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By Arun Maira |
The inability to ‘pick winners’ with certainty in a dynamically changing world is the principal argument of liberal…
By Usha Thorat |
Given the global conditions, Fed rate hikes, capital outflows, elevated oil price rise, closing output gap, rising…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
MPC's unanimous decision for a rate hike that has come after a gap of more than four years took note of the…
The overall growth signals both from the demand side (consumption and investment) and supply side (agriculture,…
By Arun Maira |
The over-arching goal of a society should determine how trade must be regulated. If the over-arching goal of humanity…
By Usha Thorat |
Getting the inflation projection even nearly right is tough, especially when a huge component is food and fuel. Hence…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The central message flowing out of this survey is loud and clear: continuance of the neutral stance for some more…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Within a year, HLL was reporting losses for the first time in its history, sending a worried Chairman straight to New…
By Arun Maira |
It is unlikely that the conversion of publicly owned enterprises into privately owned ones will, by itself, reduce the…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
Clearly, in the hierarchy of preference of MPC, the need to support growth and investment ranked higher than the…
By Usha Thorat |
The real challenge for debt management will be to ensure that yields are not pushed up unduly, as this would have an…
By R Gopalakrishnan |
The Prime Minister now faces a Modi moment. India needs leadership to reach out and honestly attempt a rainbow effect…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
Its rural and social sector proposals, the most attention-catching and hotly-debated of which is the Rs. 5 lakhs a year…