The international evidence on successful special economic zones underlines the significance of strategic location, geographical size, functional autonomy, efficient administrative…
All sound relationships are based on strong pillars. The future India-US ties are expected to be based on an unexpected…
Asia learnt a few lessons in 1997. The most important of these was self-reliance. The 1997 Asian financial crisis was…
At the meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Lima on November 22, 2008, the representatives agreed to refrain…
Paul Krugman?s Nobel award has refocused attention on determinants of international trade. Modern trade is not only guided by scale…
What is it with October? Both the earlier ‘great’ stock market crashes happened in this month. On its anniversary, a…
High transaction costs are not ?sufficient? conditions for discouraging FDI. Investors are prepared to factor in these costs if they…
Asian markets rocked as the Lehman Brothers and AIG saga unfolded on Wall Street. Share prices swung wildly as volatile…
The Singur formula has overlooked a critical issue. Industrial land must be contiguous. Otherwise, land and machines cannot be used…
But how is the compensation decided? Basics say that an asset derives its value from its use. A plot of…
What are Fitch and S&P worried about? They are not sure whether expenditure will be maintained at the planned levels.…
The policy response to the latest inflation numbers in India has been predictable. RBI has increased the repo rate and…
It is not only India that has recently been forced to revise petroleum product prices at the risk of aggravating…
Talk on retail in India never fails to arouse emotions. However, unlike several other emotionally-charged themes in India?s public policy,…
India has had some problems with the application of the non-linear Swiss formula. It has generally preferred the Girard formula,…
