The Future of India
March 10, 2023
Saxena Center Director Ashutosh Varshey and Senior Fellow Arvind Subramanian were panelists during the annual Hauser Symposium on "The Future of India".
Arvind Subramanian
Arvind Subramanian
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Biography
Arvind Subramanian is a Senior Fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and Distinguished Non-Resident fellow at the Center for Global Development. He was previously Professor at Ashoka University, visiting lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School (2018-2020) and Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India between October 2014 and July 2018. Foreign Policy magazine named him as one of the world's top 100 global thinkers in 2011.
Research
The economics of India, international trade and economic growth.
Publications
- India's Export-Led Growth: Exemplar and Exception
- Dynamism With Incommensurate Development: The Distinctive Indian Model
- Validating India's GDP Growth Estimates
- The Hyperglobalization of Trade and Its Future
- Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions over Geography and Integration in Economic Development
- Why Did Financial Globalization Disappoint?
- Aid and Growth: What does the Cross-Country Evidence Really Show?
Teaching
The Indian Economy; India and China
News|Recent News
Amid fears of a crisis, the US begins the debt ceiling battle (comments by Arvind Subramanian)
January 19, 2023 Hindustan Times
Arvind Subramanian comments for Hindustan Times, “If the US breaches the limit, then financial markets panic because trust in the single most trusted borrower in the world — Uncle Sam — is jeopardised. And literally every interest rate in every market in the world is priced off US government bonds (the debt). So, if this market is rattled, the risk is of all global markets being rattled.”
Why India Can’t Replace China (co-authored by Arvind Subramanian)
December 9, 2022 Foreign Affairs
Arvind Subramanian explains for Foreign Affairs why the decline of China may represent a real opportunity, does not ordain an Indian economic boom.
Global cooperation is not necessary to fight climate change (written by Arvind Subramanian)
November 29, 2022 The Daily Star
Senior Fellow Arvind Subramanian wrote an opinion piece for The Daily Star advocating for competitive technological progress as a tool to fight climate change.
Three globalisation shocks could hurt China and help India (co-authored by Arvind Subramanian)
August 20, 2022 The Daily Star
The Daily Star article co-authored by Arvind Subramanian explains how disruptions in the economy will most likely transform the global trading system, rather than shrink it, with the impact varying across the countries.
Globalization shocks could hurt China, help India (co-authored by Arvind Subramanian)
August 13, 2022 The Asset
In this co-authored opinion piece for The Asset, Senior Fellow Arvind Subramanian describes how the 2008 global financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have dimmed China's economic prospects while brightening India's.
Five fateful shifts that will shape the future world economy (written by Arvind Subramanian)
June 16, 2022 The Financial Times
Senior Fellow Arvind Subramanian writes for The Financial Times, "Shocks such as Covid and the Russian invasion of Ukraine command our attention. But it is shifts — that is, major transformations — that will determine the long-run trajectory of the global economy."
Events
Oct 8, 2021
Arvind Subramanian & Raghuram Rajan (Discussant) – Is the Indian Economy Back?
2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Joukowsky Forum (155), 111 Thayer Street
Sep 10, 2021
COVID-19 in South Asia Workshop
10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street