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...
R N Bhaskar
17 August 2015
The stench of bribery is up in the air once again. This time, it is disclosure that a US company, Louis Berger, paid bribes to two Goa legislators to win a contract. At least one...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/prepare-yourself-financial-turbulence-ahead/809974
Prepare yourself, financial turbulence ahead
— By RN Bhaskar | Mar 23, 2016 12:01 am
Last fortnight, Paytm, the mobile payments firm, declared that it will increase its seller base on its online marketplace multifold to 500,000 by March 2017, compared to...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/rural-incomes-worse-than-previously-imagined-r-n-bhaskar/1340980
The rural sector earns very little says Nabard
— By RN Bhaskar | Aug 23, 2018
The latest Nabard survey on All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey 2016-17 -- https://www.nabard.org/auth/writereaddata/tender/1608180417NABARD-Repo-16_Web_P.pdf -- points to a bigger farm crisis than had been imagined earlier.
Just take...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/indias-expensive-solar-power-birth-pangs/
Oct 01, 2015 12:19 am
Amidst all the euphoria about India’s tremendous progress in incremental solar power addition, there is a sudden realisation that all is not picture perfect. Not yet.
The most painful part is the cost at which...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/r-n-bhaskar-relevance-of-amul-in-indias-page-part-2/746598
Why Amul Matters – II
The government becomes its biggest threat. . . . .
On 14 May 2015, Jethabhai P Patel, chairman of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) made some very important statements that should make India’s...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/foreign-direct-investment-good-news-and-bad/1213111
Anxious times for India's FDI
— By RN Bhaskar | Feb 01, 2018 07:43 am
On 22 January UNCTAD announced that global flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) had fallen by 16% in 2017 to an estimated US$1.52 trillion, from a revised US$1.81...
Loans will continue to rise if unemployment is not eased
RN Bhaskar
Last week India’s central bank, the RBI, revised and tightened norms for borrowings, raised risk weights for personal loans and credit cards. That will make the cost of borrowing...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-wrong-diagnosis-and-refusal-to-accept-warning-signals-were-responsible-for-indias-slippage
India's economy - the clock is invariably slow
Ah! the clock is always slow.// It is later than you think
– Robert W Service
(https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46651/it-is-later-than-you-think)
RN Bhaskar
There was a time when most people had the confidence that the economy would be pulled...
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...
