Saturday, August 1, 2026

Who will bridge promise and performance? By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed Picture source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyDHRpM2iNU   Government engineers and supervisors can be terribly incompetent even capricious. Two data points provide ample evidence of this. The first is how two parts of a...
Yarns government spokespersons spin about jobs and growth By RN Bhaskar The government may say that the economy is looking good, and that India is on the rise. But some key indicators are flashing red. Few jobs, little growth and a bleak...
Has India eliminated poverty? RN Bhaskar Last week, the government proudly declared that it had reduced Multidimensional poverty during the past five years (https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1940125). It claimed that. 13.5 crore Indians escape Multidimensional Poverty in 5 years. Steep decline in number of...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/jan-aushadhi-could-disrupt-domestic-pharma-market/1148447 Jan Aushadhi could be a game changer for Indian pharma — By RN Bhaskar | Oct 05, 2017 08:16 am This is like many other schemes that the previous government merely talked about, introduced, and then forgot. The Jan Aushadhi (literally translated as...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/policy-watch-e-solutions-cannot-substitute-efficiency-integrity-and-intelligence India stunts its own ecommerce potential RN Bhaskar India has always prided itself on its IT (information Technology) skills.  It believes that it can become the world’s outsourcing hub for technology. It believes that it could become the biggest ecommerce and esolutions...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-policy-watch-indian-agriculture-pampered-and-terribly-exploited-1828230 With smaller holdings China does better Monday, 29 April 2013 - 8:30am IST | Agency: dna China doesn't subsidise, but has done a lot better by investing in agri infrastructure. Politicians love to swear by the poor farmer. That explains why the...
A hollowed-out India needs an economic reboot By RN Bhaskar Hollowed-out is a phrase that refers to something being taken out, leaving the shell to be filled with anything or nothing. India is being hollowed out.  Its ability to be entrepreneurial...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/india-contaminates-its-demography Great opportunity; bad demography RN Bhaskar In a brilliant paper by Morgen Housel  (Three Big Things: The Most Important Forces Changing The World by, 31 August 2022  -- https://collabfund.com/blog/three-big-things-the-most-important-forces-shaping-the-world/) one comes to learn, indirectly of course, how India has contaminated its...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-is-this-all-that-a-double-engine-growth-can-achieve-in-uttar-pradesh Uttar Pradesh: A double engine policy means little if the tracks are poorly aligned RN Bhaskar The government is fond of talking about a double engine growth in Uttar Pradesh (UP).  In the recently tabled Union Budget, it talked about a...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/king-coals-rise-decline-and-eventual-fall-r-n-bhaskar/912190 King Coal is rapidly losing market relevance Few thought this would ever happen. In fact, if you plot a chart of coal demand in the UK for the period 1860 till 2020 (http://about.bnef.com/presentations/liebreich-state-of-the-industry-keynote-bnef-summit-2016/  also see chart), the image tells you...