Ajit Ranade

Ajit Ranade: State funding of polls: Not a good idea

Unless electoral reforms are fully implemented, a piecemeal step can be both counterproductive and dangerous

Ajit Ranade: Correcting the skew through the Budget

Rising income and wealth inequality needs a correction

Ajit Ranade: Is NREGS stealing labour?

The coexistence of both job and labour shortages points to the urgent need to tweak the scheme and reform labour laws

Ajit Ranade: Lowering the Stock of Exchanges

The ban on listing and other roadblocks on ownership have tainted the Jalan Committee report

Ajit Ranade: Imbalance among economists

Charles Ferguson's film Inside Job reveals the seamy side of academia

Ajit Ranade: Black swan in micro-finance

The Andhra ordinance and SKS IPO have abruptly changed the industry's prospects

Ajit Ranade: The optimum value of scarce resources

Optimal extraction of non-renewable resources might require that those rights be offered through auctions. But not always

Ajit Ranade: Of animal spirits and proteins

We cannot let it become conventional wisdom that the poor eating well is contributing to food inflation

Ajit Ranade: Multilateralism Fatigue

Better to focus on bilateral deals rather than waste resources on multinational talk fests.

Ajit Ranade: A cat that catches mice

China's treatment of General Electric and the BJP illustrates Deng's pragmatic philosophy

Ajit Ranade: Labour and capital - An unequal tussle

Labour disputes are a manifestation of the global struggle of the working classes to gain a larger share of growth

Ajit Ranade: Benefiting from Chinese FDI

China?s surplus foreign exchange reserves and India?s long-term fund requirement complement each other

Ajit Ranade: Corporate cash and fiscal crash

Is sustained corporate profitability simply the flip side of the fiscal mess

Ajit Ranade: Taxing the unborn

Infrastructure is built for the future generations, and hence they must share the burden

Ajit Ranade: A spat swallows RBI's autonomy

Downgrading RBI's standing is an unwitting collateral damage of the ordinance

Handbook rich in ideas and data: Ajit Ranade

Ajit Ranade: Neither too cruel, nor too kind

Pragmatism, perseverance, patience, persistence - and a lot of detailed work

Ajit Ranade: Small is manageable

Smaller states facilitate better governance and, strangely, help strengthen federalism

Central banker's primer for the aam aadmi

Ajit Ranade: Cracks in Micro Foundations

Ominously low levels of trust capital need to be urgently revived