The super rich around the world are putting big money behind research that will make them live longer and healthier, and allow them to continue shaping the destinies of organisations and countries

Despite the number of studies showing more women joining the workplace is good both for the bottom lines of corporations as well as for the country's economy as a whole, the overall representation of women in organisations has been inching up at a snail's pace, bar in a few enlightened firms

Why getting consumption growth back on track will be more difficult than simply reducing taxes or interest rates

Debt is not a bad thing when used judiciously to build assets and grow a business. But if the cost of funds become higher than the value it is creating, it becomes a problem

Government, corporates and even households are deep in debt. In a slowing economy this could only escalate

The government cannot stop or slow down spending - the economy is already losing steam with exports, private consumption and private sector investment slowing down

Despite the disruptions and problems, some SMEs have managed to perform exceptionally well in the past few years, and we take a look at them in this issue

Siddhartha is an extreme example of how using debt to fund expansions can undo you

The credit crisis is bothering economists, bankers, businessmen, ministers and bureaucrats alike

The short-term idea the government had come up with just before the election was to directly give Rs 6,000 to each land-owning farmer in three tranches in a year

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharamans Budget is long on promises but short on ideas about fulfilling them

Despite the list of achievements of Modi 1.0 that Sitharaman talked about, and the new targets she laid out - in terms of piped water to rural households, a common power grid etc - there was actually no tough decision or new idea that the Finance Minister announced

The focus of the chapters in the Economic Survey 2019 is interesting, both for what they talk about and also for what they omit to discuss

Union Budget 2019: Even as we head for the first Budget of Prime Minister Modi's second term, news is coming out that the government is planning to help Air India and telecom PSU siblings, BSNL and MTNL, raise massive debt in order to keep them running

The government should use its massive mandate to find long-term solutions to the economy's structural problems

Our special issue on start-ups looks at all the trends worth noting in the ecosystem today

LOTS Wholesale Solutions is a late entrant to India's cash-and-carry market, having started in January 2017, years after formidable rivals such as Metro and Walmart entered the country. It has been very aggressive though - starting its first three stores within seven months and chalking out a plan to open 15 stores within three years. A subsidiary of Siam Makro, the cash-and-carry player with a long history in Thailand, it is part of the CP (Charoen Pokphand) group. Tanit Chearavanont, Managing Director, LOTS, responsible for cracking the Indian retail market, speaks to Business Today's Prosenjit Datta about how he plans to go about it. Edited excerpts

The RBI and finance ministry need to work together to fix the problem properly

In India, quite a few high yield bonds were not considered particularly risky - the paper was largely issued by big, reputed brand names, and were often initially graded with triple A or equivalent credit ratings

It is increasingly becoming clear that the idea of debt being safer than equity was illusory at best