N K Singh
The Indian Express Group
Friday 25 July '08
Not all stalled reform is due to the Left. UPA must find a consensus to move onSunday 6 July '08
The professed loyalty of Arjun Singh to the Gandhi family is largely a private affair. However, resolving the challenges of higher education is not.Sunday
22 June '08Just over a fortnight ago the Stanford Centre for International Development concluded its IXth Annual Conference on Indian economic policy reform.Sunday
8 June '08In my last two pieces, I had suggested an agenda for tax and expenditure reforms for 2009.Sunday
25 May '08My last column dwelt on tax reforms. This column is about expenditure reforms, a subject that has been much talked about but has seen little action.Sunday
11 May '08The Budget Session of Parliament concluded earlier this week. While it was disrupted as on many earlier occasions...Sunday
27 April '08Global concerns on food security have continued to escalate. The reported food riots in many countries are only the beginning of deeper...Sunday
13 April '08Inflation is now an Asian worry. The annual report of the Asian Development Bank, entitled Asian Development Outlook 2008...Sunday
6 April '08While presenting the Sixth Pay Commission report to the finance minister, Justice Srikrishna is reported to have remarked...Sunday
23 March '08The recent cover story on India in The Economist considered what was holding us back from realising the true growth potential.Sunday
9 March '08We are in a new a phase of competitive populism. The only time the expression on Railway Minister Lalu Yadav’s face changed during Finance Minister P.Sunday
2 March '08Budget 2008 is both populist and popular. P. Chidambaram has certainly heeded Edmund Burke that “mere parsimony is not economy.Sunday
24 February '08The forthcoming budget will, for good reason, accord priority to agriculture and education.Sunday
17 February '08I wonder what my teacher Jagadish Bhagwati, the eminent economist who has championed the cause of ‘nations without borders...Sunday
10 February '08The debate on coupling versus de-coupling rages endlessly.Sunday
3 February '08I was in Davos like many others last week. Over its 38 years the World Economic Forum has grown from a minuscule group to a giant mammoth.Sunday
27 January '08Budget speculations have begun. Those of us familiar with the budget-making process know that the expenditure budget would have been frozen.Sunday
20 January '08The flutter created by Nano, Tata’s new low-cost car, will not subside soon.Sunday
6 January '08Three weeks back, the National Development Council met in Delhi to approve the XIth Five Year Plan...Sunday
23 December '07The revival of Nalanda University as a centre of learning, proximate to the site of the old university of which only 20 per cent has been excavated...Wednesday
19 December '07Gandhinagar to host 3-day national convention of Alcoholics Anonymous, even policemen invited as speakers.Monday
17 December '07Both of them are leaders in their own right: Arun Jaitley, one of the top BJP leaders, is a general secretary in the party while Ahmed Patel, occupying the centrestage of Congress politics for almost a quarter century...Sunday
16 December '07Three days from now the National Development Council will meet to approve the XIth Five Year Plan.Friday
14 December '07Women and youth are going to ensure that he comes back to power and retains the present tally of 127 seats in a House of 182, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi...Sunday
9 December '07The Indian Economic Summit 2007, organised by the World Economic Forum on the broad theme of ‘Building Centres of Excellence...
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