India faces a myriad of problems. Fundamental to solving them is the problem of an exploding population. It is easy to tell that I am obsessed with the problem. Continuing on from my last ruminations on India’s population problem, I… Read More ›
Month: June 2004
Rajesh Jain’s article in Business Standard on Rural Economic Development
Today’s Business Standard carries Rajesh Jain’s article on Transforming rural India, the hub way in which he discusses the RISC model.
The Leaky Bucket and Development
Continuing from my last post, The Art of Living, I would like to explore the question of why the population problem is important. To start off with, allow me an analogy. Consider a tub made of staves of differing lengths…. Read More ›
The Art of Living
If you have been following this blog for a bit, you would have noticed that I lay quite a bit of stress on the population problem which I believe underlies much of India’s present problems and I argue that unless… Read More ›
The Cupidity of the Indian Government
Yesterday’s post about the government’s anti-Midas touch concluded with the question of what explains the sordid performance of practically anything undertaken by the government. I believe that the answer has to do with what is called the objective function of… Read More ›
The Government’s Anti-Midas Touch
Continuing on where I left off the last time time, let’s once again quote Mr Bardhan: In a state like Delhi, for instance, can any private power distributor without an established work force be able to carry out electrification? The… Read More ›
Wrong-headed policies condemn millions to misery
Continuing from where I left off the last time, I quote again Mr A B Bardhan: I am against privatisation of the state electricity boards. I simply do not understand the merits of the decision of setting up state regulatory… Read More ›
The Privatization of Public Sector Units
The June 2nd Business Standard carried an opinion by Mr A B Bardhan, Secretary of the Communist Party of India, on the question “Should the disinvestment ministry be scrapped?” He said, Even Lord Keynes would not have approved of disinvestment!… Read More ›
The lighter side of outsourcing
Some time ago, I had posted a blog entry on the logic of outsourcing which quoted Russell Roberts of BusinessWeek Online. All very serious and good. I recently came across Dave Barry’s take on outsourcing and he does not disappoint.
A Dummy Post to help out search engines__
The name of this blog is Deeshaa where there are two e’s and two a’s. The reason I point it out is that I notice that many people make the mistake of thinking it is “Deesha” and they end up… Read More ›
