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Economy

Going for gold

The increase in the duties and levies on gold in the Budget are only a continuation of earlier initiatives aimed at curbing the appetite for the metal
G. SRINIVASAN
Economy

Fearing return of inspector raj

Interview with Rajiv Jain, chairman of the Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council.
G. SRINIVASAN
Economy

Negative signal

Moody's issues a raft of revisions on ratings of Indian banks, first downgrading the SBI's financial strength and now that of Syndicate Bank.
G. SRINIVASAN
Economy

Losing momentum

Economists caution that unless the authorities come up with an agenda of action, the incipient slowdown can get entrenched.
G. SRINIVASAN

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C. Rangarajan: India is one country where the growth rate is still high, above 7 per cent'.-

Primary concern is to control inflation'

Interview with C. Rangarajan, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council.
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The neoliberal TRIO-

Fragile growth

INDIAS economic development over the past 25 years has been a long journey down the road to a more market-driven and globally integrated neoliberal re
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Amartya Sen at a seminar in New Delhi on December 17, 2009.-RAJEEV BHATT

Making peoples lives better

The Nobel citation this year has a sweep that is noteworthy; it covers your work in economic theory and on the issues of famine, deprivation and inequ

Rural India in ruins

A MOST remarkable and disastrous feature of the last five years of National Democratic Alliance (NDA) rule in India, has been the slide-back to levels
Potatoes dumped in a field along the Hapur-Garh Mukteshwar Highway near Hapur in western Uttar Pradesh after the farmer failed to find a buyer.-RAJEEV BHATT

A surplus of problems

IN Hapur, a fertile agricultural belt in western Uttar Pradesh, a bumper harvest of sugarcane and potato has given much anguish to the farmers, for th
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