Opinion

Is the Trump Treasury panicking?

A pain-free budget consolidation is wishful thinking, not least because of AI

India's education minister quality gap with China should worry us all

Over the past decade or so, India's education portfolio score has entered a bear market, as any two-bit technical analyst will tell you

Divergences & dualities in trade policies

Amid geopolitical flux, the prospects for reinvigorating the 80-year-old multilateral trade order appear dim straight talk 

Inclusive lending

Economists have shown that information asymmetry can produce adverse selection and that markets can lose good opportunities when one side does not have enough information about the other

Bitter harvest

The government says stocks are sufficient to meet domestic demand until the new crushing season begins in October, but the sharp price rise shows how sensitive the market has become

Best of BS Opinion: Limits of 'Economic D-Day' lie at China's gates

Today's Best of BS Opinion examines US sanctions on Iran, H1N1 risks, aviation regulation, hard-to-abate sector transition plans and India's software product journey.

The missing link to net zero

A net-zero target without sector transition plans and transition finance is a destination with no map

Mask up

Like other kinds of seasonal flu, H1N1 flourishes in humid weather

Limits of 'Economic D-Day'

Beijing is the customer of almost 90 per cent of Iran's exports of crude oil and it supplies Tehran much-needed infrastructure support and dual-use technologies

Focus on regulation

Caps on contracts are only a partial solution for dealing with oligopoly in India's airports

Reimagining skilling, not reengineering

A reimagined skilling system must be built around the changing world of work: What is changing, how fast, and how to responds to rapid changes, and counterintuitive shifts

India needs a grid revolution

The focus must shift from the visible spectacle of capacity addition to the invisible architecture of grid management

Best of BS Opinion: Building stronger foundations for durable growth

Durable growth depends not just on expansion but on stronger foundations across telecom, education, energy, skilling and institutions

Fixing the foundations

India needs to strengthen teaching infrastructure

Increasing telecom tariffs

Operators must not leave those looking for basic services

Best of BS Opinion: Power without guardrails becomes a risk

Power needs limits, markets need protection, development needs ecological restraint, capital narratives need scrutiny, and technology needs human oversight

Exim Matters: FTP-Customs regulatory mismatch disrupts DFIA-Rodtep claims

Customs' demand for repayment of RoDTEP credits from DFIA exporters creates a regulatory mismatch that needs retrospective clarification to protect exporters

A new kind of China Shock

What makes the Chinese export surge today different from its first, in the 2000s?

Ignore the FPI pessimism

For much of the past decade, the Indian investment proposition was almost self-evident

Development vs conservation

Kaziranga is famed for the one-horned rhinoceros; it has 2,613 of them, accounting for two-thirds of the world's population of this species