Gita Gopinath

'Unfortunately, states are not helping': Gita Gopinath praises Centre for fiscal discipline

Dec 18, 2025, 04:43 PM IST

India is gaining credibility on the global stage due to the Union government’s efforts to stick to fiscal targets, says Gita Gopinath

India hasn't really had a big demographic dividend: Gita Gopinath flags key bottlenecks

Dec 18, 2025, 03:24 PM IST

Gita Gopinath, who is currently serving as a professor of Economics at Harvard University, highlighted the recent labour reforms as a step in the right direction

Fix land acquisition, cut bureaucracy: Gita Gopinath's prescription for India to become industrial power

Dec 18, 2025, 02:31 PM IST

One big hurdle for India to be a big industrial power is land acquisition, which remains very complicated, says Gita Gopinath

'Gold is flashing a warning signal': Sridhar Vembu says debt, leverage could spark 2008-style crash

Oct 18, 2025, 09:09 AM IST

Gita Gopinath recently wrote that global exposure to U.S. equities is at record highs, and that a sharp correction now would inflict more severe global damage than even the dot‑com crash.

‘Overall, score card is negative’: Gita Gopinath on what US tariffs have accomplished so far

Oct 07, 2025, 11:05 AM IST

Like Gita Gopinath, many experts and critics have called out Trump’s policies, highlighting that increased tariffs is not the answer.

'Don't see any major changes': Gita Gopinath explains why US Dollar’s dominance isn’t fading anytime soon

Sep 13, 2025, 09:32 PM IST

The debate around the greenback’s future is not new. Investors have long worried about America’s ballooning debt, trade tariffs, and more recently, the pandemic’s fiscal fallout. Yet, as Gopinath pointed out, a currency’s importance depends far less on trade volume than many assume.

Gita Gopinath to leave IMF by August end: What’s behind her sudden Harvard return?

Jul 22, 2025, 06:59 AM IST

Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva praised Gopinath as an “exceptional intellectual leader” who helped steer the IMF through the pandemic and the global economic fallout of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Emerging markets face ‘greater challenge’ from Trump tariffs than Covid: IMF’s Gita Gopinath

Jun 05, 2025, 01:15 PM IST

The IMF has flagged the return of Trump's trade war as a sharper threat to emerging economies than Covid-19. Tariffs are creating asymmetric shocks, pushing central banks into increasingly difficult decisions.

'Tax cuts won't...': Ex-CEA Arvind Subramanian says economic slowdown isn’t temporary, it's structural

Jan 30, 2025, 03:16 PM IST

Subramanian dismissed the idea that fiscal interventions like tax cuts can stimulate demand, arguing that the real issue is weak employment, investment, and income growth.

'Modi govt has been good on infra, but...': Raghuram Rajan flags biggest challenge for Indian economy

Jan 21, 2025, 05:36 PM IST

Raghuram Rajan pointed out that infrastructure alone cannot drive sustained economic growth, stressing that consumption, once a key growth driver, is now faltering

'India's growth slowdown is temporary, to achieve 6.5% growth this fiscal': Gita Gopinath at WEF Davos 2025

Jan 21, 2025, 04:02 PM IST

India's economic growth slowed to near two-year low of 5.4 per cent in the July-September quarter due to poor performance of manufacturing and mining sectors as well as weak consumption.