The writer, a former Union minister, is an economist.
January 28, 2009 13:09 IST
Yoginder K Alagh | CHARWAK<br> Goldman Sachs produced a model where economic growth is driven by the demand of an expanding and younger workforce.
Wed, Jan 28, 2009January 27, 2009 02:05 IST
Saurashtra,Punjab are doing well,in two different ways
Tue, Jan 27, 2009January 22, 2009 14:28 IST
Yoginder K. Alagh | CHARWAK<br>There is palpable change in India. The new generation performs and demands better performance. It does well in sports and in the economy.
Thu, Jan 22, 2009January 19, 2009 01:07 IST
Can we set world standards without a public ethics of our own?
Mon, Jan 19, 2009January 05, 2009 04:49 IST
Stimulus package aside,escaping meltdown requires real reform
Mon, Jan 05, 2009
November 30, 2005 00:00 IST
When one set of instruments fails, to some the answer is to have more of the same—only larger, bigger and deadlier. I always dread thos...
Wed, Nov 30, 2005
November 16, 2005 00:00 IST
India's rural world is changing. Not everywhere and perhaps not as fast as we want it too, but it is changing—and for the better. In 19...
Wed, Nov 16, 2005
November 03, 2005 00:00 IST
This column has been at the forefront in critiquing the lack of coherent domestic framework of macroeconomic policies for a profitable agric...
Thu, Nov 03, 2005
October 19, 2005 00:00 IST
A few kilometers away from Kohima, on the Hill Road to Mukokchung, is the village of Merema. After the rains the hills have an ethereal qual...
Wed, Oct 19, 2005
October 05, 2005 00:00 IST
Some of the large branches of the earlier reaches of the Sardar Sarovar Main Canal and the entire canal systems of the Ken Betwa system in t...
Wed, Oct 05, 2005
September 21, 2005 00:00 IST
We eroded existing institutions, globalised without homework and paid for it by a reversal in diversified and spread out agricultural growth...
Wed, Sep 21, 2005
September 09, 2005 00:00 IST
From Beawer, as you go down the National Highway, you turn for Masuda. Around 11 kilometres from the National Highway is the village of Andh...
Fri, Sep 09, 2005
August 24, 2005 00:00 IST
The employment guarantee scheme is caught in religious debates in Delhi. According to one canonical proposition, an employment guarantee is ...
Wed, Aug 24, 2005
August 10, 2005 00:00 IST
When you get a headache because of urban venality — garbage, meaningless violence, (someone abused me for not blowing the horn of my ca...
Wed, Aug 10, 2005
July 27, 2005 00:00 IST
The last time we had talked of the importance of nuclear energy cooperation with the Americans and the compulsions of a trading agriculture ...
Wed, Jul 27, 2005
July 13, 2005 00:00 IST
In January this year and mid-last year, this column had alerted its readers to the fact that India is the fourth largest economy of the worl...
Wed, Jul 13, 2005
June 29, 2005 00:00 IST
The first National Development Council (NDC) has been appraised of the progress in the Five Year Plan. The Indian economy is growing fast an...
Wed, Jun 29, 2005
June 15, 2005 00:00 IST
Chinchpur and Aurungpur are two villages in the Sangamner taluka of Nagar district. They both lie in the rain-shadow region of the Shayadhri...
Wed, Jun 15, 2005
June 01, 2005 00:00 IST
This column has argued that in the periods when it did well (1975/89) Indian agriculture was increasingly demand driven, with grains growing...
Wed, Jun 01, 2005
May 18, 2005 00:13 IST
Satyen Pitroda has been asked to head a new knowledge commission. There was great excitement when he installed the first Centre for Developm...
Wed, May 18, 2005
May 04, 2005 00:00 IST
The ‘Bihar flood scam’ that the Express has been highlighting, shows the disconnect between policy, governance and knowledge. The ...
Wed, May 04, 2005
April 20, 2005 00:00 IST
In January this year, some of the country’s most experienced experts and activists met at the Bopal facility of Anil Shah’s Develo...
Wed, Apr 20, 2005
April 06, 2005 00:00 IST
In July 1989 at the instance of the then prime minister the Planning Commission had presented a report on Agro-Climatic Planning, which went...
Wed, Apr 06, 2005
March 23, 2005 00:00 IST
Two encouraging reports were the statement of government intentions that the age of entry to the twice born in the higher central services w...
Wed, Mar 23, 2005
March 09, 2005 00:00 IST
The best part of the Budget is to begin for the country — a transition to a modern fiscal state. The Kelkar tax reforms leading to a ta...
Wed, Mar 09, 2005




