Miami Airport?s employees are taking classes in customer service from Disney, which is an incredibly bright bulb idea.
Delhi?s airport underwent a high profile and contested hand-over to private management. So, it?s no surprise that consumer dissatisfaction should…
That the Union finance ministry and petroleum ministry have different figures on under-recovery by oil marketing companies is a perfect…
The distance between the place of business of a BC and the base branch, ordinarily, should not exceed 15 km…
One of my young colleagues, Pete Leeson, has his research discussed in Boston Globe. Leeson makes clear that pirates on…
Prime lending rates haven?t gone up following RBI?s squeeze through CRR, but sub-PLR rates are being hiked by banks, and…
Instead of despairing, why the rupee is not being allowed by RBI to appreciate, we have to now ask why…
It is good that America is giving India a waiver from the NPT. Yet, several aspects of the NPT need…
Homi Jehangir Bhabha, the Indian physicist, had stayed in Europe before World War II, and made important discoveries about cosmic…
A 73-month low, lowest since March 2002?that?s where the Index of Industrial Production, at 3% for March 2008, stands.
India has 6,00,000 villages and 45,000 rural bank branches. Obviously, this is not enough; 60% of India?s rural population doesn?t…
Public sector undertakings in India have always been under fire for poor financial performance. Their supporters, however, have persisted with…
It is always refreshing to hear economists with a healthy disdain for statistics. Or at least some kinds of statistics.…
One of the first things the UPA government had to consider when it assumed office is whether and by how…
With crude oil price soaring beyond $122 per barrel and showing ascendent trends, it is depressing that electric car manufacturing…
Tom, my PhD thesis adviser at Harvard, received the Nobel Prize in economics for the originality and impact of his…
In 2006, when prices were accelerating, every month the Union finance ministry played out a game of cut and snip.
Ever since the erstwhile development financial institution, IDBI, got converted into a banking company and the subsequent merger of the…
