INTER-LINKED: Economic Growth

In the contemporary era, sustainable economic growth is quintessential for any country in determining its success, power and the welfare of its citizens. Largely, economic growth is defined as the change in per capita Gross Domestic Product of an economy over a particular time period. This podcast unpacks the idea of economic growth, its recipe, the factors influencing it and certain problems in its face with Professor Anuradha Saha. Professor Saha is currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at Ashoka University. Her research interests include Macroeconomic Theory, Growth Theory, and Development Economics. Her thesis focused on sectoral growth with emphasis on services sector dynamics. She is currently working on characterizing international trade in services, where some of the features are quite different from that of trade in manufactures.