Globalisation needs to be managed, or things could get nasty. I f globalisation is associated with heightened insecurity or social…
So, global recovery is under way, at least for now. The financial system did not collapse. Trade has started growing…
It comes to something when the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City warns of the dangers of…
When concentrated interests effectively appropriate a collective narrative there?s a potent recipe for policy distortion. A striking example is the…
How bad is the drought? It is not a crisis for the macroeconomy, but is potentially catastrophic for affected households.
Can public private partnerships solve India?s huge infrastructure deficit?
Will India?s growing middle class drive its social and economic transformation? The investment community, both global and Indian, has been…
Economic spirits are up in India, notwithstanding budget-related disappointment. Growth has been impressively resilient despite the global crisis. Stock exchanges…
Equity, innovation and public accountability have been affirmed as the core criteria for the new government. Let?s look at basic…
One common interpretation of the Indian election was that the electorate had rejected the politics of polarisation in favour of…
The remarkable outcome of India?s election was fundamentally driven by domestic considerations. It could prove far-reaching in its implications for…
What has the debate over bailout or bankruptcy of the US car industry got to do with India?s National Rural…
India is a prodigy when it comes to electoral democracy, confounding the traditional view that democracy in a poor country…
One of the more concrete outcomes of last week?s G-20 meeting was the agreement to substantially increase the resources of…
Greed is in the news. Greed is at the centre of two great economic and social crises of our times:…
Child malnutrition in India is both shockingly high and a puzzle. Almost half of children under five are malnourished in…
The United States Congress is likely to agree on a fiscal stimulus that could well be too small and insufficiently…
India?s truly rich suffered a momentous fall in wealth in 2008. According to Forbes, in February there were almost 50…
