Vijay Kelkar is former Finance Secretary.
November 27,2020 03:02:45 AM
Indian capitalism has long been stigmatised because of the murky two-way relationship between the state and industrial capital. If the line between industrial and financial capital is erased, this stigma will only become worse.
March 01,2006 02:07:53 AM
In the Budget speech, Finance Minister P Chidambaram has set a 2010 date for the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST). This is f...
February 22,2006 00:00:00 AM
The most memorable budget speeches are those that are animated by a single big idea. Manmohan Singh did that with economic reforms. Chidamba...
February 28,2005 00:00:00 AM
Where do we go next in Indian finance? We have been converting 23 per cent investment into 6 per cent growth. A better financial sector will...
November 20,2004 00:00:00 AM
One slogan of the Internet age is, the Internet changes everything. A similar dictum applies in economics: globalisation changes everything....
July 08,2004 01:47:14 AM
A major problem that India faces is the large cross-sectional dispersion in economic development. There is a roughly 3:1 ratio in the per ca...
