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More on Finance and Inclusive Growth

Posted by: Aadisht on: June 17, 2008

Suddenly, the idea that financial sophistication leads to inclusive growth seems to have caught on (well, except with the Ministry of Finance, which is actually in a position to do something about it). First there was my Pragati piece. Yesterday, Nivirkar Singh’s column in Mint also touched on this: Petia Topalova of the International Monetary [...]

From His Mother’s Womb Untimely Ripp’d

Posted by: Aadisht on: June 9, 2008

While I’m in favour of Indian newspapers doing more feature stories that go more in-depth than five hundred words and two soundbites, this Mint article on Caesarean sections is not the way to go. It’s poorly researched, inconclusive, meanders all over the place, and does too much New York Times level balancing of opposing opinions, [...]

Does Not Compute

Posted by: Aadisht on: February 5, 2008

(Cannot… resist… virgin… joke) Mint comes up with a perplexing paragraph: While this will be the first time Tata Teleservices will be partnering with a brand such as Virgin, Branson has already formed two similar alliances globally. (emphasis mine) So, it’s not Virgin’s first time, but it is Tata Teleservices’? I’m confused.

Even More on Land Sale Reform

Posted by: Aadisht on: February 5, 2008

Barun Mitra has a Mint oped today on why not allowing the free sale of agricultural land is a bad idea. Excerpts: Which leads us to the question: Why is it legitimate to acquire land for industrial use, but prohibit farmers from consolidating and expanding their landholding to improve agriculture? Why shouldn’t a farmer be [...]

Coasian Economics

Posted by: Aadisht on: November 16, 2007

Namy Roy wrote in and asked me if I’d read Niranjan Rajadhyakhsa’s column on Bangalore and the Coase Theorem, and suggested I blog about it. I had read the column on Wednesday itself, and thought of mentioning it in a post on kids in aeroplanes. Since I’m busy making the quiz, I won’t be writing [...]



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