http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-did-rbi-and-the-government-allow-the-npa-loot/1273740
Essar, Videocon and other NPAs - did RBI and the government abet this?
RN Bhaskar | May 10, 2018
Bank NPAs are bleeding India. Yet, on 14 March 2018, the RBI governor, Urjit Patel bemoaned the fact that he had more power to...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/will-the-remittances-flow-revive/1400829
Can remittances surpass their 2014 levels?
RN Bhaskar November 22, 2018
Four years ago, when oil prices were slipping, there were worries that remittances from foreign workers into India would decline. The reduction in oil revenues had made many countries in...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-regulators-3-corruption-is-often-on-account-of-regulatory-processes
Regulatory Games 3: Corruption and regulatory processes
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. -- Saul Bellow
RN Bhaskar
In the first week of September, a news item in a leading...
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India excelled in the art of earning its wealth, not plundering it
By RN Bhaskar
This is a story not just for historians, but for India’s policymakers. It tells of how Indian entrepreneurship can be truly unlocked if they are...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/arbitration-need-to-protect-investments
Protect investments and arbitration; else the economic pain will worsen
RN Bhaskar -- 23 January 2020
The recent reckless remarks against Amazon’s Jeff Bezos’s investment announcements have upset the global financial community. The government’s subsequent claim that the remarks were taken...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-epayments-the-government-stumbles-again/1023892
Epayments - several things the RBI and the Cabinet Secretary overlooked
— By RN Bhaskar | Feb 23, 2017 08:59 am
Last week, the government came out with two announcements regarding epayments. One was through the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/policy-watch-budget-2021-is-a-mixed-bag-with-too-many-causes-for-alarm
Budget 2021 is not really about Atma Nirbhar Bharat
RN Bhaskar -- 05 February 2021
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All the Budget 2021 articles can be found at http://www.asiaconverge.com/2021/02/budget-2021-series/
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First, there are some very good things about the budget. Note, all the figures discussed here have...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/income-inequality-taxes-and-the-indian-state-rn-bhaskar/845855
Income tax and the Indian state
The government of India finally woke up to the scathing criticism levelled against it by none other than Thomas Piketty in February this year. Piketty talked about how there was tremendous income inequality in...
R N Bhaskar
30 March 2015
Affordable houses of 300 sq feet be provided at just Rs 3 lakh! Really? Is it possible? What about both the availability and cost of land?
The sad truth is that land was never the problem....
http://www.freepressjournal.in/can-evidence-be-kept-alive-indefinitely/
Can evidence be kept alive indefinitely?
— By RN Bhaskar | Nov 05, 2015 12:00 am
This is a true story about a couple in Singapore, where the wife is an entrepreneur. Each year, just before festival time, she asks her extended...
