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Vikram Gandhi & Chandni Ohri: Acche din for the financially excluded or too much din?

The poor and unbanked can take their rightful place as consumers of financial services only if the Modi government encourages different entities to advance the financial inclusion agenda

Altering Punjab's caste equations

The Punjab experience suggests rising agricultural productivity doesn't automatically translate into better jobs,but the story doesn't end there.

As Hyundai changes strategy, India's status as auto export hub in question

Hyundai India's move is driven by high logistics costs and a 6.5% European import duty

Defending Dhoni

If Dhoni was in the team merely as captain, and not as a batsman-wicketkeeper, would he have beaten England?

Back to the future in Vidarbha for cotton farmers

How a new-old planting technique could make rain-fed cotton planting more viable

EPL: week one, take one

Man United stumble as Chelsea, Man City lay down early marker

New Delhi's new red line on Indo-Pak dialogue

With the latest interruption of dialogue, New Delhi has only half a strategy - flexing its muscles at Islamabad but not reaching out to Kashmir

No easy routes to financial inclusion

Financial inclusion must be set up to pay for itself

Shankar Acharya: So far, policy reform is all talk, no action

So what are the Modi government's economic priorities?

A K Bhattacharya: A lucky government?

Luck appears to be on the government's side. It needs to take full advantage of it by initiating long overdue economic reforms without delay

Vanita Kohli-Khandekar: Trai's take on media ownership

Its recent paper is a call for the media to fix the sorry state of the news industry in India

5 things Narendra Modi can learn from Coca Cola about building toilets

Building toilets is only the beginning and the easiest part of the battle. Water and maintenance are the key challenges

The 'Rajasthan Model' takes the reforms ramp

Policy reform at the top of the state's agenda

Why capping own ATM usage is not a good idea

Instead of encouraging customers to adopt technology, RBI's latest move may mean more crowding at bank branches

Avirup Bose: Too many regulators cause a regulatory deficit

The proliferation of sectoral watchdogs has created competing and overlapping jurisdictions. The process urgently needs to be streamlined for the government to deliver policy reforms effectively

Vivek Dehejia: A monetary policy paradigm

Richard Clarida's recent paper could be key for policymakers in deciding whether India should move to an 'inflation targeting policy regime'

Narendra Modi's zero-impact manufacturing plan is hogwash

Industrial growth requires natural resources and impacts environment. India could do better by accounting for it rather than playing blind

Quarterly results belie paucity of private investment

Time for government aggression and investor caution

Susan Thomas: Retail trade in derivatives: Is there really a problem?

Before considering reducing the freedom of private investors in the derivatives market, we need to check if the maladies in markets elsewhere exist in India

Abheek Barua: How to regulate shadow banks

Ring-fencing banks will help but it does not mitigate the risks that the sheer size of the 'shadow system' poses for the larger economy