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Budget 2020 balances aspirational growth with fiscal prudence

Shows government keen on foreign investment Allowing FDI, ECB to education sector a remarkable move

2 min read1 Feb 2020
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Opinion| The jobs thrust

To really cash in on the country’s so-called democratic dividend, providing employment for India’s youth bulge is the state’s biggest challenge

1 min read14 Jun 2019
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Opinion | How to talk politics at the workplace

Shouldn’t we try and address our own biases about safe topics for discussion?

3 min read27 May 2019
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Opinion | The intuition versus efficiency trade-off in managing biases

The problem with the de-biasing strategies is that they assume that all biases are bad and need to be eliminated

4 min read30 Jan 2019
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Opinion: The Faustian bargain we have struck with ‘godless secularism’

When religion was forcibly ejected from the public sphere, what replaced it was a vacuuma malaise or an ennui

4 min read31 Dec 2018
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Opinion: Global economic events predict pathos in the coming year

Emerging economies have to contend with economic and political turbulence in China

4 min read25 Dec 2018
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Opinion | A Hyderabadi conundrum

For the politician seeking to rename Hyderabad Bhagyanagar it may come as news that the last laugh will still be had by the ghost of the Qutb Shah

5 min read15 Nov 2018
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Taking a trip abroad? Pack in your travel insurance

Travel cover comes handy if you meet with an accident or suffer a medical emergency

3 min read15 Nov 2018
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Opinion | Revisiting accountability at Reserve Bank of India

It makes sense to consider an accountability framework for RBI regulatory decisions so that it doesn’t take the blame for being arbitrary with its decisions

3 min read15 Nov 2018
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The political economy of central bank independence

It is an empirical matter whether investors repose confidence in the central bank or in the country’s government. But what should they do when moves like demonetisation become part of economic policy?

3 min read13 Nov 2018
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