Bibek Debroy
Seven per cent GDP growth means 10.5 million new jobs a year; nine per cent GDP growth means 12 million new jobs a year. That’s not just 1.5 million n
Perversely, in post-reform India, a premium on age has crept back
With typical wit and sarcasm, Jagdish Bhagwati comes down on preferential agreements that eat away at free trade
Can Indian politics work out tactics for pro-incumbency?
Making sense of Indian history with his Nobel-winning economic work
The NREGS gives us the best census of who and where the poor are
Thomas Friedman gives his prescription for saving the planet from apocalypse — technological innovation. And how only a green nation can be the next s
India is at a cusp. More accurately, it is at what mathematicians call a point of inflection.
Transaction costs keep FDI out. They also hurt India’s mallest businesses
Why is it that India still awaits a proper central bank?
Whatever the measurement, India is less poor. But donors are incentivised to overestimate poverty
Want Olympic champions? Make it an unsentimental private business project
We excel in our indifference to national symbols. And always we blame the ‘system’
Measured in fatalities and injuries, the worst terrorist attacks have been in New York, Al-Qataniyah (Iraq), Al-Adnaniyah...
Never was a farce enacted for the entertainment of so many by so few. “Then he goes on to quote the well-known...
The Fund for Peace and Foreign Policy have released the 2008 version of the Failed States Index.
If we choose the governments we deserve, it would help to know more about candidates
Help workers to know jobs are available and decide on temporary or permanent migration
Remember Brazil in ’80s, when shops listed ‘today’s rate’, to appreciate why India can avoid panic
Twenty-two times the PM told us subsidy needs reform. How many reforms have we seen?
CPM’s Central Committee blames alliance with UPA and UPA’s policies, particularly those on inflation, for the panchayat election outcome.
It is a good sign if people want to migrate to India, but monitor it
Karnataka’s capital has money, ideas and citizens’ support for change. Will elections change its politics?
One of the brains behind Delhi’s BRTS (bus rapid transit system) has temporarily had to relinquish the privilege of driving...
In this talk of price rise, how come no one mentions the Competition Commission?
