Sudip Bandyopadhyay’s Blog

As a recent World Bank report makes clear, hard times accentuate the importance of kith and kin. Nowhere is this more true than in developing countries, where automatic stabilisers are weak and vulnerability is high. Support from friends and family abroad is more constant than fragile states and footloose businesses.  In the boom years, development [...]

The world has changed. After years of benign economic conditions, the four horsemen of financial apocalypse – credit crunch, recession, volatility and uncertainty – are blazing a trail across the horizon. Executives must now reassess their organisation’s agenda and communicate it clearly. If history is a guide, most will frame the current conditions as a [...]

Financial crisis causes lot of damage, and ill-conceived post-crisis measures, no matter how well-intended, can only magnify their effects. Examples abound.  For instance, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, a US law that erected trade barriers, is widely regarded as having added considerable strain to the world economy after the 1929 stock market crash.  However, [...]