linked Incentive and the Tariff Contradiction
India's industrial policy now runs on production-linked incentives and tariff protection at the same time. Average industrial import tariffs rose from 9.7 percent in…
Industrial Policy in India 1950-1991: From Nehru-Mahalanobis to the Licence-Permit Raj
Industry's share of GDP rose from about 13 to 14 percent in 1950-51 to roughly 24 to 25 percent by the late 1980s. The…
Deregulation and Economic Freedom in India: Why the Next Reform Is a State Subject
With export-led growth constrained by geo-economic fragmentation, India's remaining growth lever is domestic deregulation. Most of the regulation that binds businesses is state and…
Capital Market Issues in India: The Shallow Corporate Bond Market and Its Consequences
India's corporate bond market is about 15 to 18 percent of GDP against roughly 80 percent in South Korea. That single gap explains why…
Gross Domestic Savings in India: Components, Decline and What It Costs Growth
Gross domestic savings is the income a nation retains after final consumption. It has three components with very different behaviour, and the reasons for…
Household Savings in India: The Shift from Financial to Physical Assets
Households supply about 65 percent of India's gross domestic savings. Net financial savings fell to roughly 5.3 percent of GDP in 2022-23, the lowest…
Cropping Pattern in India: Determinants, Shifts and Emerging Trends
Cropping pattern is the spatial and temporal arrangement of crops on a given area. It is shaped less by soil and rainfall than most…
Fertilizer Subsidies in India: Urea Distortion, Nutrient Based Subsidy and the Reform Path
India subsidises urea one way and phosphatic and potassic fertilizers another. That split is the single reason for imbalanced NPK use, degraded soil and…
Crop Diversification in India: Why the Rice-Wheat Lock-In Persists
Diversifying one hectare from cereals to horticulture can raise annual income by around Rs 80,000, yet Indian farmers stay with paddy and wheat. The…