https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/debt-under-control-good-now-for-economic-growth/1387659
Debt and economic growth
RN Bhaskar November 1, 2018
Talk of debt is in the air. Everybody is talking about it. In fact there is a CARE Ratings study which looks at state and central government debt (Debt Profile of Centre...
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report-policy-watch-govt-control-not-the-best-way-to-manage-temple-trusts-1876444
Govt control not the best way to manage temple trusts
Should a government be allowed to control the funds of any community? Community leaders have begun posing this question, as one temple trust after another has got ‘nationalised’ by state...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/is-india-emerging-as-aircraft-repair-hub-r-n-bhaskar/1255629
Will the govt allow India's AIESL to emerge as Asia's aircraft repair hub?
— By RN Bhaskar | Apr 12, 2018
Last month, the government announced that it had appointed the consultancy firm EY as the transaction advisor for Air India’s strategic sale...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/policy-watch-indias-blighted-vision-about-gold-mining
Gold mining – part I
Can India have better policies relating to gold mining
RN Bhaskar -- 17 December 2020
Last week, media headlines screamed out information about the ‘theft’ of 100 kg of gold kept in the CBI vaults. An inhouse...
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...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/increasing-interdependence-of-japan-and-india/
Increasing interdependence of Japan and India
— By RN Bhaskar | Dec 16, 2015 12:00 am
Last week, Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, made his second trip to India during the Modi government’s tenure. On this occasion, Prime Minister Narendra Modi remarked...
R N Bhaskar
6 July 2015
For almost four decades since India’s independence, Germany saw immense opportunity in this country. True, there were hurdles. Managing the government wasn’t easy. Especially when many of the big businesses that Germany was interested in...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/when-the-inr-falls-it-is-easy-to-blame-gold-writes-rn-bhaskar
A weak INR and growing CAD are a result of poor gold policies
By RN Bhaskar
The RBI in its recent report (https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_ViewBulletin.aspx?Id=21137#FN14) states “Gold imports at US$ 2.6 billion in June 2022 were almost half the level of US$ 6.0...
https://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/too-soon-to-celebrate-storm-clouds-ahead-for-india
Is the worst over for the Indian economy?
RN Bhaskar
Most speculators seem quite upbeat after the pounding they have gone through during the recent bear phase. They believe that good times have begun. Maybe, they are right. It does look...
http://www.freepressjournal.in/analysis/business-with-thailand-could-grow-faster/1250669
Indians begin to look at Thailand for locating their businesses there
— By RN Bhaskar | Apr 05, 2018 08:22 am
Thailand is not unfamiliar to most Indian businessmen.
The Aditya Birla group was one of the first to discover the advantages of investing...