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April 29, 2006 | | The cost of road tragedies
It's debatable if life is really cheap in India. At any rate death is not. It might come easy as the old folksong goes but it isn't cheap if it comes before its time.
RIP: Reforms, ideology, politics
When economists are foxed, they resort to a well-known defence: everything depends on everything else, so one cannot identify what caused what; hence, one has an identification problem.
Now India's car success story
India has succeeded in services, and failed in manufacturing. So goes the popular wisdom. But that may be about to change.
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April 28, 2006 | | 7 myths about reservation
No one in India objected to SC/ST reservations because it was based on a patently moral principle. Everyone, except the OBCs, is objecting to OBC reservation because it is based on an equally obvious political consideration.
Business lessons for India & Pakistan
By developing trade with Pakistan, we can gain more because we have a much bigger and much more competitive manufacturing base.
India: A hotspot for micro finance
For the whole of last month all those connected with the micro finance industry have been very concerned about developments in Andhra Pradesh and how the state government and the RBI would respond to them.
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April 17, 2006 | | The SBI strike and banking autonomy
If there is a need for Delhi to loosen its control over PSU banks, there is also a case for improving governance.
Punting on the credit policy
If peer pressure is a factor in determining monetary policy, the odds are in favour of the RBI retaining its hawkish stance.
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April 15, 2006 | | Education quotas are unfair
The one social group that needs affirmative action (not quotas) is the Muslims; but strangely, it is politically incorrect to talk about it.
Billionaire Club? A tough task ahead
It is a safe bet that in our Billionaire Club 10 years from now, the proportion of first- generation members will have come down from what it is today.
Rich, famous and boring Indians
Indian billionaires are, individually and collectively, devoted to their respective spouses and families.
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April 10, 2006 | | Mandal Redux
'Any deterioration in the quality of Indian college graduates can put India's nascent economic growth story at risk.'
Washington's unemployed
The IMF and the World Bank are discovering that their role in today's financial world is shrinking.
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April 06, 2006 | | Gender inequality in boardrooms
Seventy years. That's what it will take for there to be as many women as men on company boards.
Govt must stop pampering the SBI
The best way to resolve the issue will be to raise the pension ceiling by factoring in the rise in inflation rates and not by raising the pensions to the level of other public sector banks.
India's locomotive for growth
Letting markets set prices in affluent countries is different from doing so in developing countries.
The education export market
If the envisaged private initiative in education delivers quality, we could wean away some of this market from the US.
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| April 04, 2006 | | Of global brands & Asian consumers
Asian consumers look at brands from the West is different from the way the West looks at its own brands.
Why we need the IMF
With advanced emerging markets more engaged, perhaps industrial countries will see more value in the IMF as a forum for dialogue.
The rise of the Indian pharma cos
They are licensing in patented products so as to keep their facilities going, and addressing the growing Indian market.
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| April 03, 2006 | | Why a home office is best
There are other advantages to the home office. Top of the list is the absence of phone calls from PR agencies. My wardrobe consists of nothing, or a towel in summer, and tracksuits in winter.
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