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Economy & Policy » Columnists » Columnists

An irrelevant austerity debate

23 May 2013

It isn't domestic debt that should worry Europe's policy makers, it's external debt

Scaling the great wall of symbolism

23 May 2013

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit to India showed the impact of patient and persuasive diplomacy on both sides - but it's the outcome that will ...

South Asia: All in one

22 May 2013

A unified community will help cross-border investments across nations

Underperforming even in good times

21 May 2013

The author compares India's boom years with East Asia's

The last rites of sick units

21 May 2013

Workers wait long enough to get dues after liquidation proceedings

A detox programme

20 May 2013

The government needs to be less hesitant about inflation-indexed bonds, or the market wont be liquid enough

Bonanza from the Pacific

20 May 2013

Domestic farming of Vannamei shrimp has expanded the export market

Renegotiating PPP contracts

20 May 2013

Projects run the risk of getting derailed in the absence of an institutional mechanism for renegotiation

Where's the coal?

19 May 2013

The binding constraint has shifted from power generation to coal availability

The economics of trust

19 May 2013

While Indian policy makers have been sensitive to slowing growth, growing inflation and widening fiscal and current account deficits, few ...

Corrupting the PPP model

19 May 2013

Outsourcing government services to the private sector will work only if the system is monitored properly

How India should reform its trade for the 21st century

18 May 2013

Focus on integrating India into regional trade blocs and helping professional services transcend borders

Free labour for govt

18 May 2013

The government earns Rs 70,000 cr off its six million social workforce by flouting labour laws

Time to state a strategy

18 May 2013

In a recent talk delivered in New Delhi, the former foreign secretary and current chairman of the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB), Shyam ...

'We must identify the causes of moral decline in our society'

18 May 2013

It gives me immense pleasure to be here today for the third Convocation of Nagaland University, a premier centre of higher learning in the ...

Changing class in America

17 May 2013

America's upper and working classes have grown very far apart

After Cobrapost

17 May 2013

It's likely that probe into KYC violations will be delayed or derailed, while Cobrapost's funding would be scrutinised

Power projects in a price maze

16 May 2013

CERC's decisions on Adani, Tata and Reliance's UMPPs suggest that the principles for raising tariff should be linked to an indexed formula

US immigration Bill - is there an opportunity in crisis?

16 May 2013

This may finally be India's chance to shed its knowledge-renter image and emerge as a creator

Looking towards 2050

15 May 2013

The author lays out the key inflection points that will affect India's development in the decades to come

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