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https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/commodities/gold-needs-some-very-urgently-needed-policy-changes-4820471.html Policy changes for gold urgently required RN Bhaskar  -- January 15, 2020 Successive governments in India have waffled on gold policies for long (http://www.asiaconverge.com/2019/11/urgent-needfor-gold-reforms/). As a result, the entire gold trade was allowed to either go underground, or go to seed. The...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/how-the-governments-gold-policies-make-indias-neighbours-richer-and-this-country-itself-poorer-4574121.html India's gold policies have impoverished the country RN Bhaskar -- Oct 25 2019 In 2013, P Chidambaram decided to impose a 10% import duty on gold (https://in.reuters.com/article/india-tax-finmin/gold-duty-raised-to-record-10-percent-as-imports-revive-idINDEE97C03J20130813).  The finance minister was quite savvy about the way financial markets work. He knew too...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/nbfcs-will-grow-by-15-percent-next-year-ys-chakravarti-md-ceo-shriram-city-union-finance NBFCs will continue to grow -- YS Chakravarti Jescilia Karayamparambil & RN Bhaskar -- January 26, 2021 NBFCs have seen the industry go through a turmoil during the past few years and right now it is the COVID-19 impact. But these...
https://www.firstpost.com/business/govt-plans-to-incentivise-contract-farming-centre-should-encourage-large-firms-to-be-part-of-plan-decision-will-bring-transparency-of-purchases-and-sales-6910021.html Why contract farming matters – I Contract farming offers farmers tremendous security, but all's not well here RN Bhaskar -- July 1, 2019 The government has just announced that it will look at ways to incentivize contract farming.  While the details of...
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/eye-on-india/videos/tanker-mafia-earning-rs-8000-10000-crore-annually-from-water-biz-in-mumbai-4057001.html Water series – 3:The stranglehold of the water-tanker-mafia Other articles in this series are given below: RN Bhaskar – 3 June 2019 Mumbai and the rest of Maharashtra – maybe even the rest of India – is in the grip of what...
http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/some-red-flags-in-the-economy-numbers-agriculture-is-the-most-alarming-2477189.html Economic growth continues to falter. Watch agriculture When agriculture’s GVA growth climbed from -0.2% in 2014-15, to 0.7% in 2015-16, everyone expected agriculture to continue doing well. This was confirmed by this growth rate further rising to 4.9% in 2016-17....
Source: http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/economy/why-the-economic-survey-is-wrong-about-renewables-2390283.html R.N.Bhaskar -- Sep 18, 2017 11:50 AM IST Renewables and the Economic Survey 2017 One of the best examples of muddled thinking that has come to characterize researchers can be found in the latest Economic Survey – pages 119-128 of...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/brandix-building-a-sustainable-future-through-apparel-and-waste-management Brandix has big plans for its India venture The company has made environmental sustainability a core part of its business, which has led to a positive impact on the environment and society as a whole. Rebello Dominic RN BhaskarUpdated: Friday, October...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-policy-watch-spectre-of-unemployment-2080974 Spectre of unemployment Monday, 27 April 2015 - 8:22am IST | Place: Mumbai | Agency: dn R N Bhaskar A time bomb is ticking away — over 300 million jobs needed within this decade Prime Minister Modi has just returned from a successful...
http://www.firstpost.com/business/banks-npas-non-performing-assets-psbs-foreign-banks-private-sector-banks-restructuring-fpj-imc-forum-rbi-reserve-bank-of-india-ss-mundra-2792866.html Indian banks and their NPA headache S.S.Mundra, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) put it quite succinctly. Quoting Harold Macmillan, he said, “To be alive at all involves some risk.” He went on to add another quote...