Tilting the odds

Other mega-investors take care to watch the intricate Ps and Qs of Indian policy while putting down money. South Korean…

No need to flinch

Another Indian infrastructure project is in trouble. This time, the crisis concerns finding funds for the proposed dedicated railway freight…

Unsung enterprise

The NSSO findings on India?s unregistered manufacturing sector, released earlier this week, highlight the slow pace of change in this…

Everest idols

Idols fever is about to take over everybody in South Africa, and as we all know, Idols generates a frenzy…

Winograd?s whine

The Winograd commission report that criticised Israel?s 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon as a ?large and serious? failure, is…

Tale of propensities

The recent numbers on consumption spending in India brought out by the Central Statistical Organisation show how rapid economic growth…

Bar policy imports

India?s recent experience validates the ?impossible trinity? you refer to in your editorial. An open capital account with a pegged…

Growth legitimacy

The latest employment figures thrown up by the National Sample Survey Organisation, with data for 2005-06, raise troubling questions.

Capital controls

The Indian impulse is to resist either-or trade-offs of the sort that economists like to pose. Inflation, thus, is sought…