-The Hindu Business Line Going by the experience worldwide, it is unlikely to generate jobs in the formal sector Changes in land and labour laws are the two most important components of the second generation of economic reforms. Since early 1990, a slew of economic reforms have been initiated in almost all sectors. However, the governments in power from 1990 through 2014 did not introduce radical changes in the prevailing land and...
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Cartel hoarding dal stocks abroad to jack up prices: IB -Dipak K Dash
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Intelligence Bureau (IB) has alerted the government about importers of pulses resorting to cartels to make a killing this year on red lentils (masoor). The report has named companies that are buying masoor in large quantities and cornering stocks in Canada, which is the largest exporter of red lentils to India. According to rough estimates, last year dal importers had reportedly made around Rs 3,500...
More »Land pooling looks fertile, but Dholera farmers not reaping benefits -Namita Kohli
-Hindustan Times A little over a 100 kms south from the city of Ahmedabad, in the lush green cotton fields, speckled with creamy white cotton buds, locals will regale you with stories of farmers who sold their land and got rich. There is one about a few farmers in a nearby village, who sold their land to a corporate and bought the “chaar bangle waali car” (referring to the Audi logo)....
More »Think different on infrastructure
-The Hindu When the going gets tough, public investment must be stepped up to pump-prime a slow-moving economy facing uncertain headwinds of low commodity prices and faltering International Trade. When the going is good, the private sector would also have a role to play, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said, vowing to ramp up infrastructure investments in 2016-17. Ten months ago, in his first Budget for a full financial year, Mr....
More »Destruction of the Doha Round
-Economic and Political Weekly India plays a poor hand at the World Trade Organization's negotiations. The idea that there is no longer a sharp divide between the global North and the global South has been disproved in ample measure by the decisions taken last month in Nairobi at the 10th ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The essence of the final communique is that the 14-year-old Doha “Development” Agenda (DDA)...
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