India: rising through the slowdown
Since the early 1990s India has sought to reenter the global economy through a strategy of gradual and graduated economic liberalization combined with risk-averse prudential regulation in the banking...
View ArticleThis is how economic reforms have transformed India
Perhaps the most appropriate tribute to the memory of the illustrious parliamentarian, Professor Hiren Mukerjee, would consist in the celebration of Indian democracy of which the Lok Sabha itself is...
View ArticlePoor little rich country
In May, the Indian government announced that it was giving $5 billion in aid to African countries in the interest of helping them meet their development goals. “We do not have all the answers,” Prime...
View ArticleFDI brings economic growth – its risks bring hiccups, not heart-attacks
S P Kothari, Deputy Dean and the Gordon Y Billard Professor of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), discusses the global financial crisis, India’s slow reforms and the...
View ArticleWing It With The Butterflies
Manjeet Kripalani, founder and executive director of Gateway House, a Mumbai-based think-tank, calls them “liberalisation’s children”. In a cover story she wrote on India’s youth for Businessweek in...
View ArticleIndia Not Shining Any More
NEW DELHI: It’s a testimony to the lingering effects of a four-decades-old socialistic economy. Each time India makes a policy move towards creating wealth, it does so with a grudging sense of...
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