- An interview with Amartya Sen.
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.. - Amazon is planning on entering the food delivery business in India. This ought to be fun.
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““We have disrupted every business we have entered, be it ecommerce, payments or entertainment,” a senior Amazon executive told Moneycontrol on condition of anonymity.The launch is slated to happen around Diwali at the end of this month.”
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.. - Let’s drop the pretense that India’s fiscal deficit is 3.5% of GDP. Let’s drop the target itself. And the article doesn’t say it, but I have always wondered, why divide by GDP in the first place?
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“Even if these changes don’t deliver credible budgeting, there is no great virtue in stipulating that 3 per cent is the desired level of fiscal deficit at the Centre. As T.C.A. Srinivasa-Raghavan has argued more than once in these pages, that number was simply copied from the European figure, although the economic context for India is radically different from that in Europe.”
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.. - An analysis of Yes Bank.
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“Yes Bank – The “Kohinoor” of Rana Kapoor has seen him exit in an unglamorous way. He had pledged the stock in favour of his daughters’ borrowings, and the lenders decided to selll. The stock fell 25% in a day, and hit a 10 year low at Rs 30.”
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.. - A short, and entirely positive review of Devendra Fadnavis’ tenure.
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