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26 December 2019

Building an India-owned merchant fleet

India needs its own merchant fleet to run parallel with its increasingly strong navy. The geopolitical and geoeconomic compulsions have never been greater. India’s growing imports and exports of crude oil, LPG, and coal are all carried on foreign-owned shipping vessels, depriving the country of revenue and creating a geopolitical imbalance with an increasingly strong Indian navy that is set to play a significant role in the Indo-Pacific

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19 December 2019

The mystery of Aramco’s stock price

The rise in Saudi Aramco’s stock price within two days of its IPO in November 2019, has taken the company’s market value past the $2-trillion mark. This valuation should not be taken at face value for the offering is miniscule, and closely linked to the ruler's prestige rather than stock market fundamentals

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19 December 2019

“India is the sweet spot where AI can flourish”

Professor Ajay Agrawal is one of the world’s leading economists on Artificial Intelligence and the author of - Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence. On December 18 Gateway House co-hosted a lecture by him on Power & Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence