By the strangest of coincidences, the election forecast (for BJP and Congress alone) contained in my book Citizen Raj (and…
Opinions vary, but not the reality. 2014 election was contested around the economy—2019 election is being fought along similar lines.…
NSSO should be again made a leader in the provision and quality of statistics, as it was under the chairmanship…
Indian institutions are operating with the same mindset and technology and outlook that the pioneers did 70 years ago. But…
The Congress will succeed in political hara kiri—it would upset, and alienate, almost half the population, from the 21st to…
Congress consulted extensively with economists to define minimum income for NYAY—-all it did, really, was to update the tendulkar poverty…
On March 15, 2018, 108 economists and scientists released a letter titled, Economic Statistics in Shambles, published in the prestigious…
There is a change in the use of economic data since the 2014 election. Unlike before, misuse of economic data…
If the national partner is small and you are big (at a state level), it is a zero-sum game—the smaller…
By introducing a DBT for the farmer, the govt appears to have taken the first step towards dismantling the corrupt…
The downtrodden, especially those historically so, like Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, did deserve special consideration, and should have been…
India does not need 12 million jobs a year – it needs less than 5 million. A large part of…
Good economic policies like cash transfers help win elections. Appeasement of minorities and the majority hurts chances.
You expect more from those who deliver, and are disappointed when reality and expectations do not match. But does it…
All kinds of interpretations and conspiracy theories are floating around regarding the CSO release of the new GDP back-series for…
In a modern middle-income fast growing economy high real interest rates hurt the economy—and the people.
The real question, which I will address in this and a subsequent article, is whether RBI’s policy on very high…
Conventional wisdom of no job growth in 2017/18 is found to be a gross under-estimate by a correct interpretation of…
