http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-urgent-need-to-tax-agricultural-income/1186437
Taxing agricultural income is sorely needed
— By RN Bhaskar | Dec 14, 2017 07:15 am
In November 2017, the IMC Chamber of Commerce and Industry came out with a white paper on Taxation of Agriculture Income in India.
It makes a compelling...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-agenda-5-nail-biting-moments-can-india-be-revived
Agenda V - India can be revived, but much needs to be done first
(The entire series can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/05/agenda-for-the-government-2021-series/)
By RN Bhaskar
First, they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
...
Mumbai’s traffic police has huge gaps in its service delivery
RN Bhaskar
Mumbai has a glorious record of having an efficient police force. But, over the years, the starch in the upright image of the force is getting crumpled. Even past...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/it-is-time-india-reshaped-its-exim-strategies/1491174
India's EXIM needs restructuring
RN Bhaskar March 28, 2019
Within the next few months, India’s policymakers will have to decide how to restructure India’s Exim policies. This will be necessitated by three factors.
First, the global economic slowdown is likely to...
R N Bhaskar
February 16, 2014
As expected, smuggling of gold into India has continued. While on paper the current account deficit (CAD) appears to have been addressed, the smuggling in of gold has ended up causing immense damage – it has...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/gold-strong-undercurrents-stronger-demand-r-n-bhaskar/916018
Policy Watch:
Gold has not lost its allure
Gold continues to fascinate and perplex. Unlike as during the earlier two decades, central banks the world over have been net purchasers of gold. Earlier they were net sellers. Most analysts believe that...
Talk to high net worth individuals (HNIs) and non-resident Indians (NRIs). They express tremendous anxiety over the provisions of the government’s new piece of legislation. This spells trouble for all of us, even if we are largely law-abiding, they...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/distressed-times-just-watch-what-is-happening-to-gold
When people stop buying gold in India, there is cause to worry
RN Bhaskar
At one level, this should be cause for celebration. Gold imports into India crashed during 2020 (see chart). Lower import of this yellow metal means a smaller...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/a-shrinking-middle-class-could-roil-india-badly
Shrinking middle class, warped policies, could hurt India badly
RN Bhaskar
The writing was on the wall. Poverty is on the march. All the slogans about a resurgent India, self-reliance had begun to sound a bit stale, irrelevant, even distasteful.
Poverty triumphs...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/lessons-in-education-from-china-for-india/830650
What India can learn about education from China - I
Any way you look at it, there is a great sad irony underlining the approach of India and China to its own people and to the world.
India waxes eloquent about...
