Kidney scouts roam around the labour markets in the poorest districts of Bihar, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Delhi in search of potential donors.
The nation wants an ex-ante body for endorsing "public purpose" during land acquistion process.
This Budget signals a shift from a hand-out to a hand-up economy.
May be the strong United States growth will lead the world back to a period of growth and help us all put this painful recrimination behind us.
If the RBI governor's logic holds, the rupee is far from being extremely overvalued.
This will be an area where bilateral or regional trade pacts may not be able to perform well.
'These people are living on the edge of starvation and governments need to show much greater compassion towards them.'
'If the Indian economy formalises, industrialises, urbanises and develops human capital, 10 lakh youngsters will join the labour force every month in the next 10 years.' 'It's not a bulb that will go off; it is a sunrise.'
'Once I was ready with my product I started looking for funding and realised people would not understand how a woman could, without a technology or an IIT/M background, be running the business alone.' 'Today when I connect the dots I feel grateful about how I have been able to overcome and learn with every failure.'
IMF attributes the slower growth rate to supply-side bottlenecks.
Both the Greek and Iranian deals are extremely imperfect and fraught with uncertainty, says Claude Smadja.
While information technology companies will benefit, firms with high foreign borrowings or heavy dependence on imports will be hurt.
Why the proposed United States rule change for H-4 (dependent) visa holders is not enough and what you should do about it
'India's biggest loss is that we will not have anyone as principled and as courageous as Rajan.'
Narendra Modi's pay-off from relaxing labour laws would be huge.
Instead of targeting global imbalances per se, the narrative must change to the structure and direction of such asymmetries.
Creating many more half-decent jobs for the 10 million plus new entrants to the labour force each year must surely constitute the primary development challenge for India today.
'... for two reasons: the poor quality of education, and the low rate of female participation in the labour force.' 'Unless something is done quickly to remedy these problems, India will just have a large population of low-skill, low-wage, males trying and failing to feed their families adequately.'
The crisis remains acute with the country's banks already closed.
The BJP government is no better than the Congress -- as wretched and anti-people. In addition, it is explicitly and aggressively communal, says Venkatesh B Athreya, in a hard-hitting interview to Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com.
Young, ambitious workforce learns skill degrees come with no guarantees.
Global working conditions have worsened in 2014.
Following is the full text of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's speech at FICCI's 86th annual general meeting on Saturday:
Sanjay Mathur, managing director and head of economics research for Asia Pacific (ex-Japan), Royal Bank of Scotland, tells Business Standard that in the emerging market pack, India needs to learn lessons from Korea and Taiwan, which have managed their economic situations well.
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The disparity between the outlook of the rich and poor was greater in India than in any other emerging economy. Indians might want to be worried about this because this suggests that the rich are really out of touch with the poor, Bruce Stoke, Director of Pew Research Center, tells Faisal Kidwai in an interview.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram, while addressing the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on "Recapturing India's Growth Momentum" in Washington on Thursday, said that the leading think tank need not launch an initiative to explore how India will vote in 2014, declaring that the Indian polity will vote the Congress back into power.
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