Why is there this obsession with 100 days? Is it because there is a nice ring to it? It can?t…
Negative indicators like IIP show images of the past. Courtesy time lags, what else should one expect? The present isn?t…
“If we had no iron here, then we should encourage the shipment from a foreign country, but not when we…
A country?s per capita income is an indicator of its level of well-being, or poverty. Without getting into differences between…
The decline in inflation was because of global factors. By the same token, high inflation was also because of global…
There is a swing of the pendulum to the Left. That?s global, what with de facto nationalisation across assorted sectors…
Any trained economist uses the word deflation with caution and will almost certainly define it as a sustained decline in…
In a Millennium Development Goals context, India?s performance is better in education than in health, though most MDGs are linked…
Twenty years from now, we will probably move towards 3 lakh villages and 20,000 urban centres, with the latter not…
Will growth be down to 5% or 4% for first half of 2009-10? Q3 GDP growth in 2008-09 was 5.3%.…
‘Budgeting’ for aam aadmi is a way of life – indispensable. The interim budget has put the common man in…
We won?t have a vote on account on 16th February. We will have an interim budget. This is a terrible…
This is Charles Darwin?s 200th birth anniversary and 150th anniversary of ?On the Origin of Species?. There is no evidence…
There is a backlog figure of 29.1 million in the court system. This is horrendous and it?s not quite the…
The novelist William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta and his father worked for British East India Company. Should we…
How will 2008 be remembered? Since 2003, India broke away from an earlier growth rate trend of 6.5% and approached…
Any Indian economist travelling abroad now is likely to be asked two questions. First, what is the economic impact of…
Bibek Debroy examines a question on many minds after the Mumbai attacks: does terrorism have an impact on the economy?…
