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2025 Index of Economic Freedom: Top 10 'economically free' countries worldwide, and where does India rank?

September 30, 2025 12:08 pm

Top 10 Countries in the 2025 Index of Economic Freedom: India ranks low globally at 128th (and 26th regionally) with a 2025 score of 53.0, reflecting a marginal improvement of 0.1.

Top 10 largest economies in the world (2025): India remains fastest-growing — find out its global rank

May 26, 2025 2:17 pm

World GDP Ranking 2025, Largest Global Economies List: Presently positioned as the fourth-largest economy globally, overtaking Japan, the IMF forecasts India to be the fastest-growing major economy over the next two years.

Top 10 most innovative global economies in 2024: Where does India stand?

January 08, 2025 1:14 pm

Global Innovation Index 2024: India has risen significantly in the Global Innovation Index (GII) rankings, rising from 81st in 2015 to 39th in 2024.

Top 10 largest economies in the world in 2024

August 29, 2024 3:01 pm

10 Largest Global Economies in 2024: India rose to the 5th position among the top 10 largest economies in the world in 2024. 

Virgin Orbit bankruptcy casts shadow over Japan's space dreams

April 07, 2023 2:47 pm

Oita prefecture, home to Japan's largest number of hot springs, partnered with Virgin Orbit in 2020 to create its first Asian spaceport at Oita Airport using a Boeing 747 for horizontal rocket launches.

World stocks dither, bonds steady as recession worries weigh

April 06, 2023 4:33 pm

Following the US Federal Reserve's most aggressive cycle of interest rate hikes in decades, to battle stubbornly high inflation, traders are now positioning for the central bank to turn much more dovish.

ADB forecasts China, India to power strong growth in 2023

April 04, 2023 11:42 am

The ADB forecasts that China's economy will grow 5% this year while India's economy is expected to grow 6.4% this year.

P Chidambaram writes: Pivot to the bottom 50 per cent

March 05, 2023 11:23 am

There is talk of India becoming a USD 5 trillion economy but, in my view, that is a meaningless goal post. Even if the Indian economy crawled, it will reach that milestone some day. (A bicycle will also take the rider from Delhi to Agra, as will a Rolls Royce.) These are, in economic terms, irrelevant.

What is ‘friendshoring’?

November 19, 2022 5:50 pm

The term is shorthand for the practice of relocating supply chains to countries where the risk of disruption from political chaos is low.

Ukraine war and pandemic force nations to retreat from globalisation

March 23, 2022 3:15 pm

The pandemic and President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine have brought into sharp relief the uncertainty of the existing economic order.

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