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Four fatal failures

What the Cairn loss reveals about the Indian state's incompetence, incapacity, and arrogance

The search for news media

The pathetic state of India's news media - particularly news TV - leaves it at the mercy of international media and a few Indian brands that have the capacity to cover a story like the pandemic

China's pursuit of global finance

The swift liberalisation of China's financial market could have unintended consequences for India and the world

Are intellectuals killing convergence?

A historic process of deglobalisation is underway which can scuttle the growth of poor nations. Disturbingly, this shift has been met by silence or even encouragement by those who should know better

Modi, Williamson and Alesina

Williamson and Alesina were both economists who offered insights that India must follow over the next two decades. If it doesn't, it can resign itself to its current low-grade economic status.

Best of BS Opinion: The PM-CM-DM structure, trade liberalisation, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Covid-19: World Bank sees FY21 India growth at 1.5-2.8%, slowest since 1991

It estimated India will grow 4.8 per cent to 5 per cent in the 2019-20 fiscal that ended on March 31

30 years later, Economic Survey lays down the ground for Liberalisation 2.0

Embracing capitalism in a new avatar

Companies' Sensex tenure pared by 80% post liberalisation: Economic Survey

Higher dynamism has helped the emergence of new firms which have challenged the old order, survey notes

How I'll spend my New Year's Eve

I hope to wake to a breakfast I can pluck off the vegetable patch, with milk directly from a buffalo - while the rest of the family, and the world, nurses hangovers

Reviving animal spirits

Reviving the moribund economy must be our national priority. There's much to learn from 1991

The calculus of liberalisation

Despite a booming global economy, our share of world exports has, in fact, declined over the past five years

M Ramachandran: Urban reform in the liberalisation era

Much more remains to be done to make life and living better for our urban residents. The earlier these issues are addressed, the better managed our cities will become

Nitin Desai: Beyond liberalisation

The real challenge facing the Indian economy now is the restructuring of public institutions and regulatory systems

Liberalisation had negative impact on Indian economy: Prakash Karat

Karat said at a seminar on '25 years of liberalisation and its experiences' to mark 24th death anniversary of CPM ideologue Makineni Basava Punnaih