Roshan Kishore

New Delhi

Data and Political Economy Editor at Hindustan Times

Data & Political Economy Editor @htTweets. Run Number Theory. My weekly column is called Terms of Trade. Tweets & likes don't represent employer

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Articles

What next for G7? | Number Theory

1 week ago | hindustantimes.com | Sreedev Krishnakumar |Roshan Kishore

What next for G7? | Number Theory Jun 16, 2025 09:13 AM IST . In current dollar terms, the G7 countries’ share in global GDP in 2025 is expected to be about 45%. This number used to be more than 60% until two decades ago and was more than two-thirds for a decade beginning in the mid-1980s. A break-up of GDP shares by US and non-US members of the G7 and the US shows that the group’s loss in global GDP share is primarily a reflection of the loss of economic prowess of the non-US members.
Terms of Trade: Economic dogma won’t do the world any good

2 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Roshan Kishore

2025 is going to be the worst year for global GDP growth since 2008 barring the recessions of 2008 and 2020, the World Bank’s latest estimates say. The Bank has also said that per capita income convergence between the global south (EDMEs in Bank’s technical parlance) and the advanced economies has almost stalled if one were to take out India and China.
Good, bad and ugly of world economy | Number Theory

2 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Roshan Kishore

Good, bad and ugly of world economy | Number Theory Jun 12, 2025 09:47 AM IST . The World Bank released its flagship Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report on Tuesday. It shows that India will continue to be the fastest growing major economy in the world. This is pretty much the only good news about the economy from India’s perspective in the report which raises several red flags about the prospects of the global economy. Here are three charts which summarise key findings from the report.
TN, Kerala and West Bengal: The trinity that still eludes the BJP | Number Theory

2 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Roshan Kishore |Nishant Ranjan

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Can Chirag Paswan reinvent the LJP in its 25th year? | Number Theory

2 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Roshan Kishore |Nishant Ranjan

Can Chirag Paswan reinvent the LJP in its 25th year? | Number Theory Jun 10, 2025 09:00 AM IST . The 2020 Bihar assembly elections were the first the Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) fought under the leadership of Chirag Paswan.
What RBI’s steep rate-cut signals

3 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Roshan Kishore |Auhona Mukherjee

Repo rate is now at a three-year lowAfter Friday’s decision, the repo rate now stands at 5.5%, the lowest it has been since August 2022 when it was at 5.4%. The current monetary easing cycle, which began with a 25-basis point cut in February 2025, has now cumulatively administered a 100-basis point rate cut.
RBI slashes policy rate by 50 bps to accelerate growth

3 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Roshan Kishore

Singles would have done the job, but the Reserve Bank of India decided to hit a six while chasing its monetary easing target . By announcing a higher-than-expected policy rate cut of 50 basis points to 5.5% along with a percentage point reduction in the Cash Reserve Ratio (to be implemented in a staggered manner) it has thrown the proverbial kitchen sink at the growth challenge. There are now various possible upsides to domestic growth.
HT Syndication: What RBI's steep rate-cut signals

3 weeks ago | htsyndication.com | Roshan Kishore |Auhona Mukherjee

New Delhi, June 7 -- The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) surprised markets by frontloading its monetary easing with a 50-basis point rather than the consensus 25-basis point repo rate cut on Friday. One basis point is one hundredth of a percentage point. By changing the policy stance from accommodative to neutral, it has also sent a signal that there could be no more rate cuts in the near-term. What explains these decisions by the central bank? What do they mean for the Indian economy?
Terms of Trade: Are universities as radical as they were 50 years ago?

3 weeks ago | hindustantimes.com | Roshan Kishore

This column was written on a day which marks 50 years of Jaiprakash Narayan’s call for Sampoorn Kranti (total revolution) in Patna (June 5). While JP’s clarion call in 1975 was targeted at politics at large, students played a big role in the agitation which would eventually force Indira Gandhi to declare the Emergency. The JP movement prepared ground for the Congress losing power in India two years later and changed Indian politics forever.
HT Syndication: Terms of Trade: Are universities as radical as they were 50 years ago?

3 weeks ago | htsyndication.com | Roshan Kishore

Posted On: 2025-06-06 Posted By: Roshan Kishore Health & Lifestyle Education Employment Politics Cities Real Estate & Construction International Hindustan Times India, June 6 -- This column was written on a day which marks 50 years of Jaiprakash Narayan's call for Sampoorn Kranti (total revolution) in Patna (June 5). While JP's clarion call in 1975 was targeted at politics at large, students played a big role in the agitation which would eventually force Indira Gandhi to declare the...