Inflation is undoubtedly the key concern in economic policy today. The inflation situation is worse than it appears, because of…
With the focus of World Environment Day 2008 on forest management as a tool for reducing greenhouse gases, it is…
In an inspiring TED talk [hyperlink], Paul Collier, Professor in Economics at Oxford University, makes the case how to give…
One of the most telling figures in Vijay Kelkar?s now-famous report on direct taxes, released in 2003, is to be…
It has been a month since the union government suspended futures trade in refined soya oil, potato, chickpea and rubber…
It is easy to identify an industry in crisis?when it starts asking the government for subsidies. The airline industry has…
One of the examples that comes up in the Robin Hanson podcast [hyperlink] concerns dating. If the point is to…
Oil politics is playing out in states now. State sales tax cuts are becoming contagious. So, it seems that, despite…
Gold always glitters?not just for Indian families who ascribe the metal almost spiritual qualities and still, on average, prefer the…
Time is the most precious resource of men and women, and even older children. This is why it is disturbing…
The oil sector has been viewed with much gloom in recent times. But problems in the downstream oil industry shouldn?t…
An emergency meeting of heads of government convened by the Food and Agriculture Organisation in Rome to address the specter…
What would happen if Chinese tastes changed and they drank as much wine per capita as the current world champions,…
The government?s much agonised decision over petrol price adjustment is, as expected, 20% economics and 80% politics. The price hikes…
The prime ministerial endorsement of the unsustainability of the current fuel price regime probably indicates political acceptance of the need…
That from a Times article [hyperlink] today, which opens with the observation that ?Donating $10 to buy a mosquito net…
India has been gaining an unusually good reputation this past decade?we are a democratic market economy which offers opportunity for…
Vedanta Resources? $2.6 billion takeover of Asarco Llc., a bankrupt copper miner located in the US, marks the first overseas…
