Times of India

Complete archive of times of india by and with Arvind Panagariya.

  • “Witty, Polymath and Institution Builder,” Times of India, April 29, 2024.
  • “Don't Lose Sleep Over Inequality,” Times of India, April 2, 2024. Publication page
  • “Stand On Your Own Four Wheels,” Times of India, January 29, 2024. Publication page
  • “Econ 101 From Rajasthan,” Times of India, December 8, 2023. Publication page
  • “Tell Bosses, Not Workers,” Times of India, November 10, 2023. Publication page
  • “Tell Bosses, Not Workers,” Times of India, November 10, 2023. Publication page
  • “Caste Census is a Wrong Number,” Times of India, October 20, 2023. Publication page
  • “Laptop Decision Doesn't Compute,” Times of India, September 12, 2023. Publication page
  • “Dollar Today, Rupee Tomorrow,” Times of India, August 21, 2023. Publication page
  • “Who Will Be The +1 In China+1?” Times of India July 6, 2023. Publication page
  • The Great India Stack Story,” Times of India, June 7, 2024.
  • “Lots of People? Good. Tiny Plots? Bad,” Times of India, May 11, 2023.
  • “The Populist Raj,” Times of India, April 10, 2023.
  • “Trade Policy Has No Clothes,” March 10, 2023.
  • “Short Sellers: A Short Murky History,” February 6, 2023.
  • “Same Income, Same Tax,” January 23, 2023
  • “As China, factory of the world, loses dominance, can India benefit?” December 25, 2022. Publication page
  • “What Does Inclusion Being Key to Growth Mean,” November 28, 2022.
  • “On the Way to World No. 3,” October 4, 2022.
  • “Battling Global Crises Locally,” September 13, 2022.
  • “Custom that Costs Us Dear,” August 11, 2022.
  • “Lessons from Naveen Babu,” July 6, 2022.
  • “US Can’t Do a Russia to China,” June 2, 2022.
  • Yogi’s big challenge: India can’t succeed unless UP does. Re-elected CM’s key job is to get industrial investment, May 2, 2022
  • Oz is just the start: Australia FTA shows India is now confident on trade. Aim bigger, including the ambitious deal with US, April 6, 2022
  • Time for good economics: Modi, now a 2024 poll favorite, can use his standing to make India world’s 3rd largest economy by 2029, March 12, 2022
  • Here’s why it’s V not K: The myth of pandemic-induced massive unemployment, poverty and MSME distress, March 4, 2022
  • Much good, some bad: Budget’s right on capex, direct taxes, reworking the SEZ law, but high on protectionism, February 3, 2022
  • Some ideas for the budget: FM should look at FTAs, a new SEZ law. Also, free good universities from UGC, January 5, 2022
  • Real cost of MSP for all crops: Money for the scheme can instead provide Rs 21k annually to every poor rural family, December 9, 2021
  • How to increase farm incomes & growth post-repeal: Four key reforms already executed by GoI plus freer trade are the key, November 30, 2021
  • Why we must trade freely: Five reasons India should review its current protectionist policy, November 18, 2021
  • What comes after Air India? Government has opened its privatization account, more sales such as that of BPCL must follow, October 14, 2021
  • What does India want: rent-seekers or risk-takers? (with Deepak Mishra), September 14, 2021
  • Nehru’s real big mistake: Heavy industry wrongly got priority in 1950s. So even at 75, India isn’t rich, August 19, 2021
  • New cabinet’s new job: Speedy delivery in three key areas. Liberate education. Hurry privatization. End exemption raj, July 26, 2021
  • What Mumbai can learn from New York: India should lower entry barriers for companies wishing to float IPOs. SEBI should be more like SEC, June 24, 2021
  • A vista for the future: Central Vista spending isn’t hurting other priorities. And iconic buildings won’t be demolished, June 10, 2021
  • How US has weakened WTO: The multilateral trading system is under stress, member countries must repair it, May 27, 2021
  • Averting the next massive wave: India needs to commit a much larger and faster investment to vaccine manufacturing, April 28, 2021
  • Covid year in review: Four areas where India acquitted itself well during the worldwide pandemic crisis, April 1, 2021
  • Self-sufficiency held India back: Some useful economic history lessons on how we manage to handicap ourselves, March 3, 2021
  • Corporates for banking: To address India’s credit scarcity problem, allow corporate houses to set up banks, February 5, 2021 (with Rajeev Mantri)
  • Four recommendations for FM: Stimulus, recapitalization, privatization, tariff reduction will make Budget a dream one, January 5, 2021
  • Farm Laws Debate (for the motion): Corporates can help expand market rather than driving out mandis, December 18, 2020
  • The APMC conundrum: Rolling back this reform will encourage vested interests to strike down all reform, December 9, 2020
  • Defending Modi’s reforms record: Chidambaram shifted goalpost from growth delivered by a PM to growth in his tenure, November 12, 2020
  • Six years of reforms: Modi has established his reformist credentials alongside PMs like Rao and Vajpayee, October 14, 2020
  • To return to steady growth: India’s monetary and fiscal authorities both need to lend stronger shoulders to the economy, September 22, 2020
  • Heart of the problem: NEP 2020 charts new road map, but fails to make public schoolteachers accountable (with Geeta Gandhi Kingdon), September 2, 2020
  • Higher education: A new dawn – National Education Policy 2020 offers transformative road map for colleges and universities, August 19, 2020
  • Don’t resurrect failed policy: Why import substitution industrialization is doomed to flounder, again, July 22, 2020.
