India exim: Cut the hype. India is bleeding
RN Bhaskar
Politicians love to focus on their achievements, but remain silent about their shortcomings. This is also true of India’s recently announced Foreign Trade Policy for 2023 (https://www.business-standard.com/economy/news/govt-releases-foreign-trade-policy-2023-eyes-2-trn-export-target-by-2030-123033100329_1.html). The policy itself is...
R N Bhaskar
6 July 2015
For almost four decades since India’s independence, Germany saw immense opportunity in this country. True, there were hurdles. Managing the government wasn’t easy. Especially when many of the big businesses that Germany was interested in...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/water-and-waste-water-in-india
India's blindness - for water and waste water
RN Bhaskar -- 4 July 2019
If one goes by news reports, it would appear that the government is trying to sort out the impending water crisis on a war footing. That is...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/making-the-poor-even-poorer
Making the poor even poorer
RN Bhaskar
On Independence Day came the news that the finance minister planned to soon review the exemption-free new tax regime with a view to making it more attractive for individual income taxpayers, sources said. Eventually,...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-indias-markets-and-the-economy
Markets and the Indian economy
RN Bhaskar
One could call it bittersweet. There are plenty of reasons for feeling happy, even euphoric. By Friday last week, the stockmarkets had revived – after initially slumping. The BSE Sensex had crossed the 60,000...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/is-india-headed-for-further-currency-depreciation/1470652
Unproductive spending could easily lead to further currency depreciation
RN Bhaskar February 28, 2019
Turning and turning in a widening gyre//The falcon cannot hear the falconer.//Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold . . . . .
WB Yeats, The Second Coming
The...
China develops Africa both as Plan B for itself and for the world
RN Bhaskar
The future of the world will lie in making Africa grow. That is what China has been doing all along. That is what India should be...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/doles-freebies-elections-and-the-absence-of-accountability/1496631
Lots more doles mean much more corruption
RN Bhaskar April 4, 2019
The dice was rolled two years ago when the present government permitted loan waivers in Uttar Pradesh. The fire was bound to spread. But even before that, the concept...
In the Bing generated image above, the onlooker observes how pygmies try to weigh down a larger and more powerful person. That can be a terrible tragedy when the big and powerful are sought to be pulled down by...
Lectures by RN Bhaskar
The rural Economy
Future of Agriculture series -- Lectures
Date
Title
URL
16-07-2020
Why Agriculture matters for India| Future of Agriculture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNqVLmf2G4g&t=295s
23-07-2020
Milk is the real backbone of India's rural economy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4JY5YjWsBo
30-07-2020
Animal Husbandry -Economics and Fallacies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGyLxdHFQMw
06-08-2020
The emerging wealth generator in farming is vegetables and fruit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77gqM0nQObg&t=55s
13-08-2020
Rural...
