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Not the obvious solution
Privatising poorly run state-owned banks made more sense
Sreelatha Menon: Karnataka's direct cash plan
The state government has announced an Income Commission for farmers in an election year
India's tight-fisted rich
Why is Azim Premji still something of an exception?
Partial paralysis
The two-day nationwide strike was orchestrated more to make the trade unions feel more relevant than to address key issues
Sunanda K Datta-Ray: Bengal's rough and tough underbelly
Mamata Banerjee is not doing enough to help a relatively depressed Muslim community in the state — and this is breeding communalism, originating in the Garden Reach industrial suburb
No recovery in business cycle
Despite the current market rally, maintain status quo and continue with your normal investment plans
The temporal value
INSIGHT
Abheek Barua & Shivom Chakravarti: US$ - The unbearable heaviness of being
The fate of the dollar hinges on whether a US slowdown is treated as a bellwether of a global slowdown
Aditi Phadnis: Nepal gets a Maoist proxy
Despite a new prime minister, the country could be headed for more instability
Arvind Singhal: Tackling food inflation
Food inflation continues to run amok, and very clearly, the government does not seem to have any clue on how to rein it in
A V Rajwade: Why the yuan is gaining currency
The Chinese leadership is working hard at making the yuan the preferred choice across world markets
Barun Roy: Malaysia hits the grandstand
The country is set to transform its economy with a mass transit railway network
House of bamboo
It may be a tree, grass or weed, but it's green gold
Nagesh Kumar: Pointers for growth in Asia-Pacific
Developing economies of the region face fresh downside challenges as they enter 2011
Nripendra Misra & Nidhi Sen: Taking politics out of statutory appointments
Transparency & political unanimity should be the touchstones for all govt-led appointment procedures
Pradeep S Mehta: Competitive neutrality in public policy
A number of competition distortions or impediments arise owing to our policy framework in different areas of economic governance