  • On China trade sanctions: India can serve its national security much better by rapidly expanding its economy, June 25, 2020
  • Reforms in a Covid era: World trade will rise again. Here’s how India can ready itself to take advantage, May 27, 2020 Publication page
  • Covid crisis also an opportunity: Small isn’t beautiful for Indian workers. Grow the ‘Medium’ sector of MSMEs, April 29, 2020
  • The War Against Corona Virus, April 1, 2020
  • Higher Education Revolution, March 6, 2020
  • Urbanize Fast for High Growth, February 5, 2020
  • The Reforms We Need, January 9, 2020
  • Is India Growth Story Over? December 16, 2019
  • Drop the Trade Diffidence, November 15, 2019
  • How to Do $5 Trillion by 2024, October 15, 2019
  • Recipe for Recovery, September 17, 2019
  • Reforms, Please, Not Stimulus, August 21, 2019
  • Time to Re-form to Reform, August 6, 2019
  • How to be a Tiger, July 24, 2019
  • How to Make Exports Boom, June 26, 2019
  • India’s Low Productivity Trap, June 11, 2019
  • Reforms for a New India (with B. Venkatesh Kumar), May 29, 2019
  • Celebrating Swachh Bharat Mission, May 1, 2019
  • “Expect Modi to repeat 2014 Victory,” April 4, 2019 Publication page
  • “India’s Digital Revolution,” March 6, 2019
  • “India’s Choices in 2019,” February 16, 2019 Publication page
  • “Confront the Harsh Reality,” January 10, 2019
  • “Urjit Patel’s Unfinished Job,” December 13, 2018
  • “Manufacturing India’s Future,” November 14, 2018
  • “Let the Rupee Depreciate,” October 17, 2018. Publication page
  • “RCEP as Winning Strategy,” September 19, 2018
  • WTO on the Brink,” August 22, 2018
  • “India’s Trade Policy Folly,” July 25, 2018.
  • “A Path-breaking Legislation,” July 5, 2018 (with B. Venkatesh Kumar)
  • “A Tough Balancing Act,” June 26, 2018
  • “Modi Government at Four Years,” May 30, 2018.
  • “The Twelve Million Worker Question,” May 2, 2018
  • “Why we don’t need PSBs: Bank privatization must be on the reform agenda of the next government,” 4 April 2018.
  • “It is all in the design: Ayushman Bharat can be transformational if governance of public healthcare is altered,” 7 March 2018.
  • “Liberating India’s best colleges: HRD minister Javadekar has just announced the most far reaching reforms in higher education,” 15 February 2018 (with B. Venkatesh Kumar)
  • “Threshold of Renaissance: Medical education is in desperate need of transformation, NMC Bill can bring it about,” 10 January 2018
  • “Wrong way to Make in India: Why we must resist the temptation to return to import substitution mirage,” 13 December 2017.
  • “How to revive bank credit: Government should, to begin with, offer PSB bonds in return for equivalent equity,” 23 October 2017
  • “GDP Slowdown: Despite all the gloom, in macroeconomic terms, the economy is remarkably stable,” 8 October 2017.
  • “Floor hasn’t fallen through: Don’t go by feel, economic data call for measured rather than precipitate action,” 25 September 2017.
  • “Takeoff from the coast,” 19 February 2016.
  • The revolution begins,” 25 February 2015.
  • “The best of goods and services,” 13 December 2014.
  • “How Swachh Bharat can succeed,” 15 November 2014.
  • “Modi era takes shape,” 18 October 2014.
  • “How to be an Asian tiger,” 25 September 2014
  • “Unfairly vilified at WTO,” 23 August 2014.
