Raghuram Rajan

Raghuram Rajan and Rohit Lamba are wrong. India should not give up on manufacturing

April 16, 2025 3:32 pm

Developing manufacturing is the best approach for super-populous economies like India and China to survive, grow and thrive on the global stage

Manmohan Singh was a rare leader who listened, even to criticism

December 28, 2024 9:39 pm

His approach was supremely effective in creating the space for an exchange of views. He did not take criticism as a sign of hostility. How different our country would be if more leaders imbibed this spirit.

If it is business as usual, Viksit Bharat by 2047 will not happen: Raghuram Rajan

December 23, 2024 10:20 pm

The former RBI Governor spoke about a wide variety of topics ranging from inflation to GDP growth to the impact of possible global trade war under President-elect Donald Trump’s second term.

Engineer's Day 2024: Aditya Vikram Birla, Nadir Burjorji Godrej and more -- Check list of Indians who graduated from MIT

September 16, 2024 9:13 am

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States is one of the most hailed engineering institutes in the world, and the institute has helped many Indians achieve their dreams.

'There is a young India that has a Virat Kohli mentality': Ex-RBI governor Raghuram Rajan

April 18, 2024 8:06 am

Responding to a question, Rajan said a lot of Indian innovators now are going to Singapore or to Silicon Valley to set up because they find access to the final markets much easier there

Greatest mistake India can make is to believe hype around its growth: Raghuram Rajan

March 27, 2024 1:40 pm

In an interview with Bloomberg, he added that the country needs to improve its structural problems, including poor education and skills of the workforce, to meet its true potential. The new government sworn in after the 2024 general elections, as per Rajan, must prioritise fixing these pending issues.

Raghuram Rajan at Idea Exchange: ‘To turn back on democracy, when ideas are the future currency, is just the most blind thing to do’

December 18, 2023 7:45 am

Raghuram Rajan and Rohit Lamba have just come out with a book titled Breaking the Mould : Reimagining India's Economic Future (Penguin). Rajan is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at Chicago Booth.

India will remain lower middle economy by 2047 if growth rate is not over 6%: Raghuram Rajan

December 16, 2023 11:05 pm

Speaking at a programme in Hyderabad, the economist said if the country does not grow faster, it will grow older (demographically) before it gets richer, which means there is the burden of an aging population to deal with also at that point.

Chandrasekhar rebuts Raghuram Rajan's criticism on PLI; calls it manipulative, misleading

June 15, 2023 9:16 pm

The PLI scheme for mobile phones extends an incentive of 4 to 6 per cent on incremental sales (over the base year) of mobile phones that are manufactured in India to eligible companies, for a period of five years.

Why Raghuram Rajan view about India going back to ‘Hindu’ rate of growth is problematic

March 09, 2023 10:23 pm

There is little evidence to support statements implying that the economy is stagnant. In fact, the opposite is true

RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan delivers first Ramnath Goenka Lecture

March 16, 2016 12:59 pm

RBI Governor Dr. Raghuram Rajan delivered his first Ramanth Goenka Memorial lecture in New Delhi on Saturday (March 12).

Today in pics: RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan addresses press conference

August 05, 2014 4:35 pm

The Reserve Bank on Tuesday kept key policy rate unchanged, giving no respite either to borrowers or India Inc.

Raghuram Rajan announces RBI monetary policy

January 28, 2014 6:35 pm

Reserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan today said the 25 basis point repo rate hike will help rein in consumer price rise.

RBI Policy: Raghuram Rajan On Stressed Assets & Transmission Of Interest Rates

June 07, 2016 4:43 pm

Raghuram Rajan Apologises For The ' One Eyed Man' Comment

April 21, 2016 1:33 am

Q&A With RBI Governor Dr Raghuram Rajan At RNG Lecture

March 20, 2016 2:48 pm

Raghuram Rajan says banks will be restored back to health

February 12, 2016 4:56 am

Mumbai/New Delhi, Feb 12 (ANI): Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan said that efforts of the federal bank and the government to clean up banks' balance sheets would be successful and warned analysts against "scare-mongering"about the level of stressed assets in the sector. India's banks are struggling under $100 billion of stressed loans, choking the financial system at a time when the economy needs fresh investment to galvanise growth. Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha said the government, while working closely with RBI, was supporting the banks fully in terms of both capital as well as necessary policy measures. He also said that they have gone through and done the asset quality review and have identified the full extent of the problem.