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Ashok Lahiri: Miniaturisation to scaling up

Industrialisation in West Bengal will need more carefully planned land utilisation

Ashok Lahiri: Rich cousins to the east

Re-establishing India's relations with Southeast Asia will take perseverance - but should pay off handsomely

Ashok Lahiri: Finding an Indian Deng

India's Deng Xiaoping will face a unique set of challenges that China's Deng did not

Ashok K Lahiri: Putting teeth back in FRBM

In the second of two articles, the author explains why better accounting practices and improved budgetary management are imperative

Ashok K Lahiri: FRBM without its teeth

In the first of a two-part series, the author wonders whatever has happened to the FRBM Act

Ashok K Lahiri: Coping with regional disparities

Lessons from Asia's experience on how to deal with economically laggard Indian states

Ashok Lahiri: Relook at tea garden labour

The costs imposed on tea companies by outdated labour laws hamper Indian exports

Ashok K Lahiri: Corruption and Indian democracy

Democracy is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for rooting out corruption

Ashok K Lahiri: A land of megapolises?

A lesson from China's urbanisation - cities belong to more than their residents

Ashok K Lahiri: Closing the infra gap

The developmental logic behind the new BRICS Bank is compelling

Ashok K Lahiri: AAP needs to transition from politics of protest to politics of power

How successfully Arvind Kejriwal manages the issue of inner-party democracy will determine whether the AAP is seen as transforming politics

Ashok Lahiri: Move forward on infrastructure, not back

Shifting to a PPP model where the state bears most of the risk could repeat the errors of the past

Ashok Lahiri: Socialism with Indian characteristics

The compulsions of electoral politics pushed 'socialist' India towards promising a welfare state far in advance of the state's actual capacity

Ashok Lahiri: Reform: so much, and so little

How did so much reform happen in 1991 - and why so little in the decades since?

Ashok Lahiri: Continuing challenges for West Bengal

For the state government, there is no alternative to revising user charges and also creating a strong industrial base

Ashok Lahiri: That old majority rule

What Condorcet has to say about the land acquisition Act

Ashok Lahiri: Why India should adopt demat model for land titles

The country's experience with securities shows a way to help create a market for land