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"Making sense of Mexico", 'The Hindu', February 15, 1995 "The Eastern experience", 'The Hindu', March 14, 1995 "Budget 1995: Beating a retreat", 'The Hindu', March 28, 1995 "The current inflation", 'The Hindu', April 26, 1995 "Taking food seriously", 'The Hindu', June 10, 1995 "Moral hazard in government", 'The Hindu', Oct 12, 1995 "Will the government learn to tax?", 'The Hindu', November 18, 1995 "Central banks and autonomy", 'The Hindu', December 8, 1995 'Is saving the issue?', The Hindu, March 13, 1996 "Managing the inflation rate", 'The Hindu', April 30, 1996 "Strengthening the public sector", 'The Hindu', June 25, 1996 "Budget Imperatives: No time for short termism", 'Times of India', July 9, 1996 "Budget 1996: A constrained budget", 'The Hindu', July 30, 1996 'A capital idea?', The Hindu, 3 January, 1998 'The road to self reliance', The Hindu, 12 February, 1998 'Competition versus competitiveness', The Hindu, 18 September, 1998 'Legacy and currency', The Hindu, 8 January, 1999 'India’s competitiveness', The Hindu, 22 May, 1999 "Food security and panchayati raj", 'The Hindu', July 12, 1999 "Agriculture and the reforms: Growth", 'The Hindu', December 20, 1999 'Paradigm regained', The Hindu, 22 August, 1999 'The cost of free disposal', The Hindu, 1 October, 1999 "Agriculture and the reforms: Welfare", 'The Hindu', December 21, 1999 'Mr. Sinha’s side-show', The Hindu, 2 March, 2000 'The logic of competition', The Hindu, 13 June, 2000 'Policy changes and productivity', The Hindu, 30 December, 2000 'A tale of two Asias', The Hindu, 15 February, 2001 'Labour laws and output growth', The Hindu, 5 June, 2001 'An equal governance', The Hindu, 30 June, 2001 'Globalisation true, and false', The Hindu, 20 August, 2001 'India and the global slowing', The Hindu, 4 January, 2001 'Reforms at a time of fatigue', The Hindu, 3 March, 2002 'Waiting for foreign investment', The Hindu, 5 May, 2002 'Shedding darkness', The Hindu, September 13, 2002 'Romancing the rentier', The 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2017 "A non-state view of Kerala", 'The Hindu', May 4, 2017 "After globalisation's promise", 'The Hindu', July 18, 2017 "Banker with a cause: review of Raghuram Rajan's 'I Do What I Do'", 'The Hindu', October 14, 2017 "The price of fiscal folly", 'The Hindu', January 24, 2017 "Politics trumps ideology", 'The Hindu, February 2, 2017 "The economy in the time of Narendra Modi", 'The Hindu', June 5, 2017 "The RBI is off target", 'The Hindu', August 1, 2017 "Social revolution in a JAM", 'The Hindu', September 8, 2017 "Modi Government Isn’t Against Economic Growth, But Its Approach Is Flawed", 'The Wire', October 2, 2017 "Tackling the economic slowdown", 'The Hindu', October 3, 2017 “The grounding of Air India”, ‘The Hindu’, January 25, 2018 “Embracing the rural: Budget 2018”, invited, ‘The Hindu’, February 1, 2018 “When development brings loss”, ‘The Hindu’, March 28, 2018 "Prosperity in the 21st century", 'The Hindu', April 21, 2018 "An unexceptional economic performance", 'The Hindu', June 9, 2018 "High science with low development", 'The Hindu', August 22, 2018 "A demographic twist to democracy", by invitation, 'Deccan Herald', April 8, 2018 "Much must change in Kerala", 'The Hindu', September 11, 2018 "Independence and accountability: on RBI", 'The Hindu', November 9, 2018 "The architecture is not the force", 'The Hindu', December 5, 2018 "Why Modi failed to transform the economy", 'The Deccan Herald', January 15, 2019 "Investment over subsidies", 'The Hindu', January 29, 2019 "The employment test", 'The Hindu', February 21, 2019 "Reviving the community: review of 'The Third Pillar' by Raghuram Rajan", 'The Hindu', March 31, 2019 "Necessary steps to ending poverty", 'The Hindu', April 15, 2019 "An employment-oriented economic policy", 'The Hindu', May 1, 2019 "What a $5 trillion economy would look like", 'The Hindu', June 20, 2019 "Even central banks need 'capital' infusion", 'The Hindu', June 29, 2019 "The macro does not get with the micro", 'The Hindu', July 6, 2019 "Governing India through fiscal math", 'The Hindu', July 29, 2019 "The Kerala Model is Unsustainable", 'The Hindu', August 22, 2019 "Banking on the Banks for Expansion", 'The Hindu', September 2, 2019 "The Link between Jobs, Farming and Climate", 'The Hindu', October 1, 2019 "Financial stability and the RBI", 'The Hindu', October 15, 2019 "What makes doing business easier", 'The Hindu', November 6, 2019 "Bigger is Not Necessarily Better", 'The Hindu', December 3, 2019 "Bigger is Not Necessarily Better", 'The Hindu', December 3, 2019 "It's Not Hard to Believe that India's Consumption Expenditure Has Fallen", 'The Wire', December 23, 2019 "The perils of RBI's fixation on inflation", 'The Hindu', January 17, 2020 "A government