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Bibek Debroy

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Name: Bibek Debroy

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Hostage to gloom: Empty malls reflect hollowness of India story

NEW DELHI: Malls were supposed to be the symbols of prosperity in India's 'boomtowns'. Instead they have turned out to be edifices of gloom. Notwithstanding their bright facade, these half-empty buildings in smaller towns reveal the other side of the ... [Published Economic Times - May 16 2013]

Entities: India, Hostage, Rudrapur (India), Bibek Debroy

First reported May 12 2013 - Updated May 12 2013 - 1 reports

'Indian comprehensive healthcare not ready yet'

There are miles to go before comprehensive healthcare becomes a reality for the people of India, agreed people's representatives, bureaucrats and economists at a panel discussion here."A country which has not been able to provide safe drinking to its ... [Published ProKerala.com - May 12 2013]

Entities: Sougata Roy, Health Care, Bibek Debroy, India

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

Role of State Machinery

, two days before he left India for the last time—and in controversial circumstances—Viceroy Lord Curzon delivered a remarkable speech at the Byculla Club in Bombay. The popular expectations from a Viceroy, he suggested, were unbearably exacting: “He ... [Published Jagran Post - May 06 2013]

Entities: Narendra Modi, India, Incompetence, Agriculture, Bibek Debroy

First reported Apr 23 2013 - Updated Apr 23 2013 - 1 reports

FY14 GDP forecast by PMEAC is slightly on the higher side: Bibek Debroy

In an interview with ET Now, Bibek Debroy, Professor, , shares his views on the PMEAC report and the economy. Excerpts:ET Now: PMEAC has projected growth rate of 6.4% for current fiscal, but a few people said that it was optimistic and their targets were ... [Published Economic Times - Apr 23 2013]

Entities: Bibek Debroy, Inflation, Divergence, Stimulant

First reported Apr 20 2013 - Updated Apr 21 2013 - 2 reports

Cash-Registers for hearts?

Many believe that Indian businessmen have cash registers for hearts. Their philanthropic contributions are believed to be insignificant in comparison to their wealth. According to the 2012 Forbes list, the wealth of the 100 wealthiest Indians is around ... [Published Smart Investor - Apr 21 2013]

Entities: India, Azim Premji, Ajay Shah, Ratan Tata

First reported Jan 19 2013 - Updated Jan 19 2013 - 1 reports

Manmohan Singh

Laughing up his sleeve

Basking in the praise of Western diplomats so much more satisfying than the accolades of Indian tycoons Narendra Modi must be laughing up his sleeve. First the fiasco of Tuesdays Bengal Leads non-event, now Sundays All-India Congress Committee with ... [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Jan 19 2013]

Entities: Narendra Modi, Manmohan Singh, India, Azim Premji

First reported Jan 08 2013 - Updated Jan 08 2013 - 1 reports

A Map of Economic Freedom in India

Ian Vásquez Economic freedom in India has improved notably since the beginning of the country’s market reforms in the early 1990s, stimulating high growth from a very low income base. Though India’s level of economic freedom is still low—it ranked 111 ... [Published Cato @ Liberty - Jan 08 2013]

Entities: India, Reformism, Ian Vasquez

First reported Dec 16 2012 - Updated Dec 16 2012 - 1 reports

Gujarat growth: the trickle down myth

Over the past few weeks, whenever I visited a senior state bureaucrat’s chamber in Gandhinagar Sachivalaya, I would invariably notice a coffee table book prominently displayed – “Gujarat: Governance for Growth and Development”, authored by Prof Bibek ... [Published Times of India Blogs - Dec 16 2012]

Entities: Bibek Debroy, Rajiv Gandhi

First reported Nov 27 2012 - Updated Nov 27 2012 - 1 reports

Coffee table Gujarat

Gujarat made news for riots a decade ago. Even by Indian standards, they were spectacular. Shooting and framing of innocent Muslims, killing of pregnant women, creation of hell on earth for people of just one religion such are the crimes for which a ... [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Nov 27 2012]

Entities: Bibek Debroy, Narendra Modi, Gandhinagar (India), Rioting, Bhavnagar

Quotes

"The bubble has burst," says economist Bibek Debroy. "there has been excess capacity in smaller towns and not so much demand. these boomtowns haven't seen a huge consumption story yet and salary levels too haven't increased the way they were expected to" he says

Hostage to gloom: Empty malls reflect hollowness of India story [Published Economic Times - May 16 2013]

"whether it is private toilets or whether it is public toilets, the lack of those in urban india is because of inefficient land usage policies" said Debroy

'Indian comprehensive healthcare not ready yet' [Published ProKerala.com - May 12 2013]

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Hostage to gloom: Empty malls reflect hollownes... [Published Economic Times - May 16 2013]
'Indian comprehensive healthcare not ready yet' [Published ProKerala.com - May 12 2013]
Role of State Machinery [Published Jagran Post - May 06 2013]
FY14 GDP forecast by PMEAC is slightly on the h... [Published Economic Times - Apr 23 2013]
Cash-Registers for hearts? [Published Smart Investor - Apr 21 2013]
Do Indian businessmen have cash registers for h... [Published Smart Investor - Apr 20 2013]
Laughing up his sleeve [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Jan 19 2013]
A Map of Economic Freedom in India [Published Cato @ Liberty - Jan 08 2013]
Gujarat growth: the trickle down myth [Published Times of India Blogs - Dec 16 2012]
Government is now injected with much needed ins... [Published Silicon India - Dec 12 2012]
Coffee table Gujarat [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Nov 27 2012]
600 million people to get 16-digit identificati... [Published Topnews.in - Mar 29 2010]

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A Map of Economic Freedom in India [Published Cato @ Liberty - Jan 08 2013] Ian Vásquez Economic freedom in India has improved notably since the beginning of the country’s market reforms in the early 1990s, stimulating high growth from a very low income base. Though India’s level of economic freedom is still low—it ranked 111 ...
Gujarat growth: the trickle down myth [Published Times of India Blogs - Dec 16 2012] Over the past few weeks, whenever I visited a senior state bureaucrat’s chamber in Gandhinagar Sachivalaya, I would invariably notice a coffee table book prominently displayed – “Gujarat: Governance for Growth and Development”, authored by Prof Bibek ...