#BTDavos2026 LIVE | Can India Become A $7 Tn Economy By 2030? Cornell’s Eswar Prasad Weighs In

At BT Davos 2026, Eswar Prasad, Professor at Cornell University, joins Rajdeep Sardesai, Consulting Editor, India Today TV, for a deep dive into the global macroeconomic landscape and its implications for India. Prasad discusses de-globalisation, trade fragmentation, tariffs, and their impact on India’s growth prospects, along with the likelihood of a US–India trade deal and progress on other FTAs. The conversation examines India’s macro outlook for FY26 and FY27, fiscal and monetary challenges, the RBI’s policy response, China’s structural slowdown, capital flows to emerging markets, and whether India can realistically become a $7 trillion economy by 2030.