With inflation a headline story in India, and the Reserve Bank (RBI) continuing its inflation control efforts?most recently by hiking…
This column is being written in a hotel room in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where I am about to give a talk…
As India?s economy and polity have matured, the annual Budget exercise has become less significant as a shaper of policy.…
As someone from India who has lived in the West much of his life, it is gratifying to see the…
Business schools in the US are one example of that country?s global leadership in higher education. In the last few…
Economic policy debates in India often proceed without the analytical foundations that have been tested against data. Casual empiricism certainly…
India?s economy is growing more robustly than many thought would ever be possible. As one would expect from argumentative Indians,…
India is growing robustly, in spite of high oil prices and a global economy that shows signs of slowing. Domestic…
The recent Planning Commission approach paper and the robust (and public) responses from the RBI and the finance minister offer…
Mumbai?s cinematic dream factory is older than Hollywood, but has long been dwarfed by it. Although India?s film industry recently…
Three years ago, Nicholas Carr argued, in a Harvard Business Review piece with that title, that ?IT Doesn?t Matter.? What…
One way to put India into perspective for those in the West is to point out that India?s states have…
In Hollywood horror movies, the monster often appears to die, only to unexpectedly (if we don?t know how long the…
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh?s call last month for a roadmap to full capital account convertibility (CAC) has generated a torrent…
India?s nuclear deal with the US, now before the Senate and House of Representatives, is a milestone of diplomacy for…
Information technology (IT) has created new markets, allowed firms to unbundle and outsource as never before, and, less visibly to…
The pattern of India?s strong growth since the 1990s has raised somewhat of a puzzle for economists. At least since…
The year is coming to a close, with the world economy having dodged several bullets: natural disasters, terrorist attacks and…
