Page 5 - Nitin Desai

Maurice Strong: The committed environmentalist

Maurice Strong brought to public policy an entrepreneurial outlook and a deep commitment to just and workable solutions, writes Nitin Desai

Nitin Desai: Fair shares and the Paris offers

Climate change offers from all the major developed countries fall well short of what they should be doing

Nitin Desai: Are poverty percentages useful?

Angus Deaton's Nobel Prize should spark off more research on the measurement and usefulness of poverty percentages

Nitin Desai: The trouble with corporate myopia

If Indian companies took a long view, they would invest more in research and development

Nitin Desai: A more responsible politics

A less confrontational political discourse is doubly desirable as India faces many economic policy challenges in the near future

Nitin Desai: What should India offer at Paris?

Our climate-change effort should be built around energy efficiency, accelerated reforestation, & the ambitious renewable energy target

Nitin Desai: What we need from Paris

Depending on market forces to ensure the transition to renewable energy will lead to more distress in the light of galloping global warming

Nitin Desai: The wrong land war

Why is the government fighting for an illiberal land acquisition law that ignores the advice of its own Economic Survey?

Nitin Desai: Chinese lessons

As China slows and India revs up, what can New Delhi learn from Beijing's errors in its high-growth phase?

Nitin Desai: Reviving animal spirits

Besides improvement in the underlying economic conditions, the private sector is still looking for serious action on the ease of doing business

Nitin Desai: A Budget for the Aam Aadmi

FM must free up opportunities not just for the corporate sector but also for small-scale industries and local governments

Nitin Desai: Targeting development

So far, the government has given us targeting without planning. Hopefully, the revamped Planning Commission will fix that

Nitin Desai: A competitively populist Budget

The new government must discipline the spending habits of Union ministries

Nitin Desai: Exhaustion in Lima

The confused outcome of climate-change talks reflects the complex fault lines that divide countries on this issue

Nitin Desai: From equity to intensity

India must now match the offers from China, the US and Europe with an emissions-reduction plan that goes beyond what it has already offered

Nitin Desai: Children first

Kailash Satyarthi's Nobel Prize is a reminder that we must focus on child labour and education

Nitin Desai: Planning Commission Mark II

If in 2017 yet another five-year Plan has to be formulated, then the new institution will not be very different from the present Planning Commission

Nitin Desai: RIP Planning Commission

The Planning Commission has not been central to the policymaking process since the mid-1960s

Nitin Desai: Mr Jaitley's Budget imperatives

The author enumerates the specific signals that Arun Jaitley's first Budget should convey

Nitin Desai: A flawed election

B R Ambedkar's fears about personality cults in politics and money power in elections seem to be coming true