Industry

Rethinking Employment and Industrialisation in India

Corporate-driven industrialisation has failed to create the jobs that India's youth need. We need a different kind of growth, one based on reducing the productivity gap between rural and urban…
▶09-Jan-2024
Amit Bhaduri

The Political Necessity of the Licence-Permit Raj

Industrial licencing established a framework through which newly independent India could spearhead development, and was not necessarily tied to socialism. This explains why it was generally accepted…
▶09-May-2023
Rashmi Venkatesan

How (Not) to Fight Monopolies

RK Hazari's landmark work on corporates in 1960s India holds lessons for contemporary questions on promoting small and medium firms and ensuring effective corporate governance. These questions…
▶16-Feb-2021
Mircea Raianu

Make in India: Why didn't the Lion Roar?

“Make in India” has failed to meet its objective of turning industry around. The government has seemed more concerned with improving India’s rank in the spurious Ease of Doing Business Index, which…
▶08-Apr-2019
R Nagaraj