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What a US recession would mean for India

by admin|02 July 202202 July 2022|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer July 2, 2022 EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. Over the past few weeks, talk of an ‘induced’ recession in the US has been gaining ground. What it means is that,...

Audio podcast: Startup layoffs in a weak job market are worrying

by admin|21 May 202221 May 2022|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer May 21, 2022 Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. India’s much-talked-about startups have begun laying off a worryingly large number of people. Media reports quoted recruiters as saying that another 5,000 employees would...

Audio podcast: 7 things the finance minister didn’t tell you about Budget 2021

by admin|05 February 202124 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer February 5, 2021 PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. So much was expected from the Union Budget that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented on February 1, 2021. India needs an economic...

Audio podcast: What to expect from Budget 2021

by admin|08 January 202124 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer January 9, 2021 EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. Few Budgets would have been as critical as the one Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present on February 1, 2021. India...

Audio podcast: India’s first ever ‘technical recession’

by admin|30 November 202024 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer November 30, 2020 PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. I am Ashraf Engineer. India’s economy contracted 7.5% between July and September 2020, coming on the back of a 23.9% contraction in the previous quarter. This...

Audio podcast: Unemployment pandemic could be worse than COVID-19

by admin|07 September 202024 May 2021|All Indians Matter

Podcast transcript Hello and welcome to All Indians Matter. As the economy contracts, India’s job crisis expands. As news that the Indian GDP had contracted 23.9% rolled in, it was inevitable that there would be bad news on the jobs...

Modi’s ineptness has left the economy in tatters

by admin|02 September 202002 September 2020|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer September 3, 2020 Narendra Modi rode to power in 2014 claiming he would fix the economy – that wasn’t really broken in the first place – and unleash a wave of prosperity. He spoke often about providing jobs...

Double whammy for India: coronavirus and the slowdown

by admin|18 March 202018 March 2020|All Indians Matter

Ashraf Engineer March 19, 2020 Slowing growth, diminished cash flows, a seemingly unending banking crisis, and now the coronavirus… it’s no wonder the ‘R’ word is no longer being mentioned in hushed whispers. Even until the beginning of 2019, though...