The looming shadowJAYATI GHOSHRecent trade data confirm that the government's management of the external sector has made future balance of payments problems likely.
The G-15 and the WTOJAYATI GHOSHThere has been a singular lack of any concrete achievement at the Bangalore meeting.
Deja vu on the balance of payments frontJAYATI GHOSHOfficial inaction in the face of dramatically poor external trade trends may lead to another balance of payments crisis.
The coming crisisJAYATI GHOSHIn terms of both financial and real economic variables, deflationary pressures are today stronger than they have been at any time since the Great Depr
Swadeshi sold shortJAYATI GHOSHThe BJP, which once blustered about the negative aspects of globalisation, has embraced it wholeheartedly.
Pakistan's economy in for a joltJAYATI GHOSHTHE spate of nuclear testing by the Government of Pakistan could not have come at a worse time for the economy of that country. In fact, in both India
On sanctions and being sanctimoniousJAYATI GHOSHFor all the nationalist rhetoric of the BJP in the post-Pokhran-II milieu, the economic actions of its Government have only increased the country's de
Camouflaging realitiesJAYATI GHOSHThere are two specific areas of urgent concern: the continuing industrial recession and the fragile external sector.
BUDGET OPTIONSJAYATI GHOSHThere are difficult choices ahead of the Union Government in the formulation of the Budget for 1998-99.
Medievalism in practice and theoryJAYATI GHOSHTEN years ago this month, a young woman burned alive on the funeral pyre of her husband in Deorala, Rajasthan. This act of murder - or, at the very le
Is a reversal of bank nationalisation on the cards? Calls for privatisation have grown louder just as public sector banks clean up their balance sheets.
SlideshowThe hungry river Villages in West Bengal’s Malda and Murshidabad districts live under the constant threat of river erosion that eats up their homes overnight.