It is good to see performance in the economy, and the Economic Survey, as well as the finance minister?s speech,…
Among the more interesting issues that the finance minister would be addressing in this Budget would be the tariff regime…
Last Tuesday, the Cabinet announ-ced FDI liberalisations in a slew of sectors. The decisions were timed to catch the attention…
The Red Queen advised Alice: ?If you don?t know where you are going, any road will take you there.? The…
The draft report of the expert committee on integrated energy policy has been put out by the Planning Commission for…
The media and the government breathed a sigh of relief that the agony of the Hong Kong WTO ministerial is…
The draft ministerial text put out by the director-general of the WTO, Pascal Lamy, last week only reinforces the limited…
The initial government decision to get PSU oil companies to buy shares in each other had two objectives?one was to…
The media has had a handful of stories in the past couple of weeks covering politics, elections, monetary policy initiatives,…
A recent survey in the Financial Times on investing in China makes interesting reading. It quotes from Joe Studwell?s book,…
The recently published World Development Report 2006 revisits some of the concerns of development. Following closely on the heels of…
It has been an eventful fortnight, a range of issues attracting international attention. The survey published by the International Finance…
The Indian Prime Minister?s announcement on purchase of aircraft by Indian Airlines worth $2.2 billion from Airbus Industrie, was timed…
There is an interesting change in the past year and a half in the economic dailies. The newspapers are much…
Sixty-six dollars a barrel is a price we have never seen before for crude oil, and the near term projections…
The difficulty of examining the recent Indo-US agreement on the peaceful use of nuclear energy is not one of perception…
Last week, the committee on ?Synergy in Energy? made its recommendations to the ministry of petroleum. The committee had been…
At the National University of Singapore, as visiting senior re-search fellow, there has been an opportunity to look at issues…
