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| November 30, 2006 | | How India can be the global KPO king
Here are the skills and expertise that one needs to have to succeed in the knowledge economy.
Low wages don't drive FDI
If the Indian Government needs to make FDI work wonders for its growth, then it might do well to invest in dressing up.
India, China trade: Still miles to go
If long-term investment flows and not trade flows are taken as the real yardstick for assessing the soundness and durability of the economic relations between two countries, India and China have still miles to go before they can celebrate.
Fiscal deficit, what's that?
If we don't take the fiscal deficit seriously, then it could easily widen and harm our future growth
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| November 28, 2006 | | Learn, & then co-operate with China
Learning how China is addressing issues like poverty alleviation, education, health and infrastructure is what the leaders and future leaders of India should focus on.
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| November 22, 2006 | | Target-setting bad for microfinance
MFIs, with their eye on the present, often do not consider that once the claims start and the insurance company realises that it is not making money, the future of the products themselves may be in jeopardy.
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| November 17, 2006 | | India a gas surplus nation? Bah!
While natural gas consumption is projected to grow by between one per cent and three per cent in most industrialised countries, demand growth is expected to be multiples of that in China and India.
Have reforms helped India's poor?
The debate on whether economic reforms and accelerated economic growth have led to faster reduction in poverty levels and employment growth continues to generate disagreement.
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| November 14, 2006 | | B-schools ignore man-management
Man-management, marketing, corporate strategy and human resources are the most complex issues today.
Three suggestions for the RBI
The art of written central bank communication is a new experience for the RBI, so it is understandable if there is a bit of learning by doing. A few suggestions to improve the communication:
India-China: Queering the pitch
I would argue that India has to work harder to appreciate China's cold pragmatism and result-oriented approach.
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| November 13, 2006 | | A paranoid India and a confident China?
India should forget its fears and emulate China's positive approach towards foreign investment.
Choosers should not be beggars
India, not just the Indian economy, seems to have passed through a point of inflection around 2003 and none of us really knows why this has happened.
Mother of all tax settlements
On November 9, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the Internal Revenue Service of the United States announced that the GSK will pay $3.4 billion to the IRS to settle a transfer pricing dispute dating back 17 years.
Of Indian bourses and reforms
The way to make a killing on the Indian bourses seems to be to focus on companies' bottom line and forget the macro view.
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| November 11, 2006 | | Financing India's growth
If the economy is to continue to grow at even 8 per cent annually for another four years, this will imply an investment shortage of over $47 bn a year.
Why India can be global knowledge economy leader
India enjoys unique advantages in having a large pool of English-speaking professionals with degrees in engineering, science or mathematics, who are capable and flexible to learn new skills fast given the right opportunity and reward structure.
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| November 10, 2006 | | The last days of an IIM professor
We have failed in the way we have organised Indian society where its teachers live a life of penury while their students prosper, says .
Of economists and dowry
Is dowry a pre-mortem settlement or a bribe to the groom's family to take over a permanent liability?
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| November 09, 2006 | | When will petro prices come down?
Though people may not be interested in the crude oil price world wide, key question for them will be: will petrol price come down in India with a decrease in the global price?
The modern retail juggernaut
The need for convenience for all segments of Indian consumers is increasing faster than what most in the consumer products industries anticipate.
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| November 08, 2006 | | Gujarat, the next IT hub
The state has definite advantages over others -- more than 65 per cent of the population is under 35, the state has a solid infrastructure and an improved standard of knowledge of English.
The Bombay Club is alive
The disconcerting reality is that the spirit of the Bombay Club is still alive. Nowhere is this as evident as in FDI policies for sectors where the limits are yet to be relaxed.
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| November 03, 2006 | | Live to tell the tale
Long-life stories need not be boring, and why your attitude to adversity matters.
The last (?) unopened envelope
Even as economists raised their forecasts into each quarter as both documented and anecdotal evidence kept growing, the final growth figure in each of the past four quarters has, indeed, been higher than the best estimate.
How Indian cos can be true global players
To be a true global player, we need more Sachin Tendulkars rather than Shah Rukh Khans.
Reddy and RBI's 1st goal
The RBI's first goal must be to get India back to the remarkable achievement of 3 per cent CPI inflation of late 2003.
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