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column-india-in-obama-s-new-asia-pivot
Monday 12 Nov '12President Barack Obama’s second term is likely to put the US on a somewhat different ideological path, relative to the 20th century American capitalism one is so familiar with.
column-time-for-cag-to-audit-the-states
Wednesday 29 Aug '12The Opposition is quick to pounce on the Centre for lack of transparency, but few states follow the same rules.
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Friday 03 Aug '12Since Chidambaram knows good tax administration is key, expect him to focus on DTC and GST.
column-case-for-a-75-basis-points-cut
Friday 08 Jun '12Manufacturing is hurting and RBI could be on its way to achieving the inflation target of 6.5% for 2012-13.
from-westphalia-with-love
Friday 18 May '12The current spell of currency volatility across several emerging market economies is clearly on account of the manner in which politics is unfolding in the euro area.
the-middle-path-on-interest-rates
Tuesday 17 Apr '12Conducting monetary policy in a complex global economic environment could be bit like resorting to astrology as a means of predicting outcomes.

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Monday 19 Mar '12Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke just after the presentation of the Union Budget and suggested the government would “bite the bullet” while dealing with the burgeoning oil subsidies, the single biggest political economy question facing the UPA today.
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Monday 12 Mar '12Putting together a Third Front not so easy as, historically, it has always been the Left that has been the lynchpin in forming the Front...
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Tuesday 21 Feb '12The ongoing assembly election in the country’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, is being watched and analysed intensely because of its profound impact on the politics at the Centre.
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Tuesday 07 Feb '12The special court examining the criminal conspiracy around the 2G spectrum allocation gave a clean chit to P Chidambaram saying he had absolutely no role to play in the manner in which A Raja subverted the telecom licensing process.
column-lots-of-silver-linings-out-there
Thursday 26 Jan '12With FIIs and the Sensex back with a bang and a possible post-UP elections reforms surge, 2012 looks better.
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Monday 16 Jan '12There has been an unprecedented surge of gold imports into both India and China in 2011 and this is likely to continue in the future.
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Friday 30 Dec '11Anna Hazare’s transformation—from a social activist with considerable moral force to being a catalyst in the rough and tumble of India’s party politics—was nearly complete when he tragically declared before the thinning crowds at Mumbai’s MMRDA grounds that Team Anna will campaign against the Congress party in the forthcoming assembly elections as well as in the run up to the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
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Wednesday 07 Dec '11The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has sent a very strong signal to the foreign exchange market that it is ready to deploy every tool in the book to defend the rupee if it sees a short-term risk of “accelerated downward spiral in the rupee’s exchange rate”.
column-good-competitive-politics
Tuesday 22 Nov '11India’s political economy is currently witnessing two parallel trajectories that may seem disruptive on the face of it but have the potential to take us to a new state of institutional equilibrium.
column-flight-into-disaster
Thursday 17 Nov '11The financial woes of Kingfisher Airlines have grabbed media headlines these past few days.
column-reinventing-the-congress-party
Tuesday 08 Nov '11It is nearly official now that Rahul Gandhi will take over as the working president of the Congress party in a few months. Some media reports say this change of guard could take place earlier than many expect.
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Thursday 20 Oct '11Central bankers in many big emerging market economies have suddenly shifted their focus from aggressively attacking inflation to creating conditions for growth.
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Tuesday 04 Oct '11The political drama, entirely manufactured by the UPA government, over the inter-ministerial “background paper” on the 2G issue is refusing to die down.
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Monday 26 Sep '11The UPA government, headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, appears to suffer withdrawal symptoms if even a month passes without having to deal with a serious political crisis.
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Wednesday 21 Sep '11Last week the finance ministry allowed Indian companies to access yuan-denominated loans from Chinese banks within certain limits.
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Friday 09 Sep '11The draft approach paper to the Twelfth Five Year Plan does well to recognise some hard realities that face India’s political economy in the 12th plan period.
column-it-s-time-for-some-selfcleansing
Monday 22 Aug '11There was something truly surreal about images on various news television channels on the day Anna Hazare brilliantly trapped the government into taking him to Tihar jail.
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Friday 12 Aug '11The US Fed reserve did something unprecedented on Tuesday by publicly stating that it will keep interest rates at near zero until 2013.
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Wednesday 03 Aug '11India’s leading industrialists felt a sense of catharsis after their meeting with finance minister Pranab Mukherjee at the North Block on Monday.