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Capital Calculus | Anil Padmanabhan 10:56 PM | May 20,2012
India took an in-principle decision to allow foreign direct investment from Pakistan; the two countries also opened an integrated check-post - the second at the Wagah border -to allow easier trade ties
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Capital Calculus | Anil Padmanabhan 12:32 AM | May 14,2012
The special Sunday session of Parliament is indeed a great moment for Indian democracy, it is apparent that the challenges ahead are equally, if not more, daunting
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Capital Calculus | Anil Padmanabhan 12:57 AM | May 10,2012
If the Congress believes it needs a politician at the helm to ready an electorally-saleable spending agenda ahead of the crucial 2014 election, then the choice may be rural development minister Jairam Ramesh
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Capital Calculus | Anil Padmanabhan 10:17 PM | May 06,2012
Progressive self-inflicted wounds have forced a policy paralysis, diminishing India’s growth prospects and consequently making it less attractive to investment
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Capital Calculus | Anil Padmanabhan 01:15 AM | April 30,2012
Growing frustration of unemployed youth, together with rising inequality, offers a potently dangerous mix that should worry everyone alike
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Capital Calculus | Anil Padmanabhan 11:32 PM | April 22,2012
Though inequality is a hot-button issue globally, in India it still remains largely below the radar
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Capital Calculus | Anil Padmanabhan 06:03 PM | April 16,2012
With violent clashes in several countries across Europe, especially with youth unemployment threatening to climb to 50%, time is not on the side of the authorities
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Capital Calculus | Anil Padmanabhan 10:08 PM | April 08,2012
A market-based economy, which by its very nature is agnostic in its logic and only uses the price point where demand matches supply to square off among its participants, will not represent the poor; even those who can articulate demand are not equally placed
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Capital Calculus | Anil Padmanabhan 11:42 PM | April 01,2012
While understanding Union budgets is an effort, following a Five-Year Plan is a difficult task to even comprehend
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Capital Calculus | Anil Padmanabhan 12:05 AM | March 26,2012
The big question then is whether he will make good this opportunity
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Capital Calculus | Anil Padmanabhan 12:42 AM | March 20,2012
More worrying is the dangerously high incidence of poverty among casual labourers in urban areas
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Capital Calculus | Anil Padmanabhan 12:49 AM | March 12,2012
What UPA are increasingly articulating is a desire for the policy process to be far more participative and the end of the business-as-usual budget
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Capital Calculus | Anil Padmanabhan 11:29 PM | March 11,2012
What UPA are increasingly articulating is a desire for the policy process to be far more participative and the end of the business-as-usual budget
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Capital Calculus | Anil Padmanabhan 10:44 PM | March 09,2012
A review of the data reveals that BSP lost 10 seats by less than 1,000 votes, 11 seats by 1,000-2,000 votes and four by 2,000-3,000 votes; going by the political thumb rule, less than 3,000 votes is considered a narrow margin
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Capital Calculus | Anil Padmanabhan 01:15 AM | March 05,2012
According to the World Development Indicators published by the World Bank, the Indian economy nearly doubled from $460 billion in 2000 to $834 billion in 2005, and then yet again in the next five years to $1.72 trillion in 2010—in short, it has grown nearly four times in the last decade
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