The writer is professor, Department of Economics, University of Warwick, UK
March 11,2015 00:00:36 AM
There were complex and conflicting demands on the budget. It resisted the temptation to take the blatantly populist route.
December 17,2014 00:06:08 AM
The Planning Commission has increasingly become an anachronistic behemoth, although it did play a crucial role in the initial years.
July 24,2014 00:16:50 AM
The PPP approach, for instance, hasn’t taken off in India so far. How can that be remedied?
April 17,2014 00:09:27 AM
The UPA has done well to bring rights-based social welfare schemes to the forefront.
October 05,2013 00:22:30 AM
Using the Rajan index to fix allocations will distort states incentives
September 05,2013 00:15:46 AM
New RBI governor must change policy. Government must also get its act together.
July 25,2013 05:13:04 AM
What caused the steep fall in poverty reported by the Planning Commission? The evidence is mixed
June 28,2013 01:05:52 AM
A shale oil and gas revolution will lower energy costs,rearrange global geopolitical equations
May 27,2013 04:04:39 AM
An insistence on uniformity and a mechanical imposition of rules are weakening the university system
April 09,2013 00:20:52 AM
As regional parties demand radical changes for greater fiscal decentralisation
March 07,2013 03:17:23 AM
In this economic,political climate,the budget couldnt have announced big bang reforms
