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To win the deep-tech race, India needs ‘General Innovation Rules’India is launching ambitious science initiatives. However, current financial rules designed for conventional procurement hinder R&D. A new ...- Mutual Fund PMS vs direct mutual funds: Why the smarter option may not be the more expensive oneIf you’re considering mutual fund portfolio management services (MF-PMS), ask three questions. First, can the manager show post-fee returns...
- Paying extra for MF-PMS? Here’s what investors get and what they may lose on returnsPMS-style mutual fund advisory can fetch you a curated selection of funds with allocation and execution embedded. This convenience faces a ...
- How ultrasound plays critical role in healthcare and why PC-PNDT Act deserves careful reformIndia's PC-PNDT Act, enacted to curb female foeticide, has had a modest impact on sex ratios over 30 years. While the law's intent is valid...
- Musk’s $158 billion payday is a lot like Tesla stock: full of hot airElon Musk's massive $158 billion compensation package from Tesla highlights stark economic disparities. While workers face stagnant wages a...
- Quote of the Day by Nobel winning economist Milton Friedman, “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert...” – Does Friedman's critique of government still apply in 2026? What does this powerful quote reveal about government efficiency, economic freedom, and modern life lessons?Quote of the Day by Nobel winning economist Milton Friedman: Global public spending has crossed $30 trillion in 2026. Efficiency remains a ...
- CEA against concept of Universal Social Security as it may generate 'perverse incentives'The Chief Economic Advisor of India, V Anantha Nageswaran, has rejected the idea of Universal Social Security for the country, saying it wo...
- Govts extends re-export timeline for imported containers by 3 monthsWhile the policy is designed to discourage long dwell time of containers and to promote faster turnaround, the government said that it has ...
- India has created ‘perverse incentives’ for firms to stay small. Here's how to fix itIncentives meant to help Indian SMEs have an unintended and undesirable result. Most small businesses start small and stay small throughout...
- India needs efficient supervision, simple regulation: Sanjeev SanyalThe problem is that supervision demands active monitoring and accountability from the government departments or regulatory bodies, which cr...
- Size-based incentives should not stop companies from growing big, says CEAWe need to respect wealth creators but the wealth creation has to happen in the right way.
- Incentives must shift from dwarf to infant firmsSurvey says when sops are provided to MSMEs irrespective of age, ‘perverse’ incentives are created for firms to stay small.
- Economic Survey 2019: Focus on infant firms, not dwarfs for job creationJob creation in India suffers from policies that foster dwarfs, that is, small firms that never grow.
- Cost recovery in oil contracts leads to perverse incentives and delayEstimates suggest that petroleum crude in situ in Indian waters may be large enough to meet our oil requirements for two whole decades and ...
- Power Grid collapse: Political spine must penalise violation of grid disciplineThe grid failure underscores the fact that politically powerful states can overdraw power from the grid with impunity, and get away with it.
- Wind power needs a tax incentive on the power producedOn the list of items on which revenue has been forgone on account of various tax incentives to boost output, the head 'accelerated deprecia...
- Microfinance in India is like subprime lending: Y V ReddyFormer RBI governor Y V Reddy said what many finance experts believed, but did not have the courage to admit publicly that microfinance is ...
- Reform miningNational Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), our largest iron ore producer and exporter, has an embarrassingly huge market cap, thanks ...
- Further tax incentives unwarrantedWe clearly need to rationalise both direct and indirect taxes in petroleum.
- Pharma research set to get booster doseThe Budget may dole out some fiscal incentives to encourage research and development by pharmaceutical companies, which are already under p...
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