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Business News > Mint Authors > Rajeev Mantri

Rajeev Mantri

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ARTICLES BY RAJEEV MANTRI

File photo of former Niti Aayog vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya. Photo: Mint (MINT_PRINT)

Book review | India Unlimited - Reclaiming The Lost Glory by Arvind Panagariya

4 min read . 19 Jun 2020

Liberalize India’s IPO regulations

4 min read . 23 Jul 2018

Technological advances are, again, turning manufacturing from a labour game into a capital game. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

India’s opportunity to lead the world in 5G

4 min read . 24 Apr 2018

Reliance Industries, in a corporate filing explaining the Reliance Jio value proposition, compared 3G to a dripping faucet and 4G to a shower. Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint

Policy challenges of new technology

4 min read . 23 Apr 2018

There has been much public debate and hand-wringing about the slowdown in private investment. As the well-known song goes, growth follows investment, and without investment future growth will remain muted. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint

Technological deflation and structural reform

4 min read . 06 Mar 2018

India’s banking system is still mired in crisis as companies, primarily in steel, power and infrastructure, have been unable to repay loans. Photo: AFP

How to fix the banking sector and make double-digit economic growth the new normal

5 min read . 10 Aug 2017

India needs over $1.5 trillion in the next decade to build infrastructure, and has thus far been looking abroad. With some creative policy thinking, a part of the solution might be found at home, especially for areas like crop storage and irrigation where several regions still lag behind. Photo: HT

How to build agriculture infrastructure and make double-digit economic growth the new normal

4 min read . 10 Aug 2017

Photo: Hindustan Times

Dissolving India’s medical guild

6 min read . 08 Oct 2016

Not only does the Indian Left enjoy state patronage and a pervasive grip on academia, it has a long history of being viciously intolerant towards contrary viewpoints. Photo: PTI

How to break the back of India’s Left-wing ecosystem

6 min read . 22 Feb 2016

It’s important to recognize that private capital markets have now evolved to include all stages of company financing, from angel and seed funding for new ventures to substantial growth equity funding for high-growth start-ups. Photo: Mint

India’s private capital revolution

5 min read . 10 Oct 2015

PMKVY goes beyond ITIs. However, it takes a completely different approach to skilling and educating India that is bottom-up and designed to adjust dynamically to market demand. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

IITs to ITIs—Modi’s voucher revolution in skill development?

6 min read . 13 Aug 2015

A file photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Photo: AP

Hindus don’t always have equality with minorities

7 min read . 19 Mar 2015

The Censor Board is an anachronistic institution that must be dissolved. India should embrace absolute freedom of speech, and should do away with the first amendment to the Constitution that places reasonable restrictions on speech.

Of writers and poets who criticize with their pens

6 min read . 23 Jan 2015

Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin can disaggregate, decentralize and disintermediate financial services. Photo: AFP

Cryptocurrencies can transform financial services

7 min read . 08 Dec 2014

America’s commanding strength in higher education powers its whole economy and endows the country with a formidable strategic edge over rivals and competitors. Photo: Bloomberg

Liberate higher education to compete in the knowledge economy

5 min read . 02 Sep 2014

A seemingly steep cut in the corporate tax rate from 30+% to 20% may seem untenable, but it is actually both practicable as well as beneficial for the Indian economy. Photo: Bloomberg

Cut the corporate tax rate to 20%

4 min read . 11 Aug 2014

The key insight one derives from Gary Becker is that in competitive markets, discrimination hurts those who practice it as much as those who are discriminated against. Photo: Bloomberg

India must promote market competition to eradicate social discrimination

6 min read . 04 Jun 2014

Narendra Modi, by advocating for a secularism grounded in individual rights, has shown that there is a better alternative. And this alternative has won the support of millions of Indians. Photo: Reuters

A singularity moment in Indian politics

6 min read . 27 May 2014

Saving secularism from the ‘secularists’

6 min read . 30 Mar 2014

While campaigning in Madhya Pradesh, Rahul Gandhi launched a scathing attack on the principal opposition Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) ‘capitalist politics’. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

The morality of markets

5 min read . 24 Feb 2014