Ajit Ranade
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Ajit Ranade: Rising interest payments on government debt hurt the poor more than others | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. US federal debt has crossed $40 trillion. More significant than the size is the price at which this debt must now be financed. The yield on the 30-year US Treasury bond recently crossed 5.3%, its highest level in nearly two decades. Interest costs are already above $1 trillion a year. This is quite different from the decade after the global financial crisis, when interest rates were exceptionally low. Governments co
India’s Unified Payments Interface is public infrastructure and not just another commercial service | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Unified Payments Interface (UPI) is one of India’s most successful pieces of economic infrastructure. In July, it handled nearly 24 billion transactions worth almost ₹30 trillion. That scale and ubiquity make UPI more than a convenient payments product. It is an essential part of India’s digital public infrastructure (DPI). Hence, the legislative change opening the door to a merchant discount rate, or MDR, deser
Ajit Ranade: Here are five lessons for India from China's successful higher education strategy | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The resignation of India’s education minister after the NEET paper leak protests has triggered a national conversation on educational reform. The immediate issue is exam integrity. But the larger issue is whether India has the institutional capacity to build a higher education system that matches its national ambitions. In a recent article, author and journalist Pallavi Aiyar describes India and China as “nations of
Why India’s steady sovereign bond yields should not be read as a sign that everything is okay | Mint (opens the original)
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This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Last month, the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Financial Stability Report arrived amid a turbulent macroeconomic environment. Oil prices had spiked due to West Asia tensions, the rupee had slipped amid foreign fund withdrawals and RBI’s own inflation forecast had been revised upward. By the textbook, the central bank should have raised interest rates. Instead, its Monetary Policy Committee held the repo rate steady a
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