There is an interesting debate on food security and we should get the Planning Commission?s perspective on this.

Land is in focus again. An initiative to eliminate the antiquated land revenue model, where ownership can be …

There has always been a question mark against the Tehri dam project. It was planned with Soviet assistance and they…

If agricultural output did not go down in a major drought, some big comments and questions should have been raised.

In the last three decades, we have had our share of droughts but low-growth years have been very few. In…

Capital formation in agriculture went down in the 1990s, first in the public sector and then in the private sector.

The laudable Leaders? 20 (L20) initiative, promoted by former Canadian PM Paul Martin, was started but never matured to…

A Cambridge economist, Maurice Dobb, had an interesting model of the errors of centralised policy where a dog chases a…

As the policies on better water management work themselves out and the larger sums of monies the UPA government is..

Work for the Ninth Plan was in full swing in the second half of the 1990s. The United Front governments…

Controversies around the Sardar Sarovar Project have continued for decades. So, when I recently wrote a piece on…

The PM?s express concern on energy and food security at the BRIC?s meeting last week is appropriate, given our national…

While a lot of money is being spent on agricultural projects, not much is seen in terms of outcomes in…

The commoditisation of higher education has many advantages and perhaps raises some questions for me?an economist who gets his pension…

The passing of the Women?s Reservation Bill by the Rajya Sabha is a once in a long time event. In…

The Budget for the year 2010-11 is a good budget. The macro strategy behind it is well thought out.