Ila Patnaik
The Indian Express Group
Sunday 17 September '06
Greater financial integration with the world is a given, but India’s flexibility will define the transition, Ila Patnaik reports from the IMF-World Bank annual meet in SingaporeSaturday 16 September '06
While India may score high with the World Bank on growth, the story on governance is very different.Friday
15 September '06In perfect sync with the timing of our recent report on capital account convertibility, policy makers, private sector leaders...Friday
15 September '06Does a trade agreement between India, Brazil and South Africa make economic sense?Monday
4 September '06PM must set up another committee to get a convertibility roadmapThursday
31 August '06Montek Singh says getting money for planned programmes is much more important than fiscal responsibility, but unless the Planning Commission recognises that the problem is not lack of funding, but of accountability, we will just be throwing more good money after badMonday
21 August '06RBI says Naina Lal Kidwai’s case is one of conflict of interest. Look who’s talkingTuesday
15 August '06Admitting that current programmes of education and health care have failed is a step in the right directionWednesday
2 August '06Infrastructure upgrade means govt will need to acquire land to add value. How best can this be done?Thursday
27 July '06The argument to abandon the restraint the FRBM Act places on government is unwise because inflation is just one danger of large fiscal deficitFriday
21 July '06Pension reform can make sixth pay panel awards attractive. You know who’s holding it upMonday
10 July '06The new LDF government in Kerala presented Budget 2006-07 for the state with a sharp rise in spending. Revenue expenditure is budgeted to increase from an average of 16.9 per cent...Saturday
1 July '06Vidarbha’s problems are real and palpable. The solution has to be all-India reformSaturday
24 June '06If the Cabinet followed its decision to sell 10 percent of shares in NALCO and Neyveli by selling 10 percent of the shares of other major PSUs...Wednesday
21 June '06The Haryana project will bolster growth. But fiscal discipline could go out of the SEZ windowTuesday
13 June '06When world crude oil prices go up, the consumer has to pay higher taxes. Not fairSunday
28 May '06And it’s not all good news for the UPA. As the government of the economist-PM marks two years, Ila Patnaik does the reality checkSunday
21 May '06Education, unlike most other sectors, has not been touched by liberalisation. The removal of the license-permit raj released industry from the shackles that had prevented its growth.Tuesday
16 May '06We need qualitative improvement in government schools not more quotasWednesday
10 May '06Does a drop in the State GDP growth rate spell trouble for the party in power when Assembly elections come?Wednesday
3 May '06Amid May Day celebrations, here’s a wake-up call from the government’s employment exchanges. A recent report on these exchanges in Delhi shows that in the last five years, only 902 of the 5 lakh candidates who registered have got jobs through them.Tuesday
2 May '06We need to take away the price difference that provides the incentive to cheatWednesday
26 April '06The share of agriculture in Indian economy is rapidly shrinking as it did in all advanced economies. Agriculture’s share in GDP in 1991 was 33 per cent. By 2000 it had fallen to 25 per cent and now it is 21 per cent. Looking forward, we can expect it to fall furtherTuesday
11 April '06Two cheers for SBI. It will be three if the government opts outFriday
7 April '06SBI accounts for 20 per cent of bank deposits in the country. This means that one fifth of the business of banking gets done through it.
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