Best of BS Opinion: Economic slowdown, US-China trade war, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces for the day

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Current affairs: India’s economic growth, or lack thereof, is attracting global attention with IMF’s new managing director Kristalina Georgieva singling out in her maiden speech on Wednesday India (and Brazil) as countries in which the effect of the global slowdown is more pronounced. On Thursday Moody’s forecast the economy to grow at 5.8 per cent this fiscal, suggesting the India’s government has scored several own goals. India, ever the high-potential low-performing economy, has seen its governments score own goals of various kinds, and these are the focus of the opinion writers today. Kanika Datta sums up the views

Several economists and commentators have argued for increasing public expenditure to address the current growth slowdown.

Rathin Roy explains why the diagnosis of a cyclical downturn and the “obvious textbook prescription” of deficit financing are...read more

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