https://www.dnaindia.com/business/column-policy-watch-teaching-the-honest-to-become-dishonest-1825420
Loan waivers promo0te dishonesty and desctroy fiscal discipline
R.N.Bhaskar - Apr 22, 2013
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has indicted the government for not ensuring that loan waiver schemes benefit the right people. Its sample survey of the...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/gms-needs-polishing-for-brighter-glow/716007
The Gold Monetisation scheme deserves to be better implemented
— By RN Bhaskar | Nov 19, 2015 12:00 am
It is heartening to see the government pushing the GMS (Gold Monetisation Scheme). After decades, the government has finally become quite serious about mobilising...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/geography-economics-history-and-culture-heres-why-india-and-china-need-each-other
How should India view China?
RN Bhaskar - July 2, 2020
At times of war, it is dangerous to talk of peace. As the poet TS Eliot once remarked (through the lips of Aunt Agatha in A Family Reunion), “In a...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/looking-an-auto-gift-horse-in-the-mouth-rn-bhaskar/820291
Looking an auto gift-horse in the mouth?
— By RN Bhaskar | Apr 07, 2016 12:37 am
In January this year, the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) made an interesting proposal to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. The proposal...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/more-homework-needed-for-industrialisation-r-n-bhaskar/893790
MIDC: How industry gets sabotaged, land-grab abetted, and extortion ignored
The Constitution of India has a very interesting section which most people are not very familiar with. It is Article 243 Q (c) which states that municipal corporations should be...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-agenda-2-cezs-can-help-india-revive-from-its-continuous-decline
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-agenda-2-cezs-can-help-india-revive-from-its-continuous-decline
Policy watch
Agenda #2 – CEZs can bail India out of this economic crisis
(The entire series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/05/agenda-for-the-government-2021-series/)
RN Bhaskar
“For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings ...”
Richard...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/when-aspirations-become-achievements-r-n-bhaskar/1367956
Barclays-Hurun-Rich-List-2018
Celebrating wealth generators
RN Bhaskar
It is when news like the Barclays Hurun Rich List get splashed around in the media that one actually begins to appreciate how rapidly India has been changing. The sharp increase in the number of wealthy...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/who-is-a-voter-pray-tell-us
Who is a voter, pray?
RN Bhaskar -- 9 January 2020
Battle-lines are drawn between those who object to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and those who support it. The roots of the CAA lie in the Assam Accord, which was...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/nirp-and-the-rosy-indian-economy/862987
How India has avoided the dangers of NIRP
Unexpectedly, and sadly, you hear some people clamouring for the removal of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor, Raghuram Rajan. But there an equally insistent – and numerically superior – group which...
The 'grade inflation' of our past, which has lead to 'massive unemployability' in the present, could lead to 'economic disaster' in the future, warns RN Bhaskar
There is nothing more tragic than watching a champion stumble—that is how most parents...
