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The importance of being Basu -
AK Bhattacharya, Business Standard
As Chief Economic Advisor Kaushik Basu approaches the end of his tenure that began in December 2009, it is perhaps time to look back and assess how the United Progressive Alliance’s experiment with getting non-government economists to take leadership positions in economic policy administration has worked in the past couple of years.
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Freeing the parrot -
BusinessStandard
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Selective secularism -
SK Sinha, Asian Age
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Islamist parties in Bangladesh trying to hijack nation's politics -
DNA
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Engage on trade -
Suman Bery, Business Standard
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The real moral failure in the food security Bill debate -
Vivek Dehejia, Business Standard
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A darkening digital future -
L Gordon Crovitz, Mint
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Amartya Sen is wrong about the Food Security Bill -
Financial Express
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How food security law is creating perverse incentives -
Business Standard
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Recipe for a change for the worse -
Rajesh Singh, Pioneer
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Congress uses free-food Bill as fodder -
Pioneer
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Such a good fall: Oil & gold booms are over, good for global economy -
Ruchir Sharma, Economic Times
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Govt, India Inc must take advantage of ultra-cheap Western and Japanese money -
Economic Times
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Supreme Court support for the Kudankulam plant reverses anti-development tide -
Times of India
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Some chit chat -
Ila Patnaik, Indian Express
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Not so fast -
Indian Express
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Dhoni and the art of controlling an IPL match -
Aakash Chopra, ESPN
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Stuck record: Why Amartya Sen is wrong on food security again -
R Jagannathan, FirstPost
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Amartya Sen, jholawalas, and the wrongs of rights-based laws -
Seetha, FirstPost
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Chance to stem the CBI rot -
Chitra Subramaniam Duella, Mail Today
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Mr Bansal, take the train, Mr Kumar, follow the law -
Abheek Barman, ET
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Abdicating governance -
Sitaram Yechury, Hindustan Times
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Withdrawal symptoms -
S Nihal Singh, Deccan Chronicle
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Problem is in New Delhi, not in Beijing -
Harsh V Pant, DNA
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A ‘scam-a-day’ UPA chugs on -
Rasheeda Bhagat, Business Line
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Coal scam: Will the high-ups be probed? -
S Gurumurthy, NewIndianExpress
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 There was for years an old "social contract" between politicians and business. This provided for complex rules and regulations that made it impossible to do business honestly in many fields. But it was possible to do business dishonestly, through pay-offs . Some called this "efficient corruption" : politicians took money and delivered clearances. However, the anti-corruption mood of the courts, and new fears of getting caught (like Pawan Bansal) have ended "efficient corruption" . Politicians may still take money but not deliver on clearances , what some call "inefficient corruption" that freezes investment and growth. The old social contract has broken down.
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Split with Nitish will only boost BJP in Bihar -
K Balakrishnan, LensOnNews
WITH THE BJP seemingly decided on projecting Narendra Modi as its PM candidate and its close ally Nitish Kumar of JD(U) equally firm in his opposition to the idea, a split in the NDA alliance looks inevitable; most observers think it’s not a question of if, but when. |
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