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| March 26, 2007 | | Why modern retailers and grocery stores can coexist
People with low incomes will keep visiting local grocery stores for the credit facilities, whereas the middle and upper income households would love to do their monthly shopping from the modern format retail stores.
Level playing field and market access
These are the two issues that top the WTO agenda and unless they are addressed, the round is going nowhere.
This success has no fathers
The latest estimates of poverty reduction in the country, put out by the National Sample Survey (NSS), are unique in that they have not been welcomed by anyone.
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| March 21, 2007 | | Inflation in India: How to tackle it
India must think about a revaluation of the rupee to curb inflation, while simultaneously addressing the constraints on the supply side on food grains through increase in domestic production.
Build to last or sell?
In today's knowledge economy, in nine cases out of ten, people build firms with a clear idea of not just wanting to sell but often to whom and when
India and sore points in land acquisition
Assessing a just compensation is only one hurdle that contributes to delays in infrastructure projects.
How important is privatisation in India?
There is no industry in India where the licence-permit raj hinders entry more than in the case of banking.
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| March 19, 2007 | | PSUs can't be more equal than others
India needs $70bn of private investment in infrastructure and will not get it without a level playing field.
Yen exchange rate and hedge funds
The yen and hedge funds are at centre stage, but what will happen if China diversifies into holding the yen.
Saving Doha
Commerce Minister Kamal Nath has done a great job to try and break the Doha deadlock and get the leading players to now set a new deadline to get things sorted out, but if he is serious about things, India needs to change its tactics somewhat.
Are the stock markets rational?
Ongoing global events will obviously impact the stock markets through FIIs, but don't underestimate the role of economic growth in driving the Sensex.
Manmohan Singh on financial system
Excerpts from an address by Prime Minister at the roundtable sponsored by The Economist on March 13.
Making private equity work in India
By some measures, India is poised to become the next big market in private equity.
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| March 16, 2007 | | Return of the one-minute movie
User-created one-minute videos have been around ever since the dramatic drop in the price of video cameras.
'Mumbai real estate prices should be competitive'
Real estate prices in Mumbai, and most cities around the country, have skyrocketed in the past one year. Since Mumbai still remains the price-setter for the rest of the country, let us understand the dynamics of real estate prices in this city.
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| March 13, 2007 | | 10 reasons why FBT on ESOPs is wrong
My concern with the proposal to apply FBT to ESOPs at the date of exercise is not that it is in respect of services as an employee, but more that its impact on other tax issues have not been thought through.
Do we need laptops?
Are the laptop's days somewhat numbered ?
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