Monthly Archives: October 2012

October 16, 2012

Untenable critiques sowing confusion on supposed ill-effects of retail FDI

Retail sector liberalisation has been revived and included in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s package of big-bang reforms announced recently. This was to be expected as an element of the package since the influential minister Jairam Ramesh, who has access to … Continue reading

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October 2, 2012

A time for gaffes

I was reminded of Edna O’Brien’s novel, August is a Wicked Month, when two scandals erupted last month – one, predictably, in the financial sector and the other, more surprisingly, in the journalistic sector. BBC News (August 10) and Reuters … Continue reading

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