Can’t buy me an election with budget freebies
“Can’t buy me love,” sang the Beatles. “Can’t buy me an election” is the theme of this year’s budget. Finance
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Budget 2013: Finance minister P Chidambaram boldly votes for growth over politics
Never before has a finance minister rejected populist giveaways so decisively in an election year. Never before has a finance
Read moreEconomic Survey 2013 paints a rosy picture yet again, but needs follow up
Happy days are here again, says the pre-budget Economic Survey. GDP growth is going to pick up from this year’s
Read moreAttempts to clear stalled projects will soon result in higher growth
The Indian economy presents a puzzle today. On the one hand, it exhibits many symptoms of overheating. On the other
Read moreOur tax system should go the ASEAN way
To meet a budget crunch, taxes on income, capital gains and dividends have gone up in the US, and may
Read moreNew economic activism has strong political roots
Six months ago, the government was seen as a hopeless, paralysed ditherer, frightened of annoying anybody (especially Mamata Banerjee). But
Read moreFrom kirana store budgets to open budgets
Once, budget proposals were top secret. The Finance Minister wouldn’t breathe a word on budget-related matters for months before the
Read moreHigher yields & farmer preferences show, BT cotton detractors spreading patent falsehoods
Last week, Greenpeace’s chief in India, Samit Aich, wrote a column in ET on genetically-modified crops. In this, he repeated
Read moreHow an anti-GM activist learned the science of high-yield crops and became a campaigner for GM
Mark Lynas, a green activist who once ranted against and destroyed fields of genetically modified (GM) crops, has recanted and apologised for “demonising an important
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