Economy
MSP hike is both bad politics and economics
The Narendra Modi government is trying to sell the higher minimum support prices (MSPs) it announced recently as a measure...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 22 Jul 2018, 11:41
Little sweet in sugar package
The Rs 7,000-crore sugar package cleared by the Narendra Modi government on 6 June is another instance of taxpayer-funded state...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 18 Jun 2018, 12:03
Bank privatisation is only solution
The Finance Ministry has decided not to urge the Reserve Bank of India to relax its prompt corrective action (PCA)...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 17 Jun 2018, 11:59
Disinvestment, then and now
We don’t slaughter cows, Arun Shourie once said, we starve them to death. The disinvestment minister in the Atal Behari...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 17 Jun 2018, 11:57
Sterlite: When Caesarism undermines administration
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is often accused of focusing on optics rather than on substance, but it is wrong to...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 17 Jun 2018, 11:55
Price controls: Remedy worse than malady
What former US president John F. Kennedy said about victory and defeat can be paraphrased in the Indian context as:...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 17 May 2018, 11:40
Farming woes: The cure is not more socialism
That rhetoric and events are no substitute for reforms is increasingly becoming evident in the economic sphere. The farmers’ march...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 22 Mar 2018, 02:59
Mandatory CSR is morally reprehensible, logically repugnant, and economically wasteful
Of all the sins perpetrated by the political class against private enterprise in this century, the most conspicuous and insidious...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 22 Mar 2018, 02:52
Fleecing taxpayers to fatten fraudsters
Behind every great fortune, wrote the French author Honore de Balzac, lies a great crime—or a great scam, which is...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 14 Mar 2018, 11:59
Modi triggers a quit India movement
In Ayn Rand’s classic novel Atlas Shrugged, business leaders start disappearing from America because of stifling government controls. Something similar...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 14 Mar 2018, 11:50
