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...
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...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/gms-needs-polishing-for-brighter-glow/
Gold Monetization Scheme needs polishing for brighter glow
— By RN Bhaskar | Nov 19, 2015 12:00 am
It is heartening to see the government pushing the GMS (Gold Monetisation Scheme). After decades, the government has finally become quite serious about mobilising...
Trump makes America weep
RN Bhaskar
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In the last article we talked about why Trump’s blustering remarks on oil may boomerang -- Free subscription -- https://open.substack.com/pub/bhaskarr/p/will-trump-get-bogged-down?r=ni0hb&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true. This time, we talk about how Trump is making America weep.
The US is...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-the-big-bio-revolution-has-begun-is-india-prepared
The big bio-revolution has begun. Is India prepared?
RN Bhaskar -- July 23, 2020
In 2019, McKinsey Global Institute’s team began researching the huge potential that developments on the bio-technology front held out for the world. To do that, laboratories began...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-case-for-bullion-banking-in-india
Will the government allow bullion banking in India?
RN Bhaskar -- 26 December 2019
India has been myopic about so many things. One of them, tragically, is gold. It has forgotten to exploit its own mines, It gave out licences to...
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Surging GNPAs are symptoms of a deeper malaise in governance
By RN Bhaskar
The cabinet reshuffle is over. At the end it looked like another tamasha. A colossal waste of time, just when all energies were required to bring India back...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/editorspick/nothing-is-quiet-on-the-farm-loan-waiver-front/1433503
The farm loan waiver front is getting messier
RN Bhaskar -- January 10, 2019
Fiscal discipline threatens to go entirely haywire – at least where some states are concerned.
And it has come in the form of farm-loan waivers. This author has...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-the-spectre-of-corruption-rises-grows-larger-and-is-fed-by-indian-politics
Corruption grows larger, economy and legislation take a back seat
RN Bhaskar
In January 2020, alarm bells were already ringing. India had s slipped from #78 in ranking on corruption last year to #80. The ranking was on the Corruption Perceptions...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rn-bhaskar-world-poverty-clock-pointers-for-india/1069774
India could learn a few things from the World Poverty Clock
— By RN Bhaskar | May 18, 2017 08:13 am
Asia could be getting out of poverty faster than many countries in the developing world. This -- and a great deal of...
