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Will this rally last?
As the economy gets into the quarterly results season, the question is whether this rally has still got legs, or whether it will now run out of steam
Subir Gokarn: Coalition challenges
If coalitions are inevitable, we need to think of ways to provide more effective governance
Surinder Sud: Tackling global warming
Identifying varieties of various crops that can grow in higher temperatures will be vital in the years to come
Development gets votes
The issue of development has been acquiring a larger space in the aam aadmi's judgment over the age-old lines of identity
A normal monsoon
The "long-range" forecast of another normal monsoon has little practical utility as it cannot be used to plan for agriculture or water reserves
Vijay Joshi: Towards a new world money
As we move into a genuinely multi-polar world, the SDR's time may finally have come
Vandana Gombar: Missing the big idea
An ideal party manifesto should have a clear prioritisation of priorities to be effective
Parthasarathi Shome: An American VAT?
Graetz promotes a tax-mix on income, wages and wealth to ensure progressivity, and a VAT for revenue
A K Bhattacharya: Merits of a long apprenticeship
Rahul Gandhi knows the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the system
M J Antony: Judges in their own cause
Govt corporations insist on appointing their own officials as arbitrators in disputes
Cautious but far-reaching
If the economic outlook is so grim, RBI's action itself could have been more assertive, by way of a 50bps or even a 100 bps cut in benchmark rates