TFD Economic Research Desk

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TFD Economic Research Desk covers the latest economic trends and developments, delivering in-depth analysis and reporting to help readers navigate the economic landscape, both Indian and global, with clarity and insight.

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AI impact on jobs India: who gains, who gets squeezed, and what to learn now

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AI is redrawing India’s labour market unevenly. Routine white-collar work faces pressure, but demand is rising for domain experts, AI-enabled specialists, and workers who can combine judgement with automation.

Remittances to India: the global salary that props up millions of families

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Remittances to India are often treated as family transfers. They are also an external-sector shock absorber, a migration signal, and a quiet driver of local consumption and aspiration.

India exports 2026: Why Software Can’t Carry Everything Forever

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India's export machine looks strong, but the balance is awkward. Services are cushioning the external account while goods still need deeper scale, value addition and resilience.

Manufacturing in India: Powerhouse in the Making, or Still Mostly an Assembly Bet?

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Manufacturing in India has moved beyond speeches. Output, electronics exports and PLI-backed investment are rising fast. But the deeper question is whether India is capturing components, technology, and domestic value, or remaining strongest at final assembly.

RBI Repo Rate Impact: Why Your EMI Moves Fast, Your FD Slower, and Your Rent Last of All

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RBI repo rate impact rarely travels in one straight line: borrowers feel it first, savers absorb it later, and renters learn that city economics often outruns policy headlines.
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Auditor Independence Gets a Cooling-Off Clause: MCA’s Cross-Selling Squeeze on the Big Four

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MCA’s proposed auditor independence reform would extend non-audit service restrictions for three years after audit tenure ends, targeting the cross-selling economics that have long strengthened large multidisciplinary networks.

Audit Quality Maturity Model and the Big Four Question Returns

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ICAI has widened the mandatory reach of the Audit Quality Maturity Model to group audits and other public-interest engagements. The move sharpens India's audit-quality architecture, but it also reopens the harder question of whether domestic firms can build credible scale against the Big Four.

NFRA inspection reports put Big Four-linked audit networks on notice

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NFRA’s March 2026 inspection reports have turned audit quality into the central governance story around India’s Big Four-linked audit networks, with independence, group controls and evidence quality all under pressure.

IBC Amendment Act 2026 Moves Insolvency Out of the Waiting Room

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The IBC Amendment Act 2026 is India’s clearest attempt yet to cut insolvency delays where they actually begin—at admission, in liquidation and in the messy afterlife of resolution-plan implementation.