First Principles
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'India's Services Sector-Based Economic Model is its Problem'
Gary Dugan of RBS says when a currency falls, it also offers a solution to the underlying issue of lack of competitiveness. But India has to get its manufacturing act together
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Hybrid Maize Helps Uplift Gujarat's Tribal Farmers
Shifting tribal farmers from low-yield, low-income maize to more productive agriculture has been at the heart of Gujarat’s plan for tribal uplift
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IRDA Could Stifle Online Insurance Aggregators
Latest guidelines from IRDA threaten to further tighten the screws on web aggregators but they aren’t rattled yet—after all, internet-savvy consumers are their insurance
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Ruchir Sharma Analyses India's Centre-States Equation
India’s recent economic failures are the result of the breakdown in accountability at the Centre, says Ruchir Sharma. But mass-based leaders in states are faring much better
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Building Global Brands from Emerging Economies
Companies in emerging markets may not need to build brands. But, if they do, China can show how. It is far ahead of the game than India
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The Potato Farming Success of Gujarat's Banaskantha District
Contrary to NGO stories of exploited farmers and middlemen running riot, Gujarat’s potato farmers have scripted an entrepreneurial success story by teaming up with multinationals and other buyers of their produce
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Eureka Forbes Purifies Water for Rural India
Inconsistencies in impurities pose a challenge but Eureka Forbes is using data and local communities to get a foothold in the rural water market
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How India has Punctured its Gas Balloon
Even as gas takes off in the US as a cleaner and cheaper fuel, India is heading in the opposite direction with policy flip-flops and failed promises strewn along the way
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India Has More Jobs, But Poorer Jobs
Jobs are growing, suggests the government’s latest employment survey. But these may largely be poor quality jobs. Not something for the UPA to tom-tom after nine years
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Is Google Gobbling Up the Indian Internet Space?
Google has a staggering amount of control over the Indian internet space. That can’t always be good
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The Almighty Dollar and the Fallen Rupee
RBS’s Drew Brick explains why the dollar is holding up even though US growth isn’t something to write home about—and the impact on India if the Fed goes slow on its money printing operations