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Budget: Key sectors at play

Risks around skill shortage need to be addressed

Issues of govt nod, liquidity, FDI need to be addressed

Not yet the default choice of pvt businesses

Let it fail

More bank loans to Kingfisher will be illogical

Guessing the monsoon

Govt must act on global predictions too

Claude Smadja: Europe will never be the same

The crisis and the painful, austerity-induced recession will focus anger on a relentless Germany

Ajit Balakrishnan: 'Core competence' and other tales

It is not certain whether management theories have a role in modern society. In fact, some of them need to be reconstructed

Barun Roy: Malaysia's SCORE card

How the country is luring big-ticket investments in Sarawak

Indicus Analytics: Pulses of the nation

Supply of pulses continues to lag demand despite record output

Wake-up call

The EAC report spells out a grim macroeconomic situation

Tracks to safety

Get the Railways' structure and delegation right

Indira Rajaraman: The Ides of March

If fiscal discipline is sought by curbing public expenditure on infrastructure, the long-term potential growth rate will get curtailed

Jyoti Malhotra: Biting the bullet in Pakistan

Pragmatism, not ego, can take the relationship forward

I expect a simpler but effective tax system

Tax filing processes, forms need modifications

T N Ninan: A fully taxed nation

India's tax-to-GDP ratio is higher than other Asian countries

Shubhasis Gangopadhyay: Don't blame the implementers

Corruption and government apathy may not be hurting MNREGS as much as well-intentioned tinkering

Devangshu Datta: Criminalising a minority

In the absence of a supportive social climate, many LGBT teens experience severe depression. This category is at higher risk for suicide

What Mallya's PROs should have told him