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Drought: A ringing silence

Only 80-odd MPs were present when the Lok Sabha finally found time on Thursday to discuss the drought, which, by the Centre’s own admission, has affected about 33 crore people across 256 districts in 10 […]

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Coming clean

India could teach China a thing or two about dealing with bad debt. Banks in the world’s two most populous countries have lent hundreds of billions of dollars to politically connected companies that are now […]

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DOES DIVERSITY HAMPER ECONOMIC PROGRESS?

If you see litter on the street, or encounter broken bridges, you are likely to just blame the local administration. Economists, however, will wager that there could be deeper forces at work, which hinder the […]