July 2025 – Anil S Mehta

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July 19, 2025

Economics Finance Philosophy Policy Technology

The Reinvention of a Titan: How India’s Paint Giants Are Fighting to Stay Relevant

This post is a continuation of “The Great Indian Paint-Off: Conglomerates vs. Incumbents” For decades, the…

July 11, 2025

Economics Finance Policy

Globalization and the Ladder of Development: Pushed to the Top or Held at the Bottom? (Paper Summary)

This is a narrative summary of the paper by economists from MIT titled “Globalization and the…

July 7, 2025

Economics Finance

The Great Indian Paint-Off: Conglomerates vs. the Incumbents

For decades, India’s ₹80,000-crore paint industry was a textbook example of stable oligopoly—few players, high…