Pranab Bardhan

The writer is professor of graduate school at the department of economics, University of California, Berkeley.

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Revdi or subsidy: The promise and perils of India’s cash-transfer programmesSubscriber Only

December 11,2024 13:53:27 PM

Current cash transfers are openly, ostentatiously, delivered as ‘gifts’ from the Prime Minister or Chief Minister. They replace the earlier social movement of looking upon transfers as basic citizen rights for which the rulers are to be accountable

Wed, Dec 11, 2024

Those who think growth will automatically solve the job problem overlook that 50 years of national surveys on employment and unemployment have made it clear that India’s job availability has not, in general, kept pace with the rate of economic growth.

Welfarism is not the solution for India’s job problem, skill creation isSubscriber Only

July 09,2024 07:48:04 AM

For sustainable and lasting growth in jobs, mass-scale educational vocational services, wage subsidies, and technological assistance are required

Tue, Jul 09, 2024

Why and how the focus of our industrial policy needs to shiftSubscriber Only

November 19,2022 07:20:53 AM

Pranab Bardhan writes: Support for industrial policy has to be nuanced, multi-faceted and vigilant in its disciplining functions. It must focus on small and medium-scale firms, encourage green products and services to generate jobs.

Sat, Nov 19, 2022

Opposition parties must assert civic nationalism against narrow, intolerant nationalismSubscriber Only

October 11,2021 03:02:18 AM

Pranab Bardhan writes: They must give up their silence and stop peddling soft Hindutva, which has only earned them contempt and ridicule.

Tue, Oct 12, 2021

Lockdown trade-offs in a young country call for wide public deliberationSubscriber Only

April 08,2020 01:14:42 AM

One needs more systematic thinking about the hard choices India now faces — the trade-offs between the lockdown paralysing the economy and decimating the poor on the one hand, and on the other, lifting the lockdown thereby allowing the infection rate to soar, and taking a heavy toll on the old.

Wed, Apr 08, 2020

India is steadily creeping from democracy to some form of thugocracySubscriber Only

January 18,2020 01:15:28 AM

The essence of democracy is in protecting minority rights. India is failing to do so

Sat, Jan 18, 2020

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Attempts are being made to dismantle the pluralistic ideas of India that are a legacy of Gandhi and TagoreSubscriber Only

October 12,2019 00:06:38 AM

Our identities are necessarily multi-layered but ethnic nationalists privilege one of these layers, usually based on the narrow particularities of religion, language or culture that makes it easy to mobilise certain groups.

Sat, Oct 12, 2019

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India has gone from false hopes in 2014 to false pride in 2019Subscriber Only

June 15,2019 00:35:31 AM

India has gone from false hopes in 2014 to false pride in 2019

Sat, Jun 15, 2019

PM Modi’s Balakot remark prima facie violation: Poll officer

‘Anti-national’ thoughtsSubscriber Only

April 10,2019 00:05:37 AM

Whichever party wins the election, the real long-term challenge is to stem the rot of institutional foundations.

Wed, Apr 10, 2019

Gujarat budget session: GSFC losses pile up to Rs 2,500 crore

Universal Basic Income can be funded by reducing subsidies to the richSubscriber Only

January 16,2019 00:02:54 AM

I think packaging a significant UBIS with a simultaneous increase in the taxes on the rich will help macro-economic stability, apart from assuaging the poor who will face some of the price rise in commodities or services, when subsidies are withdrawn.

Wed, Jan 16, 2019

India is creating fewer jobs for world’s biggest workforce

The safety net of the futureSubscriber Only

December 28,2018 00:43:33 AM

In recent times both BJP (around election time in UP and Maharashtra) and Congress (in Punjab, and now Rajasthan, MP and Chhattisgarh) have rushed to the fire of farmer wrath with wild schemes of bank loan waivers. This is, of course, a bad idea not just because it plays havoc with the banking culture (just as that of loan waivers for corporate defaulters does).

Fri, Dec 28, 2018