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Puja Mehra

ARTICLES BY PUJA MEHRA

Arvind Panagariya, chairman of the Sixteenth Finance Commission.

What 16th Finance Commission’s thinking on giving higher tax share to states

4 min read . 14 Jun 2025

Today, it seems that a new global trade chapter is being written messily and hastily in which the US is trying to replace the rules-based economic order with one based on crude power. (AP)

Trump’s trade agenda: About US jobs or global supremacy?

4 min read . 19 May 2025

US President Donald Trump, who was unmoved by the equity meltdown over his tariff war, beat a retreat at the first sign of an adverse reaction in the market for US Treasury bonds. (AFP)

Trump tariffs: The global bond market achieved what diplomacy couldn’t

4 min read . 13 Apr 2025

Poonam Gupta has been appointed by the RBI as its new Deputy Governor. (World Bank)

Poonam Gupta: RBI’s new status-quo challenger

3 min read . 03 Apr 2025

US President Donald Trump. (Reuters)

Will India be spared Trump's tariffs? We don't know, says DGFT's Sarangi

4 min read . 28 Mar 2025

Reserve Bank of India governor Sanjay Malhotra. (Reuters)

Why RBI may again aggressively defend the rupee

4 min read . 10 Mar 2025

US President Donald Trump. Photo: Reuters

Trump tariffs: Is the US president doomed to repeat history?

6 min read . 08 Mar 2025

The US has a pronounced trade deficit in this sector that makes for 37.5% of the bilateral trade and a striking 79.3% of India’s overall trade surplus with the US. (AFP)

Prepare to hit the US with tariffs where it hurts: expert body advising the govt

4 min read . 07 Mar 2025

The rupee has lost 3% of its value against the US dollar since October 2024. Photo: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg

Rupee tantrums: The risk and cost of RBI's approach

2 min read . 16 Jan 2025

During the past ten years, changes in repo rates seem to have made little difference to vegetable price volatility.

Debate over excluding food inflation from monetary policy reaches MPC

5 min read . 25 Dec 2024

It appears that in India, the government’s choice has become restricted – perhaps permanently–to bureaucrats. (Reuters)

Five of MPC's six members may soon be new

2 min read . 10 Dec 2024

Today’s problems need a new consensus, and constructing it would require a coherent resolution of many matters—institutional, social and geopolitical.

India needs to shake up its new political-economy consensus

4 min read . 02 Dec 2024

Debroy quit the Niti Aayog in 2017 to take up the role of an economic advisor to the Prime Minister.

Bibek Debroy and the unbearable lightness of being an economist

4 min read . 07 Nov 2024

Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman before presenting the Union Budget for 2024-25 on Tuesday. (ANI)

Opinion: A budget indicative of a government in drift

3 min read . 23 Jul 2024

Transparency often spells trouble for an administration.

Data please: Government figures shrouded in secrecy entail economic risks

4 min read . 11 Jul 2024

The economy needs a structural transformation for moving labour out of unpaid distress work to better-paying productive jobs in factories.

Questions on India's economy that Modi and Gandhi should answer

4 min read . 26 May 2024

From 2009 to 2012, Pranab Mukherjee pushed public sector banks to lend aggressively and loosened the government’s purse strings, taking the fiscal deficit to over 6% of GDP.

The white paper we got wasn’t the one needed urgently today

4 min read . 13 Feb 2024

Garg is comically disdainful and understandably joyless about what landed him in the finance ministry in the first place.

Garg’s memoir is a narrative of dissonance and dissent

4 min read . 17 Oct 2023

Wheat CPI inflation cooled to a shade above 9% by August.

Where has India's record wheat and rice output gone?

4 min read . 18 Sep 2023

Dr Ashok Gulati, noted agricultural economist. (HT)

Hike farmers’ cash transfer: Ashok Gulati

2 min read . 07 Sep 2023