Subbarao was delivering the second Business Standard Lecture in New Delhi, immediately after releasing Business Standard India 2011, the fourth volume of the annual India series published by BS Books, a division of Business Standard Limited.
The answer to the problems of high inflation and slowing growth, and low farm incomes, would lie in addressing the basic reforms that India is still to attempt -- like labour laws, says T N Ninan.
'All of us have believed in decentralisation. You may not like property taxation, neither do I. My solution is that the Centre does the tax collection, but we can give a matching grant instead of redistribution,' says the outgoing CEA, Arvind Subramanian.