Guest Columns

Complete archive of guest columns by and with Arvind Panagariya.

  • “The false promise of import substitution industrialisation in India,” East Asia Forum Quarterly, December 6, 2023. Publication page
  • “Padma Desai: A pioneer in more ways than one, Vox-EU, CEPR. Publication page
  • “The Extraordinary Life of Padma Desai,” Hindustan Times, May 8, 2023. Publication page
  • “Its time to replace the UGC Act,” The Hindu, 17 April 2018 (with B. Venkatesh Kumar) Publication page
  • “A Much Needed Turnaround,” India Today, September 22, 2015. Publication page
  • “Win-win on land,” Business Standard, 9 March 2015. Publication page
  • “The revival of optimism,” Business Standard, 30 December 2014 Publication page
  • “MSMEs: separating wheat from chaff,” Business Standard, 23 October 2014. Publication page
  • “A different kind of CM,” Business Standard, 5 August 2014. Publication page
  • “A flexible deficit target,” Business Standard, 24 June 2014. Publication page
  • “Don’t just make for India: Why Raghuram Rajan’s pessimism about Make in India’s focus on exports is misplaces,” India Today, 29 December 2014. Publication page
  • “How to manufacture reforms: Corporate sector should discharge the greatest social responsibility by creating jobs,” India Today, 3 July 2014.
  • “Cut subsidies for non-poor,” India Today, 17 May 2014. Publication page
  • “The choice on offer,” Business Standard, 8 April 2014. Publication page
  • “India must call the US’ bluff on patents,” Business Standard, 4 March 2014. Publication page
  • “Abenomics for the Next Indian Prime Minister,” India Today, 3 February 2014.
  • “Some myths about education,” Business Standard, 28 November 2013. Publication page
  • “Narendra Modi’s real report card,” Business Standard, 28 October 2013. Publication page
  • “Focus on Wealth Creation, Not Just Its Distribution,” Business Today, invited article in end-of-the-decade issue entitled “2000-2009: India’s Best Decade,” December 27, 2009. Publication page
  • “Telecom Transformation: The Future is Calling,” India Today, invited article in end of the decade issue entitled “2000-2009: The Decade that Changed the World,” December 3, 2009. Publication page
  • “Myths from Mumbai,” Indian Express, December 16, 2008. Publication page
  • “Song of the crossroads,” Hindustan Times, February 18, 2008. Publication page
  • “India on the World Stage: 20 Years from Now,” Mint, January 1, 2008.
  • “Making poverty history,” Indian Express, August 15, 2007. Publication page
  • “Will India Overtake the Chinese Dragon?” India Today Special 30th Anniversary Issue, December 18, 2006. Publication page
  • “India’s Unfortunate Conversion to Preferential Trade Liberalization,” (with T. N. Srinivasan), Indian. Express, July 9, 2006.
  • “Walking on Two Legs,” Hindustan Times January 29, 2006. Publication page
  • “Agreement on Agriculture and NAMA within Reach,” Financial Express, December 28, 2005.
  • “It’s a Big World Out There,” Outlook, 10th Anniversary Issue, April 4, 2005.
  • “At the Half-way Mark,” Outlook July 12, 2004 (Guest Column).
  • “It is the Reforms, Stupid,” Outlook, December 17, 2001.
  • “A Vision for 2010,” India Today, February 19, 2001, 62-63.
  • “A Misguided Idea,” Hindu, July 10, 2000.
  • “Failure in Seattle Dampens Free Trade,” Labor Watch, Washington DC: Capital Research center, January 2000.
  • “FTAA: Who Needs It?” (in Spanish and Portuguese), America Economia, 9 April 1998.