"Economic Slowdown is a Deep, Long-term and Structural Problem"

India, presently, is facing a grave economic slowdown, with sales dropping across all sectors. But what is more worrying is that this slowdown is also being accompanied by significant increase in financial fragility which manifests itself in various forms. In his talk at a seminar titled 'Dreams and Reality: Unpacking India's Economic Crisis', Professor CP Chandrasekhar from Jawaharlal Nehru University talks about how this problem is not a cyclical one, but is a deep, long-term and structural problem.