Bibek Debroy
The Indian Express Group
Friday 3 April '09
Advani speaks out against tax havens. First we need to get the figures rightMonday 30 March '09
Bibek Debroy The UTVI channel has used the RTI Act to collect data on income tax returns filed by political parties. The figures are sometimes for 2007-08, sometimes for 2008-09.Tuesday
24 March '09Bibek Debroy Using income, one way of defining middle class is in terms of how much of income is left over for discretionary expenditure, after paying for food and shelter.Monday
23 March '09Twenty blackbirds who won’t bake a pie: looking ahead to the G-20 meetMonday
16 March '09Economic and electoral data show why West Bengal is a key battleground stateSaturday
7 March '09Bibek Debroy We think of a good idea, mess up its implementation and then scrap the idea. The HRD Ministry's website has a list of 123 deemed universities.Saturday
7 March '09It’s manifesto time, parties will offer the moon. They need to identify low-hanging fruitSunday
1 March '09Bibek Debroy Every non-government economist is certain to say - we told you so. The CSO’s advance estimate of real GDP growth for 2008-09 was 7.1%.Saturday
21 February '09There are reasons to object to Academy Awards. Though contemporary in style, the statuette has a knight holding a crusader’s sword.Tuesday
17 February '09Bibek Debroy One of the problems with budget figures is one never directly obtains government projections about GDP.Tuesday
17 February '09There must have been pressure to tinker with tax rates. It was rightly resistedTuesday
10 February '09Worried about getting into a good college? Here’s why....Friday
6 February '09Bibek Debroy Towards the end of February, CSO will disseminate figures for Q3 of 2008-09 and one will know how bad the slowdown really is.Thursday
5 February '09Why don’t the poor opt for existing I-card systems?Wednesday
4 February '09Bibek Debroy The Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) has said there will be 10 million job losses in the export sector by March.Saturday
24 January '09The Indian legal system, with an inordinate time taken to resolve disputes, seems outlandish to most Americans.Friday
16 January '09India needs to get its fuel pricing right before oil prices start to rise againTuesday
6 January '09India might recover before the world does. But it will take time anywayFriday
26 December '08Best laws are self-enforcing, they create incentives to complyFriday
12 December '08Had fiscal reforms and rectitude characterised years of buoyant growth, life would have been different. But today, properly accounted deficits are at pre-1991 levelsFriday
21 November '08Seven 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 new jobs that aren’t going to be created, that’s also a support base for reforms that now disappearsFriday
14 November '08Perversely, in post-reform India, a premium on age has crept backSunday
9 November '08With typical wit and sarcasm, Jagdish Bhagwati comes down on preferential agreements that eat away at free tradeFriday
24 October '08Can Indian politics work out tactics for pro-incumbency?Thursday
16 October '08Making sense of Indian history with his Nobel-winning economic work
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