Like many others, I was in Davos last week. Over its 38 years, the World Economic Forum has grown from…
The year 2007 will gladden the hearts of economic policy makers. The year ends on a high note of continued…
The recent annual meeting of the CII has somewhat overtaken the debate on evaluating the three years? performance of the…
The right to access to clean drinking water is fundamental to life and there is a duty on the state…
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that the Himalayan glaciers are melting, with dire long-term consequences for water…
Two words?land acquisition?invoke a torrent of controversy. The dry phrase conjures up stymied infrastructure plans, months of political wrangling over…
A Stanford-India Mirror Conference took place in Patna this week. It was part of the state government?s programme of confronting…
Tokyo continues to be my favourite city. Every visit, including one last week, reinforces this feeling. The UBS Asian Investors…
Special purpose vehicles (SPV) are currently in fashion as innovative means for catalysing investment, particularly in infrastructure. With $350 billion…
The recent assessment report of the United Nation?s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate dispels any lingering doubts. It draws on new…
The proposed restructuring of the Accelerated Power Development and Reform Programme (APDRP) is both timely and necessary. We all know…
?It is not the policies that are failing so much as the machinery for implementing them.? ? The Economist This…
All great civilisations tend to be superstitious. Chinese astrology predicts that the Year of the Boar brings a good business…
Talk of the renaissance of Nalanda is gathering momentum. Plans for the university have been discussed at high-level meetings between…
While much of India?s media and policy debate focuses on private infrastructure providers, most of the country?s roads, ports, airports,…
As a run up to the 11th Plan, there are multiple accounts that India’s drive to upgrade its infrastructure is…
India was a latecomer in the global mobile phone expansion, but it is now the world?s fastest growing telecom market.…
Given the euphoria of Diwali celebrations, any suggestions to focus on risks would be a melancholic pursuit. The current economic…
