Good news: The Rich are spending

Data shows India’s top 10% in brisk consumption mode. Trend will likely hold post-festivals Neelkanth Mishra | Oct 19, 2021, 19:14 IST This appeared in the Times of India on October 20, 2021 (link). Our mobility-based estimate of GDP suggests the rate of output last fortnight was where it would have been had there been … Read more

High Speed Rail: A necessary step forward

A frequent criticism has been whether the funds being used for HSR would not have been better used in improving safety and expanding Neelkanth Mishra | Last Updated at September 13, 2017 23:50 IST (This was published in the Business Standard: link) A decade after Indian Railways first proposed High Speed Rail (HSR) routes, the … Read more