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Yoginder K Alagh
The writer, a former Union minister, is an economist.
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The Demographic DividendSubscriber Only
April 05, 2010 13:47 IST
I argued once that dividends are not automatic and come to the brave who have an operative view of social change and would stick to that.
Mon, Apr 05, 2010Still without perspectiveSubscriber Only
March 26, 2010 01:44 IST
The Plan appraisal should have ended our narrow sectoral vision....
Fri, Mar 26, 2010Financing the small guySubscriber Only
March 10, 2010 16:47 IST
An RBI group wants bank managers not to insist on collateral from small industrialists for loans to them.
Wed, Mar 10, 2010Nowhere to go but downSubscriber Only
March 09, 2010 01:30 IST
I like the Budget; but,frankly,am not very impressed by the specific agricultural proposals.
Tue, Mar 09, 2010Were all poor nowSubscriber Only
February 27, 2010 03:45 IST
You cannot both expand entitlements and the number of the poor....
Sat, Feb 27, 2010They call me a ‘technocrat’Subscriber Only
February 23, 2010 14:27 IST
In the context of the Bt brinjal controversy,I was again called a technocrat.
Tue, Feb 23, 2010The states are well off,but…Subscriber Only
February 12, 2010 18:05 IST
IN A recent professional meeting,Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said very correctly that the states had money and the problems lay elsewhere.
Fri, Feb 12, 2010The block blocSubscriber Only
February 12, 2010 03:24 IST
Delaying moves like Bt brinjal will grievously hurt farm growth
Fri, Feb 12, 2010The poor,and the growingSubscriber Only
February 09, 2010 21:46 IST
Following norms about nutrition for the poor does not require policy to go overboard. This point has been echoed by the Tendulkar Committees...
Tue, Feb 09, 2010The Rabi RevivalSubscriber Only
February 03, 2010 15:01 IST
With rice procurement at last year's level it is a great mystery why wheat is not being unloaded in the market in a big way.
Wed, Feb 03, 2010Drawing a new lineSubscriber Only
February 01, 2010 02:08 IST
Evaluating changes in how we count our poor
Mon, Feb 01, 2010Hope from Bangladesh: A secular subcontinentSubscriber Only
January 26, 2010 18:28 IST
The recent judgment by the Bangladesh Supreme Court last week in Dhaka as an operative secular democracy is terribly important and only a jaded elite tucked it away. The last of the Bismarckians thrive in the subcontinent and foreign policy treatments after the Fifties of the last century were not heard of. After dinner,Morgenthau and […]
Tue, Jan 26, 2010The old order passes awaySubscriber Only
January 20, 2010 20:56 IST
I remember Jyoti Basu as serious and reserved and yet a very warm and considerate human leader.
Wed, Jan 20, 2010Why not talk about growth?Subscriber Only
January 07, 2010 01:45 IST
As we enter a new year,we decided to do a job for old times sake. The Planning Commission will,I am sure,eventually review the Eleventh Plan.
Thu, Jan 07, 2010The Global SteeplechaseSubscriber Only
January 04, 2010 17:07 IST
A calculation was made that with a nine per cent growth rate in the meltdown years,China would overtake Japan and become the second largest economy of the world next to the US.
Mon, Jan 04, 2010Icons have many faces… one for each one of us!Subscriber Only
December 29, 2009 18:33 IST
The Foundations of Economic Analysis was a restatement of the unifying principles of Economics in a manner not known earlier,and swept many cobwebs away.
Tue, Dec 29, 2009Mantras and mythsSubscriber Only
December 19, 2009 03:01 IST
Food is a macro and not a supply-side inflation
Sat, Dec 19, 2009Hum HindustaniSubscriber Only
December 14, 2009 16:48 IST
A leader of a national political party was badly advised to take liberties with scientific facts in his interventions in the Lok Sabha.
Mon, Dec 14, 2009No such thing as a free glassSubscriber Only
December 11, 2009 03:10 IST
We say all the right things and do the wrong ones. Young Viral Dholakia,who died in a lathi-charge on protestors against water...
Fri, Dec 11, 2009The case for Sugar Cooperatives’ reformSubscriber Only
December 03, 2009 17:03 IST
Reform of the sector needs transparency,enforcement of prudential norms and effective governance.
Thu, Dec 03, 2009Moving beyond prelimsSubscriber Only
November 27, 2009 03:39 IST
Greshams Law says bad money drives out good money. Since I am an optimistic kind of blighter,Ive an Alagh law: good ideas eventually drive out bad ones. I once chaired a group which wrote a report on higher civil service recruitment and training. It took a year-and-a-half and the countrys best and brightest helped us. […]
Fri, Nov 27, 2009Bap Re. This InflationSubscriber Only
November 23, 2009 19:33 IST
Montek was right in saying that food prices will fall. But why does the housewife complain.
Mon, Nov 23, 2009No longer ship to mouthSubscriber Only
November 19, 2009 22:46 IST
Surprisingly,there was in the Indira Gandhi eulogies very little discussion on her food and agriculture policies apart from some acerbic non-factual diatribes.
Thu, Nov 19, 2009On Ignoring the Economics NobelSubscriber Only
November 11, 2009 16:21 IST
India's transition to a market economy in the late '80s and early '90s was commented upon in the writings of gurus like Wade,Taylor and the literature on strategic policy models like in Stopford's Carnegie Mellon paper.
Wed, Nov 11, 2009Indira and the First Energy CrisisSubscriber Only
November 03, 2009 16:43 IST
As India remembered Indira Gandhi,an astute commentator pointed out that half of India's current population was not there in her time.
Tue, Nov 03, 2009Journalism of Courage
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