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Sanjeev Ahluwalia

Taming regulatory excess in retail markets

Sadly, legislation, in democracies, is strongly influenced by political economy which dilutes technical good sense

18 Jul 2021 7:47 AM

The stock market is not a useful proxy for economic welfare. It tracks the well-being of an elitist minority in the formal sector, albeit with trickle down benefits. (By arrangement)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | The morality of stock markets

Capital intensive competitive 'games' have a funneling effect where the biggest players benefit disproportionately

13 Jun 2021 7:14 AM

The billions of tax dollars avoided by multinational e-commerce, whilst feeding off the commercial data generated by their customers, often without explicit permission and without compensation and we have a fishbowl of growing global inequity. (Photo: AFP)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | The social media djinn: Excluding and unsocial

India women are 26 per cent less likely to access mobile Internet due to misogyny, harassment and revenge porn

09 May 2021 12:00 AM

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Indian subnationalism past its expiry date?

Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, represent exemplar benchmarks for regionalism with deep political, social, linguistic and cultural roots

11 Apr 2021 12:00 AM

For citizens, at the receiving end of the pipe, what matters most is the efficiency and effectiveness of the last-mile expenditure management by the state governments. (Photo: PTI)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | A bottom-up view of the annual Budget

Despite the hoopla around the Union government’s Budget, for citizens, allocations in their state budgets matter more

14 Feb 2021 4:35 AM

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel clear debris after a portion of the Nanda Devi glacier snapped off, releasing water trapped behind it in Tapovan, Uttarakhand on Tuesday, February 9, 2021. (AP Photo)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Playing with God’s world: ‘Growth’ has a high price

It is also unclear to what extent the disaster is the outcome of over-exploitation of resources in the back-to-back construction of dams

10 Feb 2021 7:14 AM

The wonder is that most parents do eventually cope with the daunting task of loving and serving unconditionally. (Representational image. Pixabay)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | C-virus funk? Relax, and respect the kids

There are so many moving parts, any of which could pitch the game against the parent or the child

10 Jan 2021 7:32 AM

2021: A magical bridge across troubled waters

The enhanced vaccine cover will, we hope, diminish social and economic disruptions.

31 Dec 2020 4:43 AM

Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das (PTI)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Keeping Big Biz out of banks not a good idea

Increasing the number of well- capitalised private banks will induce competition and dilute the concentration of economic power

04 Dec 2020 7:35 AM

Sanitation employee adjust the tyres for distance maintenance before starting Swab tests due to COVID0-19 at Bishop Grassi school in Vijayawada. (DC Image:Narayana Rao)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Different, and same: Pandemic musings

The ongoing pandemic’s most telling debris — other than heightened neurosis and germaphobia — are the ubiquitous masks

29 Nov 2020 9:45 AM

A vegetable vendor pushes his bicycle loaded with vegetables on an empty street during a complete lockdown amid growing concerns of coronavirus in Noida, on the outskirts of New Delhi on March 24, 2020. Authorities have gradually started to shutdown much of the country to contain the outbreak. (AP)

Lockdowns are overkill, and won’t tame the virus

The silence of economic graveyards can be very expensive for struggling economies like ours

24 Mar 2020 7:49 PM

A boy sells face masks at a traffic intersection in Mumbai on March 15, 2020. (AP)

The C-virus impact on the lives of urban Indians

Globalisation benefited urban India the most, so it is urban India that is now affected the most

16 Mar 2020 11:49 AM

Treating Trump better may be good for India; but let’s not forget China

Look no further than enjoying at Ahmedabad a grander version of the Narendra Modi-Donald Trump event in Houston last year in September.

22 Feb 2020 3:18 AM

Seismic changes haunt BJP after Delhi shock

To be sure the city of Delhi — a cossetted child of emperors starting with the Great Mughals — is spoilt silly.

15 Feb 2020 3:07 AM

New thinking is needed, Band-Aids won’t suffice

The government has been firefighting since FY 2019 using mostly Band-Aids of the cheapest kinds.

29 Jan 2020 2:26 AM

Modi legacy: What the future holds for India

The man is full of energy, strong in the saddle and is likely to be around till 2030.

07 Jan 2020 1:29 AM

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)

Stoke ‘animal spirits’ to let India breathe again

The economic downturn has cannibalised the participation of women in the workforce -- down to 26 per cent from 37 per cent in FY 2005.

25 Dec 2019 2:13 AM

Active participation by the private sector in policy and rulemaking wherever they impinge on business should become a necessary practice, rather than the hush-hush, wink-wink business it is today. (Representional Image)

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

Had India become a part of the bloc, it would have had the third highest GDP just below Japan and above South Korea, and tied with South Korea for the third highest global trade.

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

Good Economics for Hard Times, by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo Juggernaut, Rs 699.

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

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