Page 12 - Bs Opinion

Govts can't create jobs

The less they focus on employment creation, the better it may be for the economy

Budget 2022: All you want to know but don't always ask

The big elephant in the room is LIC. Every effort is on for its IPO. If that happens, and it probably will, the FY22 fiscal deficit could be less than the estimated 6.8 per cent

Markets: Fooling most people most of the time

Cyclical stocks have been valued as growth stocks, while small-cap stocks with slightly improved earnings have relentlessly risen

Tax when you want to spend

Raise the tax-GDP ratio to finance rising revenue expenditure

BS Views of the week: Recovery in consumer sentiment; challenges facing FM for this year's Budget

Let them eat communalism

While UP's unemployed are angry, Yogi's call for a choice between Jinnah and Sardar Patel, more than seven decades after they both died, is the new 'let them eat cake'

Art and memory

In the timeless expanse of mythology, the great flood is the source of a vast body of legend, folklore and gods and goddesses

Modi's truths, government's credibility

'One can't understand why, for example, the shifting of the Amar Jawan Jyoti had to be done so quietly', says the author

The tricky territory of free speech

Free speech absolutists (Disclosure: I'm one) generally don't censor pseudoscience

Political economy of regulatory reform

Dynamic markets call for periodic reform of regulatory agencies-notwithstanding their reluctance to keep pace with developments

The economics of electoral promises

India needs a debate as to what percentage of general government revenue can be used for subsidies and cash transfers

Bending India's emissions curve

To build a green and competitive India, we have to strive for net zero

Credibility of govt accounting

Are official revenue-expenditure records evaluated critically and exhaustively enough?

Charaiveti: An academic's journey-13

If there was any economist who deserved more than one Nobel Prize it was Kenneth Arrow, whom I have always regarded as the greatest economist of the 20th century

Building up connections in Central Asia

Since 1991, New Delhi's ties with the Central Asian countries have developed slowly despite a shared culture and trade links via the ancient Silk Road

Budget-making during recovery

The challenges before the coming Budget are more daunting than those in 2021

Indian cricket's 'virat' problem

Slowly but surely, the game of cricket is changing character

The growth vs value debate

With oil prices and inflation rising once again, markets are back to early 2021

Conflict of interest in parliamentary panels

While it's up to the government to educate parliamentarians to make their committees meaningful, shouldn't the ones who own industry be kept away from such panels?

Stemming water insecurity

Agriculture is, by far, the largest consumer of water, accounting for more than 80 per cent of the water-use