https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/iip-confession-time-and-for-atonement/1526942
Sins of commission and omission find reflection in the latest IIP figures
RN Bhaskar – 16 May 2019
For months the government has stonewalled criticisms about job creation and economic growth. But now there is a grudging admission that economic growth...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/bank-mergers-abracadabra-mess-vanishes-r-n-bhaskar/1363483
Bank mergers, LIC and IL&FS: abracadabra! See the mess has disappeared!
— By RN Bhaskar | Sep 27, 2018
There is trouble that is bubbling inside India’s financial cauldron. The three witches cackle, stir their brooms in the broth, and chant incantations that...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-gordion-knot-where-will-jobs-come-from-r-n-bhaskar/965953
The Gordian Knot: Where will jobs come from?
— By R N Bhaskar | Nov 03, 2016 08:07 am
The central government is believed to be getting the jitters. Unemployment rates have soared. New jobs that were promised have not materialised. And...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-what-to-look-out-for-in-budget-202
Budget 2020 might be an eyeweash without these changes
RN Bhaskar -- 30 January 2020
This article appears on these pages just a day before the budget. It is too late to suggest what the government should do. But it is...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/manufacturing-continues-to-disenchant/1114582
Manufacturing gets pushed aside in India
— By RN Bhaskar | Aug 03, 2017 06:48 am
The government talks about strengthening the manufacturing backbone of India. Slogans of ‘Make in India’ continue to rent the air. Everyone talks about how this is to...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-fire-next-time/1485655
Economic development could get derailed?
RN Bhaskar -- March 20, 2019
The title has been borrowed from a 1963 non-fiction book by James Baldwin. The book contains two essays: "My Dungeon Shook — Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/it-is-time-india-reshaped-its-exim-strategies/1491174
India's EXIM needs restructuring
RN Bhaskar March 28, 2019
Within the next few months, India’s policymakers will have to decide how to restructure India’s Exim policies. This will be necessitated by three factors.
First, the global economic slowdown is likely to...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/niti-aayog-is-wrong-about-water-desalination
Niti Aayog is wrong to recommend water desalination
RN Bhaskar – August 8, 2019
Last fortnight, Niti Aayog, the national official think-tank, came up with a proposal that -- in order to address the country's water woes -- desalination plants should...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/column-policy-watch-lost-mantra-of-grow-more-with-less-1949931
R N Bhaskar | Updated: Jan 13, 2014, 08:54 AM IST, DNA
The agony of fragmentation of agricultural land holdings in India is an old story. What is alarming is that, today, almost 67% comprise small holdings –...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/death-with-dignity-gains-legality-in-the-uk/1175058
India dithers over death with dignity
— By RN Bhaskar | Nov 23, 2017 08:10 am
Last week, this newspaper talked about (http://www.freepressjournal.in/world/indian-origin-pharmacist-cleared-of-elderly-dads-murder/1172908) how a UK High Court judge, Justice Green, threw out a murder charge against a chemist. The chemist, a...