  • “India’s best hope is that the Budget due February 2015 chooses growth and jobs,” 26 July 2014. Publication page
  • “PM Modi: Time for bold reforms,” 13 June 2014. Publication page
  • “Masters of their destiny: How states can engineer far-reaching reforms without central legislative action,” 31 May 2014. Publication page
  • “Towards economic freedom,” 17 May 2014, Publication page
  • “How to fiscally empower states,” 3 May 2014. Publication page
  • “A game-changing reform strategy,” 5 April 2014. Publication page
  • “UPA hurts India as it exits,” 11 March 2014. Publication page
  • “Why the 2014 voter is different,” 8 February 2014 Publication page
  • “A tale of two prime ministers,” 11 January 2014. Publication page
  • “New government could make quick gains in growth by fixing paralysis in decision-making,” 14 December 2013. Publication page
  • “An open letter to Rahul Gandhi,” 18 November 2013. Publication page
  • “Rajan panel report: A quickie and it shows,” 19 October 2013. Publication page
  • “Noble intentions ignoble outcomes,” 21 September 2013. Publication page
  • “India’s political class must celebrate, not bicker over, the unprecedented decline in poverty,” 24 August 2013. Publication page
  • “What Amartya Sen doesn’t see,” 27 July 2013. Publication page
  • “Why Gujarat miracle matters,” 29 June 2013. Publication page
  • “Why the food security Bill will not boost food grain consumption for the poor,” 1 June 2013. Publication page
  • “Child malnutrition in India,” 2 May 2013. Publication page
  • “What Right to Education?” April 6, 2013. Publication page
  • “The Tyranny of Balance of payments,” March 9, 2013 Publication page
  • “Leave Tendulkar Poverty Line Alone,” February 9, 2013. Publication page
  • “A Tale of Two Tragedies,” January 12, 2013. Publication page
  • “A Leader of Substance,” December 25, 2012. Publication page
  • “Time for BJP to Rethink,” November 17, 2012. Publication page
  • “Starved of ideas: Expanding the leaky public distribution system won't deliver food security,” October 19, 2012. Publication page
  • “The Gujarat Miracle,” September 22, 2012. Publication page
  • “Empowering the Poor: Abandon the broken Model,” August 25, 2012. Publication page
  • “Understanding the Bihar Miracle,” July 28, 2012. Publication page
  • “End of an Era: The Bell Tolls for India’s Congress Party” (with J. Bhagwati), July 13, 2012 Publication page
  • “A Forgotten Revolutionary,” June 28, 2012. Publication page
  • “Myths about poverty lines,” Times of India, March 30, 2012. Publication page
  • “Cracking the Kerala myth,” Times of India, January 2, 2012.
  • “The child malnutrition myth,” Times of India, October 1, 2011. Publication page
  • “Reforms to the rescue,” Times of India, September 8, 2011. Publication page
  • “Unsteady at the top,” Times of India, August 24, 2011. Publication page
  • “Lok Sabha: rich, educated and criminal?” Times of India, April 5, 2011 (with Poonam Gupta).
  • “Private enterprise can save the public sector,” Times of India, January 30, 2011 (with Nandini Gupta).
  • “Development is a Tiger,” Times of India, December 11, 2010. Publication page
  • “Don’t give it currency,” Times of India, May 3, 2010 (with Jagdish Bhagwati).
  • “Pursuing excellence and equity,” Times of India, April 10, 2010. Publication page
  • Protectionism’s Other Names” (with Jagdish Bhagwati), Times of India, February 23, 2010.
  • “A tale of Two Trajectories,” Times of India, February 6, 2010. Publication page
  • “Another Tryst with Destiny,” Times of India, December 26, 2009. Publication page
  • “A Thoughtless Tax: Carbon-tax-equalizing tariffs are a bad idea” (with Jagdish Bhagwati), Times of India, December 8, 2009.
  • “Some Questions are Best Buried,” Times of India, October 31, 2009. Publication page
  • “More bang for the Buck,” Times of India, September 19, 2009. Publication page
  • “Curbing Child Labor. Rugmark Label on the Mat,” Times of India, November 14, 1996.
  • “Patent Rights. Tripping on Facts and Falsehoods,” Times of India, January 16, 1996.
  • “The Enron Deal: Cost of Mixing Business with Politics,” Times of India, July 21, 1995.
  • “Liberalize Consumer Goods Imports,” Times of India, July 23, 1994.
  • “India as a Scapegoat: U.S. Action under Super 301,” Times of India, June 23, 1989.