Bibek Debroy
The Indian Express Group
Tuesday 7 July '09
Outside the Congress party and its allies, no one seems to like Pranab Mukherjee’s Budget, apart from those who gain...Friday 3 July '09
The Delhi High Court judgment on Section 377 and the Economic Survey surfaced on the same day.Wednesday
1 July '09Imagining Mamata Banerjee’s Railway Budget, to be presented in Parliament this week...Tuesday
30 June '09Annual budget-making exercises are characterised by hype and media and other attention.Monday
29 June '09'It is also not practical to invite foreign universities here when our own universities are in bad shape.'Wednesday
24 June '09The economy is more affected by spread of rains across region and time, rather than aggregate precipitation.Tuesday
23 June '09There are legitimate expectations that the human resource development ministry will now deliver....Tuesday
16 June '09There is a rather odd interview Anand Sharma has given to Reuters.Monday
15 June '09There are a few historians in North Block. So it is doubtful that financial sector policy-makers will be familiar with a murder case that rocked Kolkata in 1873.Tuesday
9 June '09Here is a quote. “There is need for carrying out organisational changes in the existing set-up of the machinery of government.Monday
8 June '09“The Indian National Congress recognises the imperative of police reforms....."Monday
1 June '09After Mandate 2009, a post-mortem thesis has emerged. The Congress won because of its focus on aam aadmi, because India wasn't shining everywhere, and because NREGS and farmers' debt relief found resonance.Friday
29 May '09Why s/he will be well-served by direct cash transfers instead of the current subsidiesMonday
25 May '09Did the PM express reservations against including A Raja and T R Baalu in his council of ministers?Saturday
23 May '09Why the track record of UPA-I tempers hopes about UPA-IITuesday
19 May '09There are different layers in euphoria over the 2009 election mandate and not all of it is economic.Sunday
17 May '09Bengal’s long Left nightmare might be endingWednesday
13 May '09The issue of backlog in India’s courts has been discussed threadbare. What needs to be done to reduce backlog and improve speed of dispute-resolution is also known.Tuesday
5 May '09There is no easy geographical matching of constituencies with districts, with data usually available for the latter, not the former.Wednesday
29 April '09The National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector didn’t start it, but it was responsible for a factoid being quoted widely. “At the end of 2004-05, about 836 million or 77 per cent of the population was living below Rs 20 per day.”Thursday
23 April '09Who will rule India, and will they undertake economic reform? An anecdotal forecastSunday
19 April '09Financial ruminations over forty years.Tuesday
14 April '09Forget SP’s mess, take the three main manifestos, and the overlap is frighteningSaturday
11 April '09Bibek Debroy In December 2000, General Assembly asked Secretary General to prepare a roadmap for implementing this declaration.Saturday
4 April '09Bibek Debroy On public policy, there are three clear lessons. First, create fiscal space when going is good. We are in a mess because we didn't do that between 2003-04 and 2007-08.
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