Shankkar Aiyar is an Indian
political economy
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analyst, author, and columnist. He is currently a visiting fellow at the
IDFC Institute where he focuses on economics and public policy. He has been the Wolfson Cheving Fellow at
Cambridge University
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where he specialized in the lifecycles of
emerging market
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s.
Aiyar's news articles in 1991, about the Indian government's pledging of its gold reserves internationally, and its subsequent plans to ship bullion outside the country, is believed to be one of the contributing factors to drawing international and Indian attention to India's impending Balance of Payments
economic crisis
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, and subsequently accelerating efforts toward the
1991 Economic Liberalization of India.
Aiyar is a contributor to ''
The New Indian Express
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'', ''
Firstpost
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The Network 18 group was originally owned by Raghav Bahl. In January 2012, the gro ...
'', and ''
BloombergQuint
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''. He has been the recipient of the Observer Business Journalist of the year in 1992,
and the Pole Star award for Best Feature in Business Journalism, in 2003.
Books
As an author, Aiyar's focus is at the intersection of economics and public policy. Some of his books include:
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References
Indian journalists
Indian investigative journalists
Indian economics writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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