Owl Wisdom Podcast: Recent Episodes
Owl Wisdom Podcast by Geeta Sundaram
Owl Wisdom Podcast provides commentary on current business, economic, political and cultural developments around the world. Written and presented by Geeta Sundaram, an advertising and brand communications professional in India, and blogger at peripateticperch.com it attempts to go beyond the 24x7 news cycle and takes a balanced and nuanced view of critical issues. "Owlways, with a wise-eyed view of the world," as Geeta likes to say.
When should governments prioritise pandemic relief over economic protectionism? In this edition of my Owl Wisdom Podcast, I look at the Indian government's "Self-Reliance" economic stimulus packages and whether they are adequate to get India out of the pandemic and the economic slump, or are merely designed to shut out China. For more on the covid pandemic and the Indian as well as the global economy, listen to previous editions of my podcast and read my blog peripateticperch.com
In this edition of the Owl Wisdom Podcast, I take a look at how Trump has fallen short of the economic promises he made and damaged global multilateralism with his America-first policies. I see his exit as a chance to remake the world economic order in order to revive trust, cooperation and confidence in an interdependent world. I also look at the chance to push through much-needed economic reforms, including reduction of inequality, climate change and regulation of tech.
This edition of my Owl Wisdom Podcast is prompted by a constant refrain and comparison that we always hear of pre-Covid days or years. Here I argue - like I did in my podcast on The Big Reset - that we need to take the pandemic as an opportunity to introduce meaningful reforms so that we can move forward from the pre-Covid world and make real progress.
In this edition of my Owl Wisdom Podcast, I look at how countries, especially India, can tackle the rise of China by making their own economies more competitive. For India which has a large number of SMEs who operate in the dominant informal sector, I look to Germany's Mittelstand experience as a policy to learn from. I also explore specific areas where India can invest and boost its competitiveness.
This edition of the Owl Wisdom Podcast focuses on leisure and work in the Covid Economy as the pandemic forces changes in our lives. It was prompted by my reading of Thorstein Veblen's book, Theory of the Leisure Class and I draw comparisons between his theory and the present day, when technology has wrought the biggest changes at work.
In this episode I talk about brands and why we can consider countries too to be brands.
I look at countries in the way they responded to the Covid pandemic and what that tells us about countries as brands. I discuss why it has a lot to do with culture and use Geert Hofstede's cultural dimensions of countries to make my point.
This edition of Owl Wisdom Podcast focuses on the global economic downturn as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and examines what central banks and governments are doing to stimulate the economy. Economic relief in order to boost consumer demand and global trade are key to managing this public health crisis as well as the economic crisis, for this is no ordinary recession.
This edition of the Owl Wisdom Podcast focuses on the impact that Covid-19 is having on different segments of the population and on different countries and regions. It looks at how Covid-19 is bringing to the surface deep inequalities that already exist in our world, and therefore, the kind of long-term policy reforms that are required.
In this Covid-19 special edition of Owl Wisdom Podcast, we imagine what the world will be like after Covid-19. What will be the critical issues the world must address together to fight pandemics in future. What will citizens, businesses and governments have to confront in the changed world?
This edition of Owl Wisdom Podcast is about the idea of stakeholder capitalism that is gaining ground around the world. It examines the evolution of stakeholder capitalism and what is required to make it work better and work for all
India's budget 2020: The road ahead likens the state of the Indian economy to an old car, which has slowed down considerably over the past few years, and critically examines this year's budget in the context of the slowdown.
Five Highs and Lows in 2020 explores what we can expect from the global economy in 2020. Here, Geeta Sundaram looks at the global economy in terms of indicators such as GDP, investment, trade, stock markets, etc.