The writer is chairman, Teamlease Services.

October 01, 2020 03:02 IST
The recent reform is substantial but must be followed by civil service, banking, compliance, decentralisation, and urban reform.
Thu, Oct 01, 2020
September 03, 2020 03:21 IST
Let's ignore the breathless demands for the government to borrow 10 lakh crore by stealing from our grandchildren. Let’s, instead, create climate change for our entrepreneurs, firms, and citizens with reforms that will give them economic Poorna Swaraj.
Thu, Sep 03, 2020
August 07, 2020 03:00 IST
Manish Sabharwal writes: God willing, we won’t test the RBI’s COVID worst-case scenario of 14.7 per cent bad loans but handling the inevitable COVID bank pain needs resisting short-termism. In the long run, we are not all dead.
Fri, Aug 07, 2020
July 09, 2020 03:19 IST
India’s current gap between the digitisation of the private sector and government often reflects the 1972 Dandekar Committee recommendation that no entity install a computer without first “justifying” its use to employees and their trade unions.
Thu, Jul 09, 2020
June 15, 2020 04:20 IST
Education reforms are an endeavour of profound optimism but have been stifled by purists, vested interests, and regulators. It is illogical to deny the poorna swaraj that comes with the Institutes of Eminence tag to Ashoka University and Ahmedabad University or pursue regulation-driven standardisation for our 993 universities.
Mon, Jun 15, 2020
May 18, 2020 00:23 IST
The COVID-19 lockdown exposes how per capita GDP is more important for our citizens than total GDP.
Mon, May 18, 2020
May 02, 2020 03:45 IST
The RBI must remember three things — acting prudently to balance the next quarter and quarter century, acting flexibly to blunt this economic cataclysm, and acting within their mandate to ensure institutional legitimacy and immunity.
Sat, May 02, 2020
April 06, 2020 03:00 IST
April 15 and May 1 are important milestones for employers and economic policy. The lockdown’s continuance, partial lifting or end must be decided on purely medical grounds (even though it turns out epidemiologists are like economists — they don’t agree with their past selves or each other).
Mon, Apr 06, 2020
February 07, 2020 02:10 IST
There is more work to be done. The central government must deadline digitising all its payments. The RBI must implement the 100-plus action items arising from its own Vision 2021 document and the Nandan Nilekani Committee for Deepening Digital Payments.
Fri, Feb 07, 2020
December 23, 2019 04:00 IST
Why is the GDP of 1.3 billion Indians less than 126 million Japanese, 83 million Germans and 40 million people in California? Why is India’s GDP today 20 per cent of China’s when they were equal in 1991? Why did the world’s largest democracy — created on the infertile soil of the world’s most hierarchical society — not create the world’s largest economy?
Mon, Dec 23, 2019
October 09, 2019 03:07 IST
The current economic slowdown is short-term pain for long-term gain because of overdue medicine.
Wed, Oct 09, 2019
August 06, 2019 00:30 IST
Kashmiris have been let down by a politics that doesn’t create economic opportunity.
Tue, Aug 06, 2019
June 28, 2019 00:20 IST
India’s policy choices around bankruptcy represent a rupture with the past. But there is work yet to be done
Fri, Jun 28, 2019
June 08, 2019 00:05 IST
Policy must pray to one god — formal jobs.
Sat, Jun 08, 2019
March 18, 2019 00:05 IST
India’s bad loan policy is finally moving in the right direction.
Mon, Mar 18, 2019
February 15, 2019 00:14 IST
India’s challenge is creating a complex ecosystem of high-productivity firms.
Fri, Feb 15, 2019
January 19, 2019 00:05 IST
The regulatory framework that has choked MSMEs has contributed to farm crisis and quota demands.
Sat, Jan 19, 2019
November 29, 2018 00:20 IST
Ease of doing business is more like Ludo. The detailed incremental improvements must be celebrated.
Thu, Nov 29, 2018
October 13, 2018 01:00 IST
It’s not a passing shower but climate change for banks. About time.
Sat, Oct 13, 2018
August 04, 2018 01:37 IST
State must be both — to tackle both corruption and poverty. Political parties must stop fighting yesterday’s wars
Sat, Aug 04, 2018
July 02, 2018 00:05 IST
A massive enterprise formalisation is taking place, and one year of GST has given the process a boost.
Mon, Jul 02, 2018
May 28, 2018 05:08 IST
Delhi’s move to introduce spoken English lessons for govt school students taps into a long-felt desire.
Mon, May 28, 2018
May 25, 2018 00:01 IST
The Bhushan case is a brick in the wall of a new corporate meritocracy where rule of law matters.
Fri, May 25, 2018
May 09, 2018 00:05 IST
We should judge Karl Marx not by his intentions but by the outcomes.
Wed, May 09, 2018
April 16, 2018 01:25 IST
Bankers’ demands for accounting forbearance are dangerous and self-serving.
Mon, Apr 16, 2018





