Still smug about the high growth years?
Still smug about the high growth years?
Drop the euphoria for a moment – a third of India is seriously poor. And urban poverty has risen sharply
Ashoak Upadhyay
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A rough road indeed to acchhe din
A rough road indeed to acchhe din
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One regulator too many?
One regulator too many?
Raghuram Rajan is right in raising doubts about the need for a super-regulator in the financial sector
The ball is in the Government’s court
The ball is in the Government’s court
The RBI balanced both inflation and growth objectives by doing a minor SLR cut. How will fiscal policy respond?
Caught wrongfooted by change
Caught wrongfooted by change
Indians remain sandwiched between the whites and the blacks in post-apartheid South Africa
Is South Africa’s rainbow fading?
Is South Africa’s rainbow fading?
Celebrating twenty years of freedom, South Africans are wondering where and why things went wrong
The ideological clash within the UPA
The ideological clash within the UPA
The differences between Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandhi have far deeper historical roots than is apparent
Three cheers for democracy
Three cheers for democracy
The Lokpal Bill is the first step to clean governance. Next is devolution of powers.
We consume, therefore we are
We consume, therefore we are
All that the middle class wants is a centralised state that encourages growth. The ethics of this approach are not its concern.
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