Rajiv Lall

How the World Bank group can scale climate finance

IFC should aim to become the leading equity fund manager and fund-of-funds manager for climate mitigation investment in emerging markets

Rajiv Lall: The 'disappointment brigade' gets the Budget wrong

Arun Jaitley's maiden effort is a welcome and purposeful change in direction and not UPA redux

Rajiv Lall: Turn the PPP model on its head

In restrospect, private sector participation in infrastructure was a case of too much too soon. Now, govt should build assets, and then sell them to private operators

Rajiv Lall: Privatisation not a panacea for PSU banks

The market can become more supportive of PSU banks provided the government improves their management and governance

Rajiv Lall: 'Minimum government, maximum governance' in public sector banks

The Bharatiya Janata Party regime will have to make good on this election slogan to restore state-owned banks to health

Rajiv Lall: Calling PSU banks to account

The government must move away from the mindset of 'owner as sovereign' to 'owner as investor' to make these institutions healthy again

Rajiv Lall: The art and craft of Budget formulation

Crafting a growth-oriented Budget that is fiscally sound and has wide political appeal is possible. Here's how

Rajiv Lall: The difficulty of making business easier to do

Antiquated laws, poor dispute resolution and a social dimension have contributed to the poor dynamic between business and bureaucracy in India

Rajiv Lall: 3 risks Modi government should manage

Modi's future success will depend on his ability to manage three risks: inflation, alienation of the Muslim community and infrastructure

Rajiv Lall: Where will the jobs come from?

The answer may lie in harnessing the small and medium enterprises rather than focusing on labour-intensive manufacturing

Rajiv Lall: Relying on manufacturing is unrealistic

Global trends suggest that the simple-minded notion of encouraging large-scale labour-intensive industries is no longer relevant

Rajiv Lall: Job creation - A counter-intuitive model

The rural non-farm sector has emerged as India's largest job creator since 2000 and needs to play a pivotal role in our structural transformation

Rajiv Lall: Why Indian urban administrators are poor service providers

Governance structures have left municipalities uniquely incapable of developing efficient delivery and planning mechanisms

Rajiv Lall: Economic governance needs a lighter touch

Facilitation and regulation, not supervision, should be the bureaucracy's mantra for handling the country's economy

Rajiv Lall: Urban nightmares and the politics of land

Our inability to tax land value accretion that accompanies rising levels of urbanisation has distorted land markets and skewed the development of our cities

Rajiv Lall: AAP and the politics of urbanisation

The next elections promise to be interesting since a less uniform urban vote could make things tricky for the Aam Aadmi Party

Rajiv Lall: The politics of unsustainable farming

India's future generations will pay the price for pervasive farm subsidies on water, power and fertiliser

Rajiv Lall: Bitter truths about sugar policies

In India's sugar bowl Maharashtra and elsewhere, policies serve a range of vested interests that have created a serious political stalemate

Rajiv Lall: The folly of policies shaped by politics

How repeated government intervention has come to benefit middlemen at the expense of farmers and consumers

Rajiv Lall: The good, the bad and the ugly of India's rural transformation

Despite impressive progress, a Green Revolution-era policy framework - subsidies for fertiliser and free electricity for groundwater irrigation - has now become an escalating risk to sustainability