This year's Economics Nobel rewards disagreement

A heterodox discipline

Business Standard

Other ways to raise capital's efficiency also needed

Beyond finance reform

Infosys back in favour

Persistent food inflation constrains monetary policy

Tears from onions

The index of industrial production (IIP) numbers for August reinforce the assessment that there are few, if any, signs of recovery in the industrial sector. Year-on-year growth was a mere 0.6 per cent, significantly below consensus expectations. For the April-August period, it was an even more measly 0.1 per cent. The manufacturing sector, which accounts for almost 80 per cent of the IIP, declined slightly in August and was flat for the April-August period. With almost half the year gone by, these patterns do not bode well for economic growth, with projections of anything over five per cent for the year becoming critically dependent on a sharp turnaround in the second half.

Editorial: An elusive economic recovery

But government's hard work has just begun

Succeeding on Phailin

Ever more clear that sports bodies need reform

The Jwala Gutta case

Government must not change road contracts ex post facto

Crony capitulation

Little and late

The Bali agenda

Foreign capital sees little virtue in Indian partners

Forced marriages

Need for a new states reorganisation commission

Lessons from Hyderabad

RBI starts taking liquidity measure back to July

Returning to normal

Depoliticise tariffs

Unmaking monetary policy

Global ranking will help Indian universities

An ostrich-like approach

Issues at stake in the coming Assembly polls

A guide to 2014

Kolkata puzzles the world with its cycle ban

Cycling backwards

Dysfunctional US politics may set off another crisis

The real shutdown problem

Government adds to its arbitrariness on gas pricing

Double jeopardy

Empowering the voter

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