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Essays on public policy, technology, and geopolitics.

Date Title
Mar 2026 India is the Pharmacy of the World. But We Are Losing the Drug Development Race
Aug 2025 FTA and Public Health
Jul 2025 India-UK sign FTA
May 2025 What’s the point of a trade deal?
Aug 2023 1.5 stars for the rating system — How the rating system is breaking!
Apr 2023 How not to Regulate
Oct 2017 Consumer abandonment due to annoying ads
Oct 2017 Exclusion through apps
Jul 2017 The Indian (government’s) definition of luxury
Jul 2017 What will be done with the additional tax revenue?
Jun 2017 BRO at your service
May 2017 The threat of IT job losses in India
May 2017 You can be pro-poor without resorting to populism
Apr 2017 Do Anti-Poverty Programmes backfire?
Feb 2017 Time Lags in Price Mechanism
Feb 2017 Budget 2017 and the Digital Economy
Dec 2016 Does the Govt. need to go cashless?
Nov 2016 Trump, globalisation, and Indian trade
Nov 2016 Aftermath of Venezuelan Socialism
Oct 2016 Boycotting Chinese goods: Impractical and harms the national interest
Oct 2016 Commercial models for Public Wi-Fi
Sep 2016 Structural Reforms: What are they and how do you go about it?
Aug 2016 Problems with Movement of Goods within India
May 2016 Karnataka vs. Cab-Aggregators (Part II)
May 2016 Rent Control in Mumbai
Apr 2016 A Ban on Surge Pricing will Create Shortages
Apr 2016 Distortionary Public Policy
Mar 2016 8th Standard Pass Yaake?
Mar 2016 Geoeconomics Round-up
Mar 2016 Allocative Efficiency vs. Social welfare
Feb 2016 Budgets, Cigarettes, and MRP
Feb 2016 Why are petrol prices not decreasing?
Feb 2016 Growth, Urbanisation, and Poverty Reduction in India
Feb 2016 Price of Dosas
Feb 2016 Karnataka vs Cab-Aggregators
Feb 2016 Inflation in India — Part 2
Feb 2016 Inflation in India — Part 1
Feb 2016 Aftermath of Venezuelan Socialism
Jan 2016 Changes in FDI Regulation in 2015
Jan 2016 Postcard from Kodaikanal
Jan 2016 Has Modi lost the Narrative Dominance?
Jan 2016 Flavoursome Financial Instruments
Jan 2016 Taking advantage of lower commodity prices
Jan 2016 The Chinese Debt Burden
Jan 2016 Brazilian Economy in the Doldrums
Jan 2016 Ministry of Risk Management
Dec 2015 Karnataka’s confounding solar policy
Nov 2015 Upholding Economic Freedom
Sep 2015 Costly Holidays
Sep 2015 Glittery Alternatives
Aug 2015 The Need for Clarity in the Revised IFC
Aug 2015 A Fiscal Lesson for Monetary Policy
Jul 2015 Central Bank Independence — Part II
Jul 2015 The Macroeconomic Case for Central Bank Independence — II
Jul 2015 The Macroeconomic Case for Central Bank Independence — I
Jul 2015 Central Bank Independence — Part I
Jul 2015 Divergence between Wholesale and Retail Inflation
Jul 2015 Do ‘Make in India’ and ‘Startup India’ go together?
Jun 2015 Snippets from the Greek Crisis
Jun 2015 Deadly Taxes
Jun 2015 The Economic Consequences of Debt Repayment
Jun 2015 Demonetising a currency
Jun 2015 Narendra Modi’s One Year — A review of reviews
May 2015 Potential Output — Importance and Estimation
May 2015 The Pritchett Test for Evaluating Policy Programs
Apr 2015 Why is the Dollar the World’s Reserve Currency?
Apr 2015 The Murky Connections between Trade and Exchange Rate
Apr 2015 Using Price Discrimination to ensure Net Neutrality
Apr 2015 Does a strong currency mean a strong economy?
Feb 2015 Making Sense of India’s Latest GDP Figures
Feb 2015 Snapshot of India’s Export Industries
Feb 2015 Deflationary trend in the world economy
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