When Voters Return For A Second Helping

The revenue record

India works, look at the numbers

From the moon, two lessons for policymakers: First, taxpayers must get their money’s worth from govt-funded research. Second, recognise that honest failures are part of genuine pursuit of excellence

Their bhasha, their future

Blame it on fed and federal government: US bank failures – Europe may see similar troubles – are thanks to monetary/fiscal imprudence. And India should brace for aftershocks. Two analyses

Was Adani stock rise really a con? GoI’s ex-CEA & IMF’s Executive Director, India, argues a plausible explanation for the high market valuation was a combination of public capital spending and irrational exuberance

How Nirmala ticked all the boxes: Despite poll pressures, FM goes for growth, boosting both investment and consumption

A critique of India’s usual critics: The intelligentsia must recognise that political preferences influence their analysis more than they admit

The meaning of being fifth: Of all major economies India’s has been the least fiscally boosted and so most resilient now

What CJI must prioritise: Rescuing India from being at the bottom 15th percentile of all nations in ease of enforcement of contracts

Fuel: Truth about high-tax states – Why Maharashtra, MP, Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Bengal can & must cut duties

What Shane Warne revealed to us about the mind of a champion

A morality tale starring MSP and you: See how one inefficiency creates a cascade of inefficiencies and who picks up the tab

Great subterfuge of a vocal minority: They protect status quo, as the impoverished majority that will benefit big from reforms isn’t heard

Q1 lesson: This time it’s better – Economic recovery from pandemic much more robust than that after global financial crisis

In stimulus, the helping hand: FM’s policy of guaranteed loans to urban poor is superior to other welfare schemes

West cares only about itself: We don’t have to pay any attention to what the West is saying about us

Saving lives came first: Economic Survey establishes how India’s lockdown controlled Covid and will help in a V-shaped recovery

Why are farm bills opposed? Hostility is based on a discredited economic model that upholds vested interests

Celebrate, don’t mourn, S P Balasubrahmanyam

Evidence shows that GDP decline is due to COVID-19. Economy is recovering strongly in unlock phase

The government has made its move with the budget. Citizens must reciprocate

To regain age-old economic glory India needs to support both pillars of wealth creation: the invisible hand and hand of trust

Towards a $5 trillion economy: Economic Survey shows the way forward, private investment must be a key driver

Why the government cannot intervene if Jet Airways fails, or if mutual funds do badly

The real issue at hand is not solely of job creation but also of creation of quality jobs

The real bank crisis

Don’t witch hunt bankers: Prevention of Corruption Act must be speedily amended, else decision making will be frozen

Why did Centre doubt SC’s CAUVERY ORDER When it was crystal clear?

How to tackle bank fraud: PNB scam should pave the way to reforming the audit profession in India

The Cloning of India’s Public Sector Banks

Our focus was on boards, auditors, and the regulator

Lessons in Corporate Governance at Infosys

Time is ripe to reform governance of public sector banks

India Inc is better off avoiding the flawed US practice of unrealistically high CEO compensation. Here’s why?

Focusing on domestic growth

On a date with data mining?

Demonetisation: Are the poor really suffering?

Will Black Be Back? Why demonetisation will be revolutionary in India’s fight against corruption

Jungle Raj In UP: What do crime data tell us about the record of successive state governments?

If Ratan Tata doesn’t give his successor a free hand, his insecurity may become his worst enemy

Designing your bonus – Why Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom won the Nobel for their work in contract theory

For A Banking Renaissance

Who will bell the cat of pseudo-socialism?

The teacher who was an RBI governor

In debt to dynastyd

Attacking our heroes: Raghuram Rajan played a spectacular innings but was phased out nevertheless

Economic growth & incumbency: How to keep your government

Regulating credit rating agencies

Evergreening by private sector banks

Improving governance in banks

A budget for Bharat

Retrieving black money: Stairway to tax havens

Tax Agri income for the benefit of small farmers

A startup warning

Forecasting the next crisis

Trickle up, not trickle down: Modi must focus on job growth for political success, GDP growth will be a byproduct

Leadership: An outcome of nature of nurture?

Consolidation should not be forced by BBB, govt

Bandhan bank strikes deal to raise Rs. 1500 crores

Fix public sector bank capitalisation to stabilise Indian economy

Who gains from freedom?

Money well spent

Expert hopes for Banking reforms in Budget

Fix the governance of public sector banks

Public sector bank reforms: How do you move if the cart’s before the horse?

Appointing a PSU bank chairman

Economics loses a creative thinker in Gary Becker’s death

Good economics is good politics

Much more needs to be done

An advantage in danger of vanishing

Foreign investors are welcome

Why taxing the rich more is inefficient

Losses from coal block allocation

Coal in the Earth’s womb, government’s false arguments

Why research that establishes causality is better than just correlation?

Reason to Suspect Quality of European Financial Stability Facility bonds

Class-action suits will help keeping the company management clean

The dangers of discretionary policy

Keynesianism rises from the dead

Two contrasting historical episodes

Rules vs. discretion in central banking

Grey hair’s back in fashion

Infrastructure holds the key to FDI

The search for an heir

When the tide goes out

A new dimension for learning

The global rush to privatise

Unlucky PSBs, some lucky farmers

Banking lessons from Canada

When in doubt, stay out

Malegam report to hurt microfinance

More Pain, Less Gain

Telangana state: Is there an economic rationale?

The Irish Question

Chronicle of a divorce foretold

Do labor laws hinder privatization?

Micro finance, macro objective

The Nobel and naukri.com

Improving Haryana’s land acquisition model

Even the Haryana land model is flawed

Give us a bloat-II

Give us a bloat-I

High-five the future-II

High-five the future-I

Curbing Corruption

How do Central Banks communicate-II

How do Central Banks communicate-I

What Apple says about innovation

When an FI is too big to fail

Competition leads to better education

Virtuous start-ups

The trouble with catching fraud

The reputation factor in business

Judging the odds correctly

The idiot box can emancipate

The human dimension of regulation

You are 100% wrong on 80% cut-off, minister

Will a super regulator be superior?

Who accounts for the accountants?

Is a super regulator a super idea?

Can we sue, please?

Will IFRS stop cooking of books?

Making AI fly: get the price right

Here’s a plan for Air India that works

Air India can take lessons from the Alitalia fiasco