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A K Bhattacharya: Goodbye to privatisation?

Deepak Lal: China's cloudy future - I

China's hope of resuming more sustainable market-based economic growth may be belied

Behind the excitement

Can start-ups ensure sustainable job growth?

Anchoring issues

Implications of the increasing role of anchor investors

A second Halla Bol

Daniel Gros: The end of German hegemony

Recipe for pulses

Long-term solutions needed to tackle domestic output deficit

Pre-1991 thinking

Statist mindset runs through draft capital goods policy

Why are Indian children stunted?

Nearly 40% of Indian children are stunted. How can this be changed

Four challenges that India faces in achieving sustainable development goals

It is upto central and state governments to ensure that 'S' in SDGs also stands for 'successful'

US Fed pause prolongs uncertainty

In fact, 2015 is a historic year, as India will overtake Brazil and Russia to emerge as the second largest BRICS nation, after China

Vinayak Chatterjee: The debilitating discom drag

Hard and unpopular decisions are needed - not just another round of financial repackaging

Abheek Barua & Bidisha Ganguly: The easy money debate resurfaces

Critics of quantitative easing say it has inflated asset prices without stimulating any real economic growth. Those who back it say a premature withdrawal has led to discouraging data over the last fe

Sunita Narain: Who can touch diesel?

Nitin Pai: A military-industrial complex of our own

Without deeper structural changes to defence production and procurement, indigenisation will continue to elude India

A new tax regime

Govt must consult industry and implement BEPS project

Pranjul Bhandari: India's inflation divide

Urban India benefits from lower global prices while rural India, partly because of its structural ailments, is unable to do so with equal vigour

R Krishna Das: Given the short shrift in the Bihar poll campaign

Keen to capture the backward class vote, which has been its Achilles heel, the BJP has kept most upper caste leaders off its list of star campaigners in Bihar. So Chhattisgarh has lost out: its CM bel

Jayanta Roy: Diversify services to boost exports

Data analytics and management will emerge as a huge area of opportunity in professional services exports for India

T N Ninan: Mr Modi and Dr Singh

There must be a way of combining sensible policy, based on a certain worldview and an agenda, with a bias for action