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Thursday 16 May '13India’s manufacturing sector has played an unusual role in the national growth experience, compared to many other developing countries
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Friday 08 Mar '13At my university, I help run a new initiative that focuses on finance, and we just hosted a visiting speaker, a prominent statistician known for some innovative algorithms for analysing data.
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Thursday 14 Feb '13Monetary policy was too timid and economic management dysfunctional—there’s no real puzzle here.
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Wednesday 30 Jan '13Obama’s political journey and his vision hold important lessons for India’s people, as they struggle for better governance.
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Thursday 17 Jan '13We need a relook at legislations that affect women, ranging from laws on rape to education, marriage and inheritance.
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Friday 28 Dec '12In previous columns, I discussed the concept of virtuous growth, which encompasses inclusive growth.

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Thursday 06 Dec '12India may chug along at 6-7% growth but the kind of transformation that double-digit growth can achieve is beyond our reach.
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Saturday 01 Dec '12With multi-brand retail FDI finally set to be allowed in India, it is useful to reflect on what we know and don’t know.
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Friday 09 Nov '12Is policy design and implementation at the state or local level better than centralised decision-making?
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Tuesday 30 Oct '12States are exercising autonomy in competing for investment. That can be good for improving conditions for doing business.
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Thursday 18 Oct '12A big problem in India is that individuals do not see the connection between the taxes they pay and the services govt provides.
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Wednesday 19 Sep '12In my last column, I introduced the concept of virtuous growth, which subsumes the idea of inclusive growth.
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Wednesday 12 Sep '12India’s ruling coalition has promoted the idea of inclusive growth. What this means operationally is something that can be debated.
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Wednesday 22 Aug '12India should seek a diversity of stronger economic ties—with the US, with China, with South Korea ...
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Tuesday 14 Aug '12We need capital and knowledge from the rest of the world. But China is not a trustworthy source of either of these things.
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Thursday 26 Jul '12India’s demographic trends could lead to a dividend of higher growth, as the working age population bulges.
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Saturday 23 Jun '12India needs more Level 5 leadership, a paradoxical blend of personal humility and intense professional will.
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Thursday 14 Jun '12Indians will emerge from poverty through the lessons of economics, not by blaming the discipline.
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Saturday 26 May '12Many observers have commented at length on India’s apparent policy drift, in which economic reforms are being stalled, or even reversed.
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Friday 11 May '12India 2.0 will need a government that prioritises more intelligently for inclusive growth.
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Monday 30 Apr '12MFI loans are more often taken for household consumption than for businesses, but that’s perfectly okay.
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Wednesday 18 Apr '12While waiting for Walmart, build institutions that relax the financing constraints of small producers.
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Thursday 22 Mar '12This year I happened to be in New Delhi the day the Union Budget was presented in Parliament.
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Wednesday 14 Mar '12In my last column, I wrote about learning from China.
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Thursday 16 Feb '12It has been better at fostering innovation, liberalising foreign investment, improving quality of govt expenditure.

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