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Sanjeev Ahluwalia
Can govt let private sector take lead on growth?
Bringing the private sector centre-stage requires a sea change in the manner of its participation and its role in nation-building.
02 Dec 2019 12:00 AM
India dodges RCEP, but can’t avoid Reforms 2.0
Exports to China account for just around 15 per cent, while another 11 per cent go to other destinations in East Asia.
08 Nov 2019 2:31 AM
Saving the world from the bottom upwards
All three apply the experimental method of randomised control trials (RCT) from the physical sciences to social science.
03 Nov 2019 2:04 AM
‘Hybrid’ export growth models: Hope for India
Government advisory committees come with implicit constraints to stay within the limits of what is politically doable.
02 Nov 2019 12:05 AM
Leave growth to pundits, let’s end poverty instead
But the surprise is that so has newly created Telengana! Dividing states seems to do wonders for reducing inequality.
23 Oct 2019 1:56 AM
Are these early shoots of a ‘reforms’ revival?
Encouraging individual ministers to become visible while laying out their strategy to deal with the slowdown is in.
15 Oct 2019 1:07 AM
Stoke demand to stop India slowing down
Even this is optimistic and we could as well be seeing sub 5 per cent growth.
05 Oct 2019 1:46 AM
Tax reform in driblets keeps the party going
Readers will recall the short history of corporate tax reductions under Modi 1.0.
23 Sep 2019 1:09 AM
Tinkering isn’t enough: Time for basic reforms
An interest burden growing faster than GDP growth by 2.5 percentage points is not a comforting signal for fiscal stability.
14 Sep 2019 7:04 AM
100 days of Modi 2.0: It’s time to get going
The truth is out already that India is slowing down along with the rest of the world.
09 Sep 2019 5:05 AM
Kashmir’s still waters run deep
Doing so, he feels, would create the positivity needed to allow the new arrangements to reflect the spirit of the people of Kashmir.
08 Sep 2019 2:36 AM
RBI plays white knight to cash-strapped govt
The FD target for FY 2019-20 is an unreachable 2.85 per cent of GDP.
31 Aug 2019 12:06 AM
India’s economy is now riding a roller-coaster
The problem is that no political economy sensitive plan to implement these reforms has emerged.
24 Aug 2019 12:00 AM
An opportunity called Independence: Use it
English is being steadily eroded by attrition as individual states focus on developing their own languages — there are as many as 22.
15 Aug 2019 12:37 AM
Can Modi 2.0 reinvent the Kashmiri dream?
The average Kashmiri thinks of ‘azadi’ as freedom, not from India but from police raj — the underbelly of elite, non-meritocratic rule.
11 Aug 2019 6:05 AM
The corporate endgame: Why honchos get felled
Corporate honchos and movie stars are as lonely as friendless hobos.
06 Aug 2019 12:00 AM
Can’t China do for India what US did for China?
The Complete Story of Indian Reforms, 2016. His latest is a career first, deep-dive into geo-political economy.
02 Aug 2019 1:46 AM
Vexed sovereign issues: What is the fuss about?
The Budget speech usually announces headline changes proposed for the year under consideration.
29 Jul 2019 12:00 AM
Racy, pacy Bitcoin origin saga is seesaw battle of billionaires vs billionaire
Note the characters are not fictional and so this book is also about cryptohistory in motion.
21 Jul 2019 3:25 AM
J&K bonds with India may deepen over time
Kashmir has this instant ability to exclude everything except the known and the immediate.
20 Jul 2019 12:00 AM
Columns
The fact that they are led by a mendacious monstrosity doesn’t seem to matter.
Recent events offer telling examples of the paradox of the strong State in the Indian context.
The four suspects were taken to the crime scene, ostensibly for a reconstruction of events as part of the investigation.
Evidence shows that rape breathes and thrives in the acid air of patriarchy.