that is clueless on the economy", 'The Hindu', February 2, 2020 "Modinomics in a spot of bother as growth slows in India", invited, 'East Asia Forum', March 4, 2020 "Nirmala Sitharaman should remember that a stimulus delayed is a quick recovery denied", 'The Wire', April 9, 2020 "India needs a strong fiscal stimulus", 'Hindustan Times', April 15, 2020 "Amend the FRBM Act, spend more", 'Hindustan Times', April 30, 2020 "Financing the COVID-19 economic package", 'Hindustan Times', May 14, 2020 "The economic package unpacked", 'Hindustan Times', May 18, 2020 "In the belly of the beast: Review of 'Back Stage' by Montek Singh Ahluwalia", 'The Telegraph', June 19, 2020 "To revive the economy Modi must turn to maximum government", 'Hindustan Times' June 21, 2020 "Adopting a public systems approach to COVID-19", 'The Hindu', July 29, 2020 "How to pay for the stimulus", 'The Hindu', August 6, 2020 "Reversing the economic reversal", 'Hindustan Times', September 7, 2020 "The RBI tunes in to the economy", 'The Hindu', October 15, 2020 "After COVID-19: Potential Challenges for Kerala's Economy", 'Ala', Issue 20, April 30, 2020 "Some of the COVID-19 mortality was avoidable", with Sreenath K Namboodhiry, 'The Hindu', November 24, 2020 "True Fiscal Responsibility", 'The Hindu', December 7, 2020 "In the Farm Debate: Focus on access to food", 'Hindustan Times', December 25, 2020 "Reshape spending, at the Centre and states", 'Hindustan Times', January 26, 2021 "The Big Gap in the Budget - An Expenditure Thrust", 'Hindustan Times', February 2, 2021 "Re-evaluating Inflation Targeting", with M.Parameswaran, 'The Hindu', March 17, 2021 "The Lesson for India in Joe Biden's Economic Gambit", 'The Wire', March 26, 2021 "The absent programme at the Kerala hustings", 'The Hindu', March 24, 2021 "Growth in India: Narratives and evidence", with Mausumi Das and M.Parameswaran, 'Ideas for India', April 15, 2021 "സാമ്പത്തികാസൂത്രണവും മഹാമാരിയും", with Sreenath Namboodhiry, 'Mathrubhumi', May 8, 2021 "Back in the shortage economy", 'The Hindu', May 10, 2021 "The economic toolkit revealed", 'The Hindu', June 2, 2021 "A hospital’s misplaced priorities", 'The Hindu', June 10, 2021 "A poverty trend in search of an explanation", 'The Hindu', June 16, 2021 "Recovery takes more than reforms", 'The Hindu', June 18, 2021 "The heavy footprint of a light rail", 'The Hindu', July 5, 2021 "Time to build a valuable economy", 'The Hindu', July 19, 2021 "Another colonial legacy", 'The Hindu', July 26, 2021 "It's the ecosystem, stupid!", 'The Hindu', August 11, 2021 "The National Monetisation Pipeline and the infrastructure deficit", 'The Hindu', September 6, 2021 "Identity and public policy", 'The Hindu', September 27, 2021 "The slowing economy", 'Malayala Manorama', September 27, 2017 "Development that is mindful of nature", 'The Hindu', October 23, 2021 "The debacle of demonetisation", 'The Hindu', November 16, 2021 "The price of food must figure in the policy", 'The Hindu', December 16, 2021 "The SilverLine project is anti-development", 'The Hindu', January 19, 2022 "Sri Lankan Lessons for India", 'The Hindu', April 19, 2022 "Inflation control needs another model", with M. Parameswaran, 'The Hindu', May 4, 2022 "The cost of misrepresenting the inflation", with M. Parameswaran, 'The Hindu', July 23, 2022 "How ideology muddled inflation control in India", 'The Hindu', September 8, 2022 "Why India Inc. is not taking a Hanuman Leap", 'The Hindu', October 10, 2022 "Census as a mirror to past and present", 'The Hindu', December 15, 2022 "More Paean, Less Economics, A book review", 'The Wire', January 28, 2023 "Averting a $10-trillion dystopia", 'The Wire', January 31, 2023 ''India must avoid growing ito a dystopia", 'The Hindu', February 10, 2023 "Brahmapuram as a policy game-changer for Kerala", 'The Hindu', March 16, 2023 "Corporate power and Indian inflation", 'The Hindu', April 13, 2023 "The fundamental value of the rupee", 'The Hindu', May 25, 2023 "At the root of India's manufacturing challenge", 'The Hindu', June 5, 2023 "Purging the nation's data of politics", 'The Hindu', July 8, 2023 "Ridding India of food insecurity", 'The Hindu', September 12, 2023 "Modinomics fails to buck the trend", 'The Hindu', October 12, 2023 "Making sense of the employment challenge", 'The Hindu', November 21, 2023 "Making sense of the employment challenge", 'The Hindu', November 21, 2023 "India's 1991 Crisis and the RBI Governor's Role", 'The Hindu', January 2, 2024 "Growth mania can be injurious to society", 'The Hindu', January 30, 2024 "Funding a welfare state that lasts", 'The Hindu', February 26, 2024 Book traversal links for Popular Economics ❮ "Caged parrots and universities", 'The Indian Express', October 6, 2023 Up "Budget 1991: Through a long tunnel, slowly", 'Times of India', Bangalore, August 4, 1991 ❯