How will 2024 be for India and its economy?
By RN Bhaskar
Prognosis is judgement about how something is likely to develop in the future. It is based on symptoms that are visible today, and which may lead to consequences, unless...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/foreign-direct-investment-good-news-and-bad/1213111
Anxious times for India's FDI
— By RN Bhaskar | Feb 01, 2018 07:43 am
On 22 January UNCTAD announced that global flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) had fallen by 16% in 2017 to an estimated US$1.52 trillion, from a revised US$1.81...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-power-drain-in-india-by-rnbhaskar
The mismanagement of power in India
RN Bhaskar – 02 January, 2020
The sins of the past are finally catching up with the power sector. The energy situation has worsened, and could get worse, as policymakers hurtle from one blunder to...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/psus-when-a-promise-is-not-a-promise-r-n-bhaskar/1242051
PSUs: Promises forgotten, rules ignored
— By RN Bhaskar | Mar 22, 2018 08:17 am
On March 13, 2018, the Parliament’s Lower House, the Lok Sabha, passed without debate two finance bills and 218 amendments. These included funding demands from 99 government...
India must find new ways to cope with global fragmentation
RN Bhaskar
There is global fragmentation all around. And India has already begun reconsidering many of the policies it had introduced and was quite smug about. Two developments of last week...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/north-indias-demographic-time-bomb-r-n-bhaskar/825303
Will North India trigger the end of the India dream?
In an insightful document that Ambit Capital brought out on 5 April this year, (on Sizing India’s demographic bomb), the authors highlight a stark reality that confronts India.
It talks about...
Sugarcane will drive Maharashtra to the ground
RN Bhaskar
This article is the second part of a two part analysis of Maharashtra and Sugarcane. The first part can be found at https://asiaconverge.com/2023/03/poor-land-management-has-caused-many-farmers-to-commit-suicide/
If there is one crop where Maharashtra has done...
How North India suddenly became richer, and paid more taxes despite profligacy
By RN Bhaskar
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Go through the budget papers and you discover some strange numbers. North India has become the largest taxpayer. Hitherto, it was south and...
Education in India has a long way to go
RN Bhaskar
Politicians love to claim that India can become the teacher for the entire world. They use the term Vishwaguru (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/next-5-yrs-will-make-india-vishwa-guru-modi-in-gujarat/articleshow/69510732.cms) . Even states like Uttar Pradesh that have done miserably...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-indias-blighted-vision-about-gold-mining
Gold mining – part I
Can India have better policies relating to gold mining
RN Bhaskar -- 17 December 2020
Last week, media headlines screamed out information about the ‘theft’ of 100 kg of gold kept in the CBI vaults. An inhouse...
