… We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. Shakespeare’s The Tempest Writing in the Dec 28th, 2003 edition of The Week, President Kalam says, “In the 21st… Read More ›
Month: December 2003
Panchayat Raj
The anniversary special of the newsmagazine The Week of Dec 28th, 2003 has lots of stories of the warm and fuzzy feeling variety. I went through the breathless prose of a large number of luminaries in it, including that of… Read More ›
Dutch Disease Disturbing the Universe
Do I dare Disturb the universe? The Law of Unintended Consequences is pretty well known, I suppose. It is part of a more general law which I call the Zeroth Law of Ecology which says that you can never really… Read More ›
ADLI: A Lesson from the Age of Industrialization
The transition from an agrarian to an industrial society was the great challenge that faced economies before. Much attention was paid on ways to make the transition. Of the various models of development (such as export-led growth, import-substitution industrialization, and… Read More ›
India’s Development Experience
India’s rate of economic development has not been very impressive by most standards. But compared to what it was prior to independence, there is cause for celebration. At independence in 1947, India was an extremely poor country with an annual… Read More ›
Cognitive Dissonance
So here is something that does not surprise me in the least: Vajpayee has called for a common currency for the Indian subcontinent. Actions recommended and taken on the basis of pious hopes are par for the course. Let’s be… Read More ›
BPO and Kuznet’s Curves
These days one of the dangers of reading newspapers is that one is faced with yet another article on business process outsourcing (BPO) and how there is a backlash from specific sectors in the developed countries. It makes for breathless… Read More ›
Pricing Management Education
This is a continuation of my previous post on HRD and management institutes. I had ended that post with the recommendation: Increase fees to be more aligned to the fees for comparable schools around the world and provide student loans… Read More ›
India’s Biggest Blessing
This one is in the context of an entry on HP’s Thin Client at Rajesh Jain’s weblog. In response to a bunch of comments on that entry, Rajesh wrote to me: I think we will need to create the large… Read More ›
The Enemy Within
Anish Sankalia sent me an article where Andy Mukherjee warns that India’s Enemy Within Can Douse Explosive Growth. The enemy he identifies is government debt.
