India’s net FDI is a pointer to a deeper malaise
By RN Bhaskar
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On May 23, 2025, media headlines announced (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/indias-net-fdi-crashes-96-5-in-fy25-lowest-on-record/articleshow/121353121.cms) that India’s net FDI had plummeted by a shocking 96%. This was the lowest it had slipped. ...
China could rebound faster than many imagine
RN Bhaskar
Not a week passes without Western media trying to put out one story or the other about what is wrong with China. But such sneers are not a new development.
They were evident...
Modi warms up to China
By RN Bhaskar
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In some ways, one could say that Prime minister Modi has the proverbial nine lives of a cat. His visit to Tianjin in China this September could provide him a...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/eco-surveys-flawed-approach-towards-energy/1126691
The flawed approach of the Economic Survey towards energy
— By RN Bhaskar | Aug 24, 2017 07:29 am
The second volume of the Economic Survey, 2015-16 (http://indiabudget.nic.in/budget2016-2017/vol2_survey.asp) makes for very interesting reading. But its analysis of the energy sector is inadequate.
Take the...
Without economic growth, India's population bonanza means nothing
RN Bhaskar
There was almost a collective whoop of joy in India when the UN came out with its report showing that India’s population had now exceeded China’s. But the actual picture could...
https://www.dnaindia.com/business/column-policy-watch-teaching-the-honest-to-become-dishonest-1825420
Loan waivers promo0te dishonesty and desctroy fiscal discipline
R.N.Bhaskar - Apr 22, 2013
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has indicted the government for not ensuring that loan waiver schemes benefit the right people. Its sample survey of the...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/rn-bhaskar-neem-project-the-next-big-agro-revolution/1097354
The ‘neem’ revolution has arrived
— By RN Bhaskar | Jul 06, 2017 07:26 am
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi often talks of “Save Water; Save Energy; Save Fertiliser”. By May 2015, in order to prevent the diversion of fertilizers for non-farm...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/death-with-dignity-gains-legality-in-the-uk/1175058
India dithers over death with dignity
— By RN Bhaskar | Nov 23, 2017 08:10 am
Last week, this newspaper talked about (http://www.freepressjournal.in/world/indian-origin-pharmacist-cleared-of-elderly-dads-murder/1172908) how a UK High Court judge, Justice Green, threw out a murder charge against a chemist. The chemist, a...
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...
Waste-management: Sweden can show the way
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-policy-watch-lessons-we-can-learn-from-sweden-in-waste-management-2007453
Sweden is a small country. Its landmass is just 450,295 sq. km compared with 3,287,590 sq km for India. It population is even smaller – 9.6 million people compared with 1.2 billion for India.
But...
