Saturday, March 7, 2026
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-a-muted-30th-anniversary-for-india A troubled 30th anniversary of India's economic liberalisation RN Bhaskar Last week, the nation celebrated its 30th anniversary of economic liberalisation.  The year 1991 was when India actually dared to break away from the shackles that had fettered its growth. That...
The ogre of debt dwarfs many countries By RN Bhaskar Last week UNCTAD brought out a brilliant document titled A World of debt – 2024 (https://unctad.org/publication/world-of-debt).   It pointed out how “Global public debt continues to increase rapidly, driven by cascading crises...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-how-serious-is-india-about-ease-of-doing-business Ease of doing business is crucial for India to grow RN Bhaskar Last week, the PHDCCI and the University of Delhi came out with a report on Ease of Doing Business for MSMEs in India: Percolating EODB Reforms at Factory Level. ...
Trump blows his own trumpet amid ruins By RN Bhaskar Image generated through https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/text2img Ever since Donald Trump assumed the office of the President of the US (for a second time), matters appear to be getting worse for the US. But Trump...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-storm-clouds-gather-but-indian-punters-fiddle-merrily Who is fuelling the fire in the stock market? RN Bhaskar -- 14 January 2021 Indian stock markets are euphoric.  Punters are predicting that the Sensex will cross 50,000 before Budget time.  And they provide all sorts of reasons to justify...
Much of India is poorer than the sub-Saharan region By RN Bhaskar After all the talk about Viksit Bharat, last fortnight’s developments have highlighted the hollowness of such claims. What is ironic is that instead of focussing on the key economic...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/indian-shipping-grows-but-overseas-not-in-india-rn-bhaskar/1382701 Indian shipping faces disadvantages in India, but not overseas RN Bhaskar October 25, 2018 Indian shipping is at a crossroads. On the one hand, it would like to be part of the government vision of Make-In-India. On the other hand, the...
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...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-india-will-not-understand-governance-till-uttar-pradesh-is-tamed India's cross will be the badlands of Uttar Pradesh RN Bhaskar “Pity the nation whose people are sheep And whose shepherds mislead them , , , My country, tears of thee Sweet land of liberty” Excerpted from Pity the Nation by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article137279578.html) Uttar...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-uday-and-the-politics-of-appeasement-and-largesse/1047188 UDAY is doomed to fail, unless subsidies can first be controlled — By RN Bhaskar | Apr 06, 2017 09:11 am In November 2015, the Union government launched the Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY). It was a program aimed at financial turnaround and...