Do you want to get a usable estimate of black money in the economy? For each state, subtract the circle…
Capital markets regulator Sebi is veering around to the idea of a consent order to settle charges of alleged insider…
Of the four states that came out of the election fever this weekend, the first priority of the new governments…
RBI governor D Subbarao?s statement on Monday against an independent profile for the debt management office has surprised finance ministry…
The changes in the macro-economic numbers over the past couple of weeks have been so unusual, rapid and drastic, the…
Between March 2010 and 2011, RBI raised the interest rates by 200 basis points. In response, in the same period,…
Pure reading pleasure is how I would like to describe An Economist?s Miscellany. It is a collection of brilliant short…
The slim 38-page report of the US Securities and Exchange Commission picks one clear line of reasoning, surrounds it with…
In 2010, FE carried a series on lobbying and its role in Indian policy making. The set of reports was…
The timing of the review of the Foreign Direct Investment Policy on Thursday is just right, but the frequency of…
Swatting fluffy ideas, Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee has crisp answers to most of the challenges thrown up by development economics.
Dr Parthasarathi Shome, has had an intense involvement with the finance ministry as advisor to the minister, in the planning…
On the face of it, the government is still to take a decision on whether it will want to issue…
The easy, almost languid way the sage of Omaha?Warren Buffett?has side-stepped the insurance firewall, which was crafted over almost 20…
India?s disinvestment mandate is running a big moral risk. The risk stems from the almost zero fees the disinvestment-led managers…
The Budget makers in Pranab Mukherjee?s team have shifted so many goal posts between now and the last fiscal year…
The finance ministry plans to phase out the varied looks of Indian currency notes by giving them a makeover.
What do reforms mean for India of 2011? Top of the list would be reconciling environment concerns with the demands…
