Swaminomics

Is govt cooking up economic growth data?

Are India’s statistics just cooked up to give them a good flavour? The question has been raised by critics after

Foreign investors I met in Singapore in May were anxious to know whether Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram

The BJP’s loose cannon Subramanian Swamy has launched a scathing attack on RBI governor Raghuram Rajan, accusing him of tight

Booms and busts are not aberrations. They are intrinsic to market democracies. Many folks love the idea of steady, uninterrupted

For electoral success, economic development and electoral alliances are crucial, as shown by the results of five state elections last

The urban middle classes hate her, the rural masses love her. The middle classes hate to admit it, but in

Does GDP growth matter in state elections? A statistical exercise by this newspaper some years ago suggested that if average

Upamanyu Chatterjee once wrote a book titled The Mammaries of the Welfare State. If he visited Tamil Nadu today, he

Arvind Kejriwal should remember two elementary economic propositions when overhauling his odd-even scheme for cars. One, those who use public