October 23, 2025 8:46 am
The financialisation of the global economy in the 1970s gave a significant impetus to globalisation. Paradoxically, this very impetus has also contributed to a growing backlash against it over the last decade, triggering debates whether the post-Cold War world is becoming a site of sovereign nationalism. How did this reversal unfold?
October 01, 2025 12:51 pm
In its pursuit of promoting uniform and standardised consumption patterns across the world, globalisation paves the way for markets to turn citizens into consumers by linking consumption with identity, ownership, and happiness. But is globalisation just about consumerism?
April 28, 2025 10:38 pm
The focus should now be on reforms to improve the ease of doing business and reduce compliance burdens. These would pay off when the tide turns again in favour of globalisation
April 09, 2025 1:43 pm
US President Donald Trump’s tariffs fuel uncertainty, disrupt international trade, and unsettle the very foundations of globalisation. But what exactly is globalisation and how has it evolved into the force it is today?
August 08, 2023 6:31 pm
Muscular industrial policy is the latest among a slew of policy errors since the global financial crisis
April 11, 2023 9:47 am
Sitharaman said India's initiative is working out well in pursuing with countries and agreeing to have Free Trade Agreements (FTA) with them.
December 29, 2022 1:58 pm
Two wars are raging in 2022, which have upended the assumption of “doux commerce”. We take a look at how the world got here.
August 15, 2022 8:51 am
Kiran Mazumdar Shaw writes: By 2047 India could become a knowledge economy powered by cutting-edge research. Inclusivity and increasing participation of women hold the key
March 23, 2022 3:15 pm
The pandemic and President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine have brought into sharp relief the uncertainty of the existing economic order.
June 23, 2021 6:00 pm
The collapse of the world as we know it is fast-approaching and governments must urgently create a collective manifesto for the ‘environment state’.




