Piecing together disparate data for economic and market insights
This appeared in the Indian Express on 12 October 2026 (link) For India, the opportunity is not simply to adopt AI. It is to move from isolated applications to economy-wide productivity gains. India’s experience with digital public infrastructure shows how technology, institutions, and market incentives can combine to reduce costs, broaden access, and create platforms … Read more
Ageing populations are likely to slow capital formation in North Asia, hurting global growth Neelkanth Mishra | Published in the Business Standard on February 06, 2023 (link) In Tessellatum in the last three months, we have discussed three of the major implications of Asia’s ageing: That demographic shift in 10 major Asian economies (the A-10: … Read more
Commercialisation of leisure could be the solution to many economic problems Neelkanth MishraLast Updated at August 2, 2021 23:16 IST This appeared in the Business Standard on August 3, 2021 (link). In 1930, the great economist J M Keynes wrote in his essay “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren” that in a hundred years, the average … Read more
The provisional data from the livestock census shows improving productivity and geographical spreadNeelkanth Mishra | Last Updated at August 23, 2019 11:45 IST (This was published in the Business Standard: link) The government, once every five years or so, conducts a livestock census, counting all domesticated animals. The 20th livestock census was conducted last year … Read more
The collapse in data prices hurts the telecom industry, but is transformative for the economy, adding 5% to GDPNeelkanth Mishra | Last Updated at June 6, 2018 05:54 IST (This was published in the Business Standard: link) As a proportion of per capita income, data on Indian mobile networks has gone from being the most … Read more