&nbsp;For some time, the rate of inflation measured week to week has been falling. 
&nbsp;The trouble with the recent brouhaha over inflation is that it seems to be based on impressions rather than facts.

Abheek Barua: Inflation - Myth, impression and reality

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P>Why blame the petroleum minister for not hiking oil prices when no one else is arguing for market prices? 
P>Poor Ram Naik and Mani Shankar Aiyar! They got all the blame for messing up with oil prices and halting the reforms that had been initiated with the proposed dismantling of the administered pricing mechanism (APM) for oil products from April 2002.

A K Bhattacharya: Where are the reformers?

P>Concluding the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) trade negotiations has become a prisoner of one alibi or the other.

D Ravi Kanth: Development Round?

P>Improving returns on our reserves is less important than agreeing why we hold them.

Suman Bery: What comes next?

Last week, as part of his strategy to rein in inflation, Finance Minister P Chidambaram, called for an investigation into what he alleges is the cartel-like behavior of Indian steel and cement companies.

BS Primer: Cartels and price controls

P>Last week, as part of his strategy to rein in inflation, Finance Minister P Chidambaram, called for an investigation into what he alleges is the cartel-like behavior of Indian steel and cement companies.

P>Unforeseen developments seldom offer such an opportunity to build a better future as does the massive Maoist electoral victory in Nepal.

Subir Roy: A new deal with Nepal

&nbsp;India has the world's largest number of child labourers even today.
&nbsp;The five-hour drive from Coimbatore to Munnar through the picturesque ghats could have been a visual treat but for the brief meeting with Mithailal Tikri at a tea shop, just half an hour into the journey.

Shyamal Majumdar: Mithailal`s bitter future

P>Let us not overstate the importance of inflation targeting in ensuring high growth.

Jaimini Bhagwati: Uncertain economic outcomes and humility

P>Given that the political season has begun in earnest and that inflation is dangerously high, it is clear that we will see nothing but tactical moves on the economy over the next several months.

Jamal Mecklai: A recipe for the next finance minister

P>Goaded by commentaries of retired CEAs and RBI executives also living in the past, the counterproductive beliefs of our ignorant leaders are bolstered.

Percy S Mistry: Paying the price of ignorance

P>Back in the early 1990s, the well-known Chicago economist Rudigar Dornbusch came to India and told a packed audience in New Delhi that India should simply stop trying to do cautious, step-by-step reform and go for a big bang approach.

T N Ninan: Servant, not master

P>For many months now the airport-bound public, supported by graphic media accounts, have been shouting from the rooftops about the outrageous conditions prevailing at the country&#39;s main airports but the mountain of evidence seems to have been water off a duck&#39;s back.

Sunil Sethi: The Barbarians at the Airport Gate

While there have been significant achievements in almost all disciplines, it must be appreciated that there is a definite capacity constraint in DRDO.

`DRDO alone can't meet country`s self-reliance goals`

P>A Planning Commission report points at lack of empowerment of local communities as the main reason for the fast spread of the Naxal movement.

Sreelatha Menon: Mirror on the wall

Ruffling feathers A recent decision of the Indian Revenue to tax capital gains earned by an American arm of AT&amp;T has ruffled many feathers.

AT&T rings bell on permissibility of tax arbitrage

Like India, Canada too has also decided to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) from the year 2011.

Transition to IFRS

Methane Gas has been adjudged as not manufactured by the Supreme Court in one of the latest judgements[1].

Methane gas and the new definition of manufacture

How beneficial are Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) for Contracting states remains a hotly debated issue, threatening to eclipse the success due to misgivings generated largely by the Latin American experience.

BITs and Peace: The connection

Last Saturday (10th May), at about 6 pm a private website flashed the news of enactment of the Finance Act, 2008 and issue of notification no.

New EPCG notification increases Customs` powers

&nbsp;The RBI should be asked to fulfil an inflationary target as its sole mandate. 
&nbsp;The fear that the recent rise in the inflation rate will scupper their chances of re-election has led the UPA government to blame the usual suspects: hoarders, monopolists, and of course, foreigners.

Deepak Lal: The inflation scare

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