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April 19, 2024

Greensill Capital

Lex Greensill sues UK government over ‘misuse of private information’

...At one point he had a desk and security pass within the Cabinet Office, according to the Boardman review into Greensill Capital and its ties to government....

March 5, 2024

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Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

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The pursuit of happiness

...These drivers of fulfilment are a far better basis for policy. An equivalent approach is to see the role of government as reducing the causes of unhappiness....

March 22, 2024

ReviewIndian politics & policy

Five books to understand India today

...The Struggle for India’s Soul (2021) by Shashi Tharoor India is replete with accounts by disillusioned liberals of how Hindu nationalism under Modi has changed India and altered its democratic institutions...

April 18, 2024

FT News Briefing podcast13 min listen

Big business bets on Modi

...Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...

April 19, 2024

News in-depthIndian politics & policy

India halts farmers’ march with smoke bombs and drones

...But the resurgence of India’s farmer protests has highlighted the Modi government’s failure to rationalise an agriculture sector that employs nearly half the population in a country where more than 800mn...

February 29, 2024

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Future of the Car

The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive

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The ‘mother of democracy’ is not in good shape

...Preserving political freedoms is in the best interests of Indian growth and prosperity, and of the Modi government’s ambitions to enhance the country’s role as a leading member of the global community....

April 2, 2024

Letter

Letter: What a new temple tells us about a ‘secular’ India

...The government of a secular republic very evidently should not be promoting a particular religion or basing its development on the promotion of that religion....

January 19, 2024

Indian election

India election opens as Narendra Modi seeks third term in power

...“The real question is the strength of the mandate, which will decide how decisive the government will be in pushing ahead not only with its economic reform agenda, but also its more divisive identity-driven...

April 19, 2024

Martin Wolf

The tree of debt must stop growing

...Some economists seem to believe that the demand for a sovereign’s money is infinite: so long as there is some slack in the economy, the government can keep printing....

April 9, 2024

Europe Express

What Bulgaria’s government collapse means for the rest of the EU Premium

...In February the Dutch government accused China of hacking into a military network last year....

March 27, 2024

Paul Killik

Why buying company shares has gone out of fashion

...Another blow for the retail investor community came with the government’s legislation on the rights of nominee holders at the implementation of Crest, an electronic settlement system, in 1996....

April 5, 2024

Letter

Letter: India eyes China’s mantle as Asia’s big economy

...Modi senses the potential for India. The Indo-Pacific is home to more than 64 per cent of the global population and contributes over 60 per cent of global GDP....

April 16, 2024

Global economic growth

US and India stoke hopes of global growth in 2024

...Heading into the meetings the IMF has warned of a decade of disappointing growth and a rising risk of popular discontent as central banks continue to battle against inflation and governments struggle with...

April 14, 2024

Indian election

Businesses bank on Modi election win to ease India’s bottlenecks

...NITI Aayog, the government think-tank, has been given the task of preparing a “vision plan” to make India a $30tn economy by then, compared with an IMF estimate of $4.1tn this year....

April 15, 2024

FT Live

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Market shifts and future growth

The Weekend Essay

The promise and perils of the egg-freezing revolution

...I approached the counter and told the cashier my name. “Oh, India. Yes,” she said, looking slightly concerned for me. “This is quite the order.”...

March 23, 2024

The Big Read

Is India’s BJP the world’s most ruthlessly efficient political party?

...Warning signs for the government persist, including simmering frustration over unemployment, which the Modi government has struggled to contain despite a fast-growing economy from which India’s conglomerates...

April 17, 2024

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Nigeria’s kidnapping racket is a symptom of a failing state

...The discovery of oil did not help, transforming the business of government into divvying up rent, not creating wealth....

March 12, 2024

UK economy

The Bank of England is misusing its fiscal powers

...The Bank introduced the APF under Mervyn King in 2009, with support from the Labour government....

February 29, 2024

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India at the ballot box: what business expects

...The prime minister’s outgoing government is confident enough of victory that it is already discussing an agenda for the first 100 days of his third term....

April 8, 2024

Haiti

Dominican Republic rebuff complicates Haitian leader’s route home

...home via the Dominican Republic....

March 9, 2024

Global InsightMichael Stott

The simple idea behind LatAm’s star economy

...Despite steady improvements under the current government, Transparency International ranks the Dominican Republic 108th out of 180 nations on its Corruption Perceptions Index, slightly worse than Ukraine...

March 18, 2024

FirstFT

FirstFT: Biden urges Israel to show restraint after Iran’s attack

...India has seen a similar pick-up....

April 15, 2024

News in-depthIsrael

Israel’s consulate assault raises stakes in shadow war with Iran

...An Iranian official reiterated that the Islamic republic did not want a “direct conflict with Israel or the US”....

April 2, 2024

Janan Ganesh

The welcome demise of big-government Toryism

...They exaggerated, too, the feasibility of one. A nation’s economic model isn’t the choice of its present government....

January 9, 2024

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