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Rajeev Malik: Time to press the policy rate button
The emerging growth-inflation trade-off warrants a shift to policy rates for monetary management
Arbitrary Raja
SC did well to reject government blackmail
Two steps forward
Enforcing medical ethics a long journey
Dani Rodrik: The end of an era in finance
IMF¿s change of heart on capital controls is important, but it needs to be followed by further action
A K Bhattacharya: Positively Shattered Units
While the government stifled PSUs¿ operational autonomy, competition from the private sector hit their market share
M J Antony: Stamp of corruption
High rates of registration charges and poor implementation of rules lead to evasion of duty on property sale
Shyam Saran: Premature power
India has to leverage its "swing" status, engage with all and align with none
Subir Roy: Growing a Samsung or two
Govt must dangle access to the Indian market and ask MNCs to set up manufacturing here
Guaranteeing unemployment
MNREGS wages cannot be the minimum wage
Paying the piper
Paid news and electoral malpractice
Nitin Desai: Carbon forestry
Foresters should not succumb to the temptations of easy money for carbon sequestration
Latha Jishnu: Let's hear it for Brazil
Brazil plans to break IP rights on American drugs, music, software and movies as retaliation for its cotton subsidies
Y Venugopal Reddy: Revisiting the Tobin tax
It has immense potential when used along with complementary policies such as counter-cyclical and macro-prudential measures
Compete and survive
Opening up higher education
K Subrahmanyam: An ideal Defence Acquisition policy
Equipment should be chosen on the basis of technology-transfer and co-production considerations
Jamal Mecklai: Bt or not to be
Genetically-engineered crops are part of India's and the world's future, European purists notwithstanding
Shyamal Majumdar: Are you doing enough?
A McKinsey survey shows very few firms focus on building the capability that adds the most value to performance