Articles by Rajeev Mantri
India is charting an independent course
Many nations embarked on a fiscal splurge during Covid-19, leading to persistent inflation. India took a ‘wait, watch and then respond’ plan. The same strategy was visible in procuring oil after the Ukraine war broke out. This India-first policy-making is now paying off
Updated on Sep 18, 2022 08:11 PM IST
GST: A structural reform towards a unified market
Five years since its roll-out, GST has created a united nationwide market. The next five years should be focused on deeper formalisation, removing credit extension asymmetries, and becoming a model for constructive cooperation
Published on Jul 01, 2022 08:07 PM IST
How Modi restored the credibility of Indian capitalism
Where the credibility of capitalism has been undermined in the US, its credibility has been burnished in India due to measures such as the insolvency and bankruptcy code (IBC)
Updated on Sep 15, 2021 06:13 PM IST
Rajeev Mantri
Excerpt: A New Idea of India by Harsh Madhusudan and Rajeev Mantri
In this exclusive first excerpt from their new book, Harsh Madhusudan and Rajeev Mantri look at the vexatious matter of saving secularism from the secularists
Updated on Sep 18, 2020 08:26 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Harsh Madhusudan and Rajeev Mantri
Higher taxes on the super rich is not a sound idea
The current policy will push India’s best talent offshore, affecting the critical finance and technology sectors
Published on Aug 13, 2019 07:33 PM IST
Rajeev Mantri
Modi deserves a second term based on his economic record
Formalisation, financialisation and digitisation engineered by the Modi government have set up India for higher sustainable growth and a fiscal boom
Updated on Apr 18, 2019 08:00 PM IST
Rajeev Mantri
Liberal economy requires a strong but limited State
By strengthening of the foundations of the Indian state, the Modi government has set the stage for sustained economic growth
Updated on Mar 20, 2019 08:21 PM IST
Rajeev Mantri
EWS quota: Narendra Modi’s move to curb the ills of identity politics
India has reiterated the principle that economic backwardness in and of itself is a sufficient criterion for government-mandated affirmative action; it is not social identity alone that determines welfare need.
Published on Feb 11, 2019 07:31 AM IST
Rajeev Mantri and Harsh Gupta