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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Female workforce India: the biggest growth lever the economy still leaves idle

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India has raised female labour force participation, but the economy still underuses women where productivity gains would be largest - in formal urban work. Childcare, safety, housing and flexible work now matter as much as headline employment policy.

Skill gap in India: why the education-to-employment pipeline still leaks

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India has expanded schooling and higher education, but the bridge to productive work remains weak. Thin vocational pathways, patchy apprenticeships and poor industry matching still turn qualifications into delayed earnings.

India coal dependence: why energy security still runs through coal

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India can expand renewables fast and still need coal for years. The real story is not ideology but grid reliability, storage gaps, industrial costs, and transition design.

Indian Railways finances: the freight-passenger bargain behind modernization

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Freight still funds the system, passengers still travel below cost, and modernization now depends overwhelmingly on the exchequer. This is the real economics of Indian Railways in 2025-26 and beyond.

INR exchange rate: why the rupee falls, rises, and rarely crashes

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The rupee does not usually move because of a single headline. It responds to India's current account, capital flows and reserve buffers, with the RBI stepping in to prevent disorderly overshooting.
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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.