What the NEP can achieve

'Education will definitely benefit by making the child's first language the medium of instruction, by making examinations less prone to rote-learning, by setting up national research universities,......

Why our institutions are producing unemployable Indians

'I did not bother to collect my diploma certificate because the course was a waste of time and more or less useless.''It would be instructive for me to describe it because manufacturing is seen as......

Is it Modi's job to get Indians to be clean?

'This is social reform, which has to be conducted from within society and by its institutions, like religious bodies, not by public officials and ministers.' 'That is why I think the big change......

India'll take 34 yrs to attain 1950 US levels

Despite being a "star performer" in terms of economic growth, India will take at least another 34 years to achieve the 1950s' GDP level of the United States, a senior World Bank economist said in......

Multiple crisis and what lies ahead for the global economy

The world economy is in worse shape than since the United States tremors initially rolled across the globe in 2008, says Ashoka Mody. Pedestrians walk towards the (L-R) Irish, Greek, Spanish and......

Multiple crisis the world economy is dealing with

The world economy is in worse shape than since the United States tremors initially rolled across the globe in 2008, says Ashoka Mody. Pedestrians walk towards the (L-R) Irish, Greek, Spanish and......

It's a good time to position India as a manufacturing hotspot

Though growth in China is unlikely to slow down soon, India should prepare to take advantage of a shifting of gears there, says Nitin Pai. A working paper by Lant Pritchett and Lawrence Summers,......