Page 2 - Indira Rajaraman

Indira Rajaraman: The Ides of March

If fiscal discipline is sought by curbing public expenditure on infrastructure, the long-term potential growth rate will get curtailed

Indira Rajaraman: Stallflation

Markets for land and labour have to be reformed to address the combination of stalled growth and persistent inflation

Indira Rajaraman: November blues

The unifying factor across both the immediate growth requirement and the longer environmental concern is the worldwide call for fiscal resources

Indira Rajaraman: Food security and fiscal laxity

For a political government eyeing the next elections, fiscal profligacy and entrenched inflation are not winning strategies

Indira Rajaraman: Coal and the CAG

Corrective action on the coal scam must not be such as to impose further obstructions to production of coal from the blocks allotted

Indira Rajaraman: The power grid knockout

The electricity deficit is the worst of the multiple deficits plaguing the Indian economy today

Indira Rajaraman: Queen Elizabeth's finest hour

Her query to economists on a visit to LSE, as to why they couldn't foresee the 2008 global crash, marked her finest hour

Indira Rajaraman: Wanted - new financial instruments

Financial markets should set out to address two key structural problems: land acquisition and gold imports

Indira Rajaraman: Is Bihar a special category state?

Separate fiscal consideration is given to special category states because their hilly terrain imparts a cost disability in public service provision

Indira Rajaraman: Tackling the fiscal deficit, lightly

The deficit reduction projected in the Medium-Term Fiscal Plan is directionally right, if not ambitious

Indira Rajaraman: Governance and information

Citizens with more information about local government spending will be able to monitor their performance