https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/solar-power-shining-sun-fading-promises/1501865
Solar power: a story of missed opportunities
RN Bhaskar -- April 11, 2019
In February 2019, Bridge to India published its report for the fourth quarter...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/doles-freebies-elections-and-the-absence-of-accountability/1496631
Lots more doles mean much more corruption
RN Bhaskar April 4, 2019
The dice was rolled two years ago when the present government permitted loan waivers...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/it-is-time-india-reshaped-its-exim-strategies/1491174
India's EXIM needs restructuring
RN Bhaskar March 28, 2019
Within the next few months, India’s policymakers will have to decide how to restructure India’s Exim...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/the-fire-next-time/1485655
Economic development could get derailed?
RN Bhaskar -- March 20, 2019
The title has been borrowed from a 1963 non-fiction book by James Baldwin. The book...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/so-in-the-past-four-years-there-was-no-unemployment/1481401
Zero unemployment during the past four years? Wow!
RN Bhaskar -- March 14, 2019
Last week, on 8 March, 2019, almost unexpectedly, the Confederation of Indian...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/maharashtras-agricultural-woes-will-continue/1475943
Maharashtra and its water diversion
RN Bhaskar – 7 March, 2019
Maharashtra has one of the highest farmer suicide rates in India. It also has the...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/is-india-headed-for-further-currency-depreciation/1470652
Unproductive spending could easily lead to further currency depreciation
RN Bhaskar February 28, 2019
Turning and turning in a widening gyre//The falcon cannot hear the falconer.//Things...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/tripura-could-become-the-economic-powerhouse/1465094
Tripura could become the economic powerhouse for NE India
RN Bhaskar - 21 Feb 2019
Ten years ago, nobody could have imagined economically backward Tripura to...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/can-gst-actually-promote-a-cashless-economy/1459489
GST can even encourage cash transactions
RN Bhaskar February 14, 2019
There’s a restaurant in Ballard Estate in Mumbai which is frequented by many upper middle-class...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/does-the-budget-not-care-for-human-capital/1453862
Interim Budget and its indifference to human capital
RN Bhaskar February 7, 2019
At a time when election fever is at its peak, it is...









































