Manish Sabharwal
The writer is chairman, Teamlease Services.
Sat, Jul 10, 2021
Governance must shift from control of resources to learning outcomes; learning design, responsiveness, teacher management, community relationships, integrity, fair decision making, and financial sustainability.
Wed, Jun 09, 2021
Thanks to these six factors, a new breed of entrepreneurs is participating in the recovery of the Covid-hit economy.
Wed, Apr 21, 2021
Touted as “employee welfare” schemes since the 1950s, both have failed their clients since birthing and in COVID.
Thu, Feb 18, 2021
Many students lack employability and workers lack productivity because learning is supply-driven. Learning-by-doing ensures demand-driven learning.
Tue, Feb 02, 2021
This budget reflects policymaking that is risk-taking and ambitious. More importantly, when seen with the three Covid mini-budgets and seven previous annual budgets, it reflects policymaking that is iterative.
Tue, Dec 08, 2020
The RBI working group challenges us to shift Indian banking to being open, big and inclusive from its current closed, small and exclusive form. No change is finalised, but let’s have an open debate without canceling the question.
Thu, Nov 12, 2020
Ant IPO drama exposes China's contradictions. As global economic gravity shifts to Asia, financial services entrepreneurs must be empowered to seize the opportunity
Wed, Oct 21, 2020
It sabotages economic justice because fiscally funding banking diverts money from education, health and skilling expenditure.
Thu, Oct 01, 2020
The recent reform is substantial but must be followed by civil service, banking, compliance, decentralisation, and urban reform.
Thu, Sep 03, 2020
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.
Fri, Aug 07, 2020
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.
Thu, Jul 09, 2020
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.
Mon, Jun 15, 2020
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, May 18, 2020
The COVID-19 lockdown exposes how per capita GDP is more important for our citizens than total GDP.
Sat, May 02, 2020
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.
Mon, Apr 06, 2020
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).
Fri, Feb 07, 2020
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.
Mon, Dec 23, 2019
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?
Wed, Oct 09, 2019
The current economic slowdown is short-term pain for long-term gain because of overdue medicine.
Tue, Aug 06, 2019
Kashmiris have been let down by a politics that doesn’t create economic opportunity.
Fri, Jun 28, 2019
India’s policy choices around bankruptcy represent a rupture with the past. But there is work yet to be done
Sat, Jun 08, 2019
Policy must pray to one god — formal jobs.
Mon, Mar 18, 2019
India’s bad loan policy is finally moving in the right direction.
Fri, Feb 15, 2019
India’s challenge is creating a complex ecosystem of high-productivity firms.
Sat, Jan 19, 2019
The regulatory framework that has choked MSMEs has contributed to farm crisis and quota demands.
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