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Yoginder K Alagh
The writer, a former Union minister, is an economist.
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No return to the Liberal HourSubscriber Only
March 10, 2004 00:00 IST
John Kenneth Galbraith described the weeks before the US presidential elections as the Liberal Hour. Once upon a time candidates would embar...
Wed, Mar 10, 2004The village that made itSubscriber Only
February 24, 2004 00:00 IST
Last time in these columns we talked of the need to link our villages with the Indian birds in the skies and how satellite communication wou...
Tue, Feb 24, 2004Digital traffic: the last mileSubscriber Only
February 10, 2004 00:00 IST
We have decided, it seems, to send another woman or man to the moon. There is a point in proving to the world that we can do it, but the moo...
Tue, Feb 10, 2004The great growth debateSubscriber Only
February 03, 2004 00:00 IST
When the great snowstorms envelop the northern hemisphere, a particular species of birds migrate to India amongst other places. Rathi Kant B...
Tue, Feb 03, 2004Fight elections on real issuesSubscriber Only
January 13, 2004 00:00 IST
Economists are trained in a real dismal world where there are no free lunches. Their mindset is dissonant with short run electoral politics....
Tue, Jan 13, 2004Swim out of ghost watersSubscriber Only
December 30, 2003 00:00 IST
Sardar Sarovar is a fascinating controversy; not in reality but in the world of ideas. There was a feeling that now that the water has start...
Tue, Dec 30, 2003This harvest of shortagesSubscriber Only
December 16, 2003 00:00 IST
In the few villages I visited recently, complaints on the power situation were more vociferous than usual. These were admittedly in western ...
Tue, Dec 16, 2003Sail with the trade windsSubscriber Only
December 02, 2003 00:00 IST
It is wrong to say that India and its friends were against trade at Cancun. In fact, the problem in trade negotiations has arisen because th...
Tue, Dec 02, 2003Nomads nudge the world to move onSubscriber Only
November 18, 2003 00:00 IST
Indian peasants have together constituted one of the most enduring forms of economic organisations the world has known. Rajas, sultans and f...
Tue, Nov 18, 2003Technology is a cultureSubscriber Only
November 04, 2003 00:00 IST
There are some people who act as if economic policies, and particularly technological change, which is spawning some of our great success st...
Tue, Nov 04, 2003Watering down a water planSubscriber Only
October 21, 2003 00:00 IST
The watershed development movement in India gathered steam in the mid-eighties. In the beginning, the nation used canal-based irrigation as ...
Tue, Oct 21, 2003Reform has to be transparentSubscriber Only
October 07, 2003 00:00 IST
It cannot be anybody’s case that economic reform would not include a policy of reforming the public sector. But the kind of knee jerk r...
Tue, Oct 07, 2003At last, a refinancing harvestSubscriber Only
September 23, 2003 00:00 IST
An interesting change taking place in Indian agriculture is on the financing side. The central bank, as is well known, had a preoccupation w...
Tue, Sep 23, 2003Towards a Cancun harvestSubscriber Only
September 09, 2003 00:00 IST
What suggestions do we have for our negotiators at Cancun? It is not enough to prepare the terrain in terms of the arguments used by our int...
Tue, Sep 09, 2003Cancun demands leadershipSubscriber Only
August 26, 2003 00:00 IST
From Ahmedabad, the road to Rajkot and to Vadodara, both National Highways, now four-laned, form a cone. On the way to Rajkot, you come to B...
Tue, Aug 26, 2003The price of powerSubscriber Only
August 12, 2003 00:00 IST
Electricity, water, fertiliser and seeds are the needs of a farmer. With bad roads and inadequate communication infrastructure, village mark...
Tue, Aug 12, 2003A strategy for CancunSubscriber Only
July 29, 2003 00:00 IST
As we go into the ministerial meeting in Montreal and the Cancun negotiations, the strategy India must follow becomes an urgent concern. Eve...
Tue, Jul 29, 2003Global plus local equals successSubscriber Only
July 15, 2003 00:00 IST
As we get into “large” projects, the issue of the global, local and national comes into focus. Take the Golden Quadrilateral, chan...
Tue, Jul 15, 2003If the rain gods don’t smile…Subscriber Only
July 01, 2003 00:00 IST
It is good that the agriculture minister took personal interest in the policies to help farmers cope with drought. Shortage of rain has affe...
Tue, Jul 01, 2003Linking rivers is a complex jobSubscriber Only
June 17, 2003 00:00 IST
Once the prime minister puts his tremendous powers behind an idea it becomes almost impossible to discuss it in business-like terms. It was ...
Tue, Jun 17, 2003In the east, bank on strategiesSubscriber Only
June 03, 2003 00:00 IST
The eastern region of the country shows many contradictions. There are growth areas which are no longer just pockets, but there are also are...
Tue, Jun 03, 2003On agriculture, think creativelySubscriber Only
May 20, 2003 00:00 IST
There is an underlying air of confidence in urban India. Two decades of continued growth has become a habit. Exporting industries are boomin...
Tue, May 20, 2003Planting new seeds in old mindsetsSubscriber Only
May 06, 2003 00:00 IST
At a meeting in Chandigarh where “senior” scientists were present, I was horrified to find that to a query on state-of-the-art see...
Tue, May 06, 2003Indian food for thoughtSubscriber Only
April 22, 2003 00:00 IST
There is a need for constant reappraisal of global pacts. This is so on account of the liberalisation policies the country has adopted and a...
Tue, Apr 22, 2003Poverty has many linesSubscriber Only
April 08, 2003 00:00 IST
The World Food Programme, Food and Agriculture Organisation and M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation planned a meeting on a road map for a h...
Tue, Apr 08, 2003Journalism of Courage
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