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Nitin Desai
Nitin Desai
Nitin Desai is a highly-regarded economist and chairperson of the advisory board at Desai & Associates. He had a long stint in government in India as secretary and chief economic adviser in the finance ministry.
Nitin Desai is a highly-regarded economist and chairperson of the advisory board at Desai & Associates. He had a long stint in government in India as secretary and chief economic adviser in the finance ministry.
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Nitin Desai: A competitively populist Budget
The new government must discipline the spending habits of Union ministries
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
Nitin Desai: Irrational expectations
Reviving growth may take longer than investors - domestic and foreign - expect
Nitin Desai: India's right to health
The Congress party's suggested right to health, if implemented, would be a game-changer
Nitin Desai: The taper's good for India
The US Federal Reserve's tapering of unconventional monetary policy will force the Indian government to correct the twin deficits
Nitin Desai: Aam Aadmi economics
The author looks at what can be discerned of citizens' troubles from the new political party's platform
Nitin Desai: It's the economy, people
It's the floundering economy that caused the Congress' grievous loss in the Assembly elections
Nitin Desai: Towards 2050 - Saving the environment
By 2050, India will be a devastated country if the deafness to environmental and resource concerns persists
Nitin Desai: Towards 2050 - social protection
India will have to learn from more advanced economies to design social safety nets that are both effective and sustainable
Nitin Desai: Towards 2050 - the challenge of cities
Without immediate reform, a middle-income India will continue to live and work in low-income cities
Towards 2050: the energy transition
An emphasis on renewables, smaller cities and decentralised power grids is essential
Towards 2050: the technology factor
If Indian companies don't start spending on R&D, they will die
 "Towards 2050: the technology factor")
Towards 2050: structural shifts
India must leave behind agriculture, family companies and public sector monoliths for competitive, professionally run enterprises
 "Towards 2050: structural shifts")
Towards 2050: development imperatives
India will have to completely reverse how it focuses development activity in the coming decades
 "Towards 2050: development imperatives")
Looking towards 2050
The author lays out the key inflection points that will affect India's development in the decades to come
 "Looking towards 2050")