As inflation had increased by two percentage points since the last policy -although below the target of four per cent –no one seriously expected the inflation targeting…
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By Ajit Ranade |
A unified tax structure, direct linkage of farmers to buyers, attack on black money, financial inclusion, move toward a less-cash economy are all steps toward a more…
By Arun Maira |
India’s history is a composition of many histories. Any attempt to impose a single vision of India’s history is a fool’s game. It will create divisions within people, as…
By Arun Maira |
A clutter of branded schemes with catchy acronyms will not grow more jobs. A ‘systems view’ is required to connect many parts of the system and many policies—for…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
While it is gratifying to see an obnoxious media person being caught out and go down, there is the larger and more difficult case that must be argued in the midst of…
By T C A Raghavan |
The Trump broadside has left many in Pakistan shaken but such pressures are intrinsically not new. It is evident that after some initially strong statements in response…
By Ajit Ranade |
There is a lot to do on reforms in the process of clearances, dispute settlement, getting credit and taxation. Also, there is the farm sector, which is suffering from…
The fact that India stands out as a country with one of the highest increases in the top one per cent income share concentration over past 30 years should lead to some…
By Haresh Jagtiani |
Chipping away at the periphery of a person’s lifestyle would be the surest way to strike at the core of his being. And since the periphery is a mere extension of the…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
Neither RBI's annual reports nor the six-monthly reports on forex reserves disclose any useful information on portfolio and risk management of forex reserves. RBI…
By Arun Maira |
Whistle blowers are hardly popular with the institution they warn. They may sound too critical of, and even dis-loyal to the institution. The institution, and even the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Infosys has been the crown jewel of the Indian corporate sector, a mascot for growth driven by values. The story of how the founders and particularly N R Narayana Murthy…
If one accepts IIM-A surveys, then the pressure is on the RBI to prove that its surveys are better. This is a technical challenge the RBI has to resolve independent of…
It is not inflation control per se which is important but the anchoring of inflation expectations when it comes to public policy in general and monetary policy in…
By Ajit Ranade |
The many analysts and experts who are scrutinizing the company threadbare, need to ask themselves: do they apply even ten percent of that attention to examine other…