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Business as usual, in India, is taking us to a destination where RBI & SEBI & company will preside over a minor and inconsequential...

A key intuition of modern thinking in international trade and international finance is that distance matters much more than we think. We ...

by Ajay Shah. P. Vaidyanathan Iyer has a great first draft of history , in the new Sunday magazine that goes with the Indian Expres...

See this paper by Jahangir Aziz, Ila Patnaik and myself.

For the people manning the existing monetary policy regime, a Sovereign Wealth Fund is attractive because it alleviates one criticism: the ...

Bharti Airtel Ltd. is trying to buy MTN , the biggest mobile phone company in Africa. If the transaction works, at $19 billion, it would be...

Shivnath Thukral hosted a debate on NDTV profit on Sovereign Wealth Funds, which dealt with two points of view. Should India worry about dom...

I wrote an article Concerns about sovereign funds in Business Standard today where I worry about placing shares - and thus a say in corpor...

In recent months, there has been a considerable focus on outbound FDI by Indian firms. Shyamala Gopinath, deputy governor of the RBI, has a ...