Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Five alternative frameworks in education policy

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There has been much interest in scaling up programs like Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and the midday-meal program. At the same time, the recent mea...
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Monday, February 27, 2006

The Indian securities markets in 2005

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As usual, Chapter 4 of the Economic Survey is on the securities markets. This was released today . It is a must-read for those interested i...
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Stock markets and the budget

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Everyone is now curious about the budget. It is natural to think of an event study of index fluctuations surrounding budget day. Susan Thom...

Frontiers in systemic risk - computer security

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Over the years, the materiality of computer security problems appears to have escalated. The game now seems to be of a person X writing a vi...
Saturday, February 25, 2006

Rethinking the IMF (Mervyn King's lecture)

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I attended a talk by Mervyn King, who is Governer of Bank of England, in Delhi. The talk, which was organised by ICRIER, was titled Reform o...
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Monday, February 20, 2006

Resilient: Able to cope with big bankruptcies

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For an economist, the goal of financial sector policy and regulation is: market efficiency. The normative benchmark is a market which is an ...
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Sunday, February 19, 2006

Imagine there's no `FII'

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In India, all of us are used to the notion of `FII' as being the channel through which foreign investors access the Indian market. But l...
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