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A K Bhattacharya
A K Bhattacharya
A K Bhattacharya is a senior economic journalist with over four decades of experience. He is Business Standard's editorial director and a writer of a long-running column - Raisina Hill. He had set the bar for business reporting as the chief of bureau at the Economic Times in the early 1990s, when economic reforms raged. He had a ringside view to many other disruptions, creative and otherwise, during his four decades in journalism, a journey that started when he switched careers after a year of teaching.
A K Bhattacharya is a senior economic journalist with over four decades of experience. He is Business Standard's editorial director and a writer of a long-running column - Raisina Hill. He had set the bar for business reporting as the chief of bureau at the Economic Times in the early 1990s, when economic reforms raged. He had a ringside view to many other disruptions, creative and otherwise, during his four decades in journalism, a journey that started when he switched careers after a year of teaching.
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Lunch with BS: Ruchir Sharma
In Delhi to promote his latest book, Sharma tells A K Bhattacharya that the 10 broad rules he has zeroed in on to define the progress and decline of countries should stand the test of time
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A K Bhattacharya: A reset in policy
The Centre's move to change the functioning of the RBI, expected to put an end to the bickering between itself and the central bank, could yet spawn controversies
A K Bhattacharya: Implications of the relaxation in FDI norms
The overall FDI policy landscape is changing and can do so faster. Inflows, too, are improving, but more reform is needed to attract more FDI into manufacturing and infrastructure sectors
A K Bhattacharya: The skill of asking for more
For its ambitious goals, the Ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship needs more funds
A K Bhattacharya: Ins and outs of labour exit policy
Unless the govt ensures certain conditions, such a policy won't become a reality
A K Bhattacharya: Driving in different directions
The value of investment proposals slid 23 per cent in 2015 even as the number of jobs to be created through such investments rose 12 per cent. This necessitates a closer look at the state of job creat
A K Bhattacharya: Changing for the better
The information and broadcasting ministry's business-like and result-oriented handling of several issues has set a template for other ministries to follow
A K Bhattacharya: Much more than numbers
The confusion over whether the growth rate projected is in real or nominal terms has influenced the other targets as well
A K Bhattacharya: Questions on strategic disinvestment
Doubts over implementation of a Cabinet-approved strategic sale policy are puzzling
A K Bhattacharya: Light at the end of the tunnel
Surplus in March, the last month of a financial year, has helped the government reduce fiscal deficit in the last few years. It should judiciously use the savings of last year to meet the fiscal defic
A K Bhattacharya: Reducing tax exemptions across sectors
It would perhaps make more sense if the finance ministry gave greater emphasis on the need for phasing out concessions in indirect taxes
A K Bhattacharya: The influences on the Budget
The impact the Economic Survey had on the Budget proposals and the influence the Prime Minister wielded on them deserve close attention