Policy Watch

09 February 2026 US trade deal -- a sellout? By RN Bhaskar and Sakeena Bari Sayyed Image: Bloomberg A month ago, before the US trade deal with India -- we actually believed that India had rediscovered its spine.  This was because India had...

http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/lessons-india-can-learn-from-thailand-r-n-bhaskar/1246406 Thailand pursues economic development aggressively — By RN Bhaskar | Mar 29, 2018 08:00 am India began talking about Make in India since 2014.  And it has been talking about India becoming the hub of innovation for several decades now. But quietly, and...

Turmeric gets a shot in the arm RN Bhaskar Turmeric farmers should see better prices both in domestic and export markets soon.  This is because of the efforts of the government’s KVKs (Krishi Vigyan Kendras) and NCDEX (which funded the setting...

India and China warm up to each other. Russia could be the marriage-maker RN Bhaskar The last two months have been turbulent for India.  In a way, this is a microcosm of what the world has witnessed during the past two...

http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/gold-import-duties-need-to-be-streamlined-rn-bhaskar/1372617 Gold import duties begin to attract attention — By RN Bhaskar | Oct 11, 2018 Last fortnight, the government of India released a list of 19 items where import duties had been raised. What was interesting was that despite a clamour from the trade...

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...

Dreams of a Ferrari on India’s potholed roads By RN Bhaskar The picture is courtesy CoPilot The Union Budget should get announced within days of this column being put out in public domain.  There is abundant speculation that the government will pull...

http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/does-anybody-care-for-the-dead/679682 Oct 08, 2015 12:16 am The Sheena Bora murder brought the issue in sharp focus. The murder of poor innocents, as part of sacrifice to the gods to appease them and to protect the interests of a mining baron...

http://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/rn-bhaskar-code-on-wages-bill-and-dream-of-jobs-for-all/1132793 Can the Wages Code scuttle the PM’s dream of jobs-for-all? — By RN Bhaskar | Sep 07, 2017 07:41 am On 10 August 2017, the government – through the labour minister Bandaru Dattatreya -- introduced in the Lok Sabha the Code on Wages...

https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-fresh-evidence-confirms-agreement-on-limiting-nato-in-russia-ukraine-crisis Ukraine - The US rings the death knell for global banking and business RN Bhaskar This is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper -- TS. Eliot, ‘The Hollow Men’   Ever since the Ukraine Russia US conflict...