Public health delivery has more corruption than police and taxation. That’s just one of the little-known facts about a sector…
The discussion should now shift from increasing liquidity to questions of what happens to that liquidity. Of measures announced so…
Arguably India?s best interpreter of the alphabet jumble that is WTO negotiations, Bibek Debroy explains in the first edition of…
Interest rates are difficult to pin down, since there is typically a spectrum, rather than a single number. However, one…
The World Bank?s poverty figures do not gel with information on consumer expenditure, not even for non-elitist items like TV,…
In many ways, Orissa is an image for worst forms of human deprivation. In 2001, J&K’s literacy rate of 55.52%…
There is a fundamental concern. Barring instances of accession, WTO hasn?t been successful in pushing liberalisation. That?s happened unilaterally or…
The Hyde Act is the United States-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Cooperation Act of 2006, so named because it was introduced…
We may now have forgotten about Operation Duryodhana in December 2005. Even though that sting operation was about asking parliamentary…
The global slowdown is a convenient scapegoat. This doesn?t mean there is no quantitative impact, but the effect is much…
My list is water (irrigation and drinking), power (generation and transmission), rural schools, primary health centres, rural roads, law and…
Nominal deposit and lending rates have been higher under the Congress than under the BJP, a proposition that becomes stronger…
DIAL banners all over Delhi airport ask passengers for their patience and understanding. The patience exists. But, because of mismanagement,…
With urbanisation and development, caste ceases to be a relevant construct, even if it is an important identity in rural…
?The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.? That was Vladimir…
All we know is Advani?s praise of the Modi model of good governance in Gujarat. As if building on that,…
Before deciding whether anything should be done about the growth slowdown, even if it means taking a conscious decision to…
The debate about whether the US is in recession is pointless in a technical sense. The requirement of two continuous…
