Arvind Subramanian

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.

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?

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.”

Nirmala Sitharaman at the Bombay Stock Exchange

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."

India’s Stalled Rise (coauthored by Arvind Subramanian)

December 15, 2021 Foreign Affairs

Arvind Subramanian coauthored this article with Josh Felman on India's performance and prospects. The piece summarizes Subramanian's recent presentation at the Watson Institute, which can be found here.

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