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  • "Budget 1991: Through a long tunnel, slowly", 'Times of India', Bangalore, August 4, 1991
  • "Inflation: How effective is monetary policy", 'Financial Express', Calcutta, June 17, 1992
  • "Liberalisation and Investment", 'The Hindu', November 30, 1994.
  • "Wealth and welfare in the era of liberalisation", 'The Hindu', October 27, 1994
  • "Political economy and macroeconomics", 'The Hindu', December 27, 1994.
  • "Making sense of Mexico", 'The Hindu', February 15, 1995.
  • "The Eastern experience", 'The Hindu', March 14, 1995.
  • "Budget 1995: Beating a retreat", 'The Hindu', March 28, 1995.
  • "The current inflation", 'The Hindu', April 26, 1995.
  • "Taking food seriously", 'The Hindu', June 10, 1995.
  • "Moral hazard in government", 'The Hindu', Oct 12, 1995.
  • "Will the government learn to tax?", 'The Hindu', November 18, 1995.
  • "Central banks and autonomy", 'The Hindu', December 8, 1995.
  • 'Is saving the issue?', The Hindu, March 13, 1996.
  • "Managing the inflation rate", 'The Hindu', April 30, 1996.
  • "Strengthening the public sector", 'The Hindu', June 25, 1996.
  • "Budget Imperatives: No time for short termism", 'Times of India', July 9, 1996.
  • "Budget 1996: A constrained budget", 'The Hindu', July 30, 1996.
  • "The invention of India", 'The Hindu', July 23, 1997.
  • 'A capital idea?', The Hindu, 3 January, 1998.
  • 'The road to self reliance', The Hindu, 12 February, 1998.
  • 'Competition versus competitiveness', The Hindu, 18 September, 1998.
  • 'Legacy and currency', The Hindu, 8 January, 1999.
  • 'India’s competitiveness', The Hindu, 22 May, 1999.
  • "Food security and panchayati raj", 'The Hindu', July 12, 1999
  • "Agriculture and the reforms: Growth", 'The Hindu', December 20, 1999
  • 'Paradigm regained', The Hindu, 22 August, 1999.
  • 'The cost of free disposal', The Hindu, 1 October, 1999.
  • "Agriculture and the reforms: Welfare", 'The Hindu', December 21, 1999
  • 'Mr. Sinha’s side-show', The Hindu, 2 March, 2000.
  • 'The logic of competition', The Hindu, 13 June, 2000.
  • 'Policy changes and productivity', The Hindu, 30 December, 2000.
  • 'A tale of two Asias', The Hindu, 15 February, 2001.
  • 'Labour laws and output growth', The Hindu, 5 June, 2001.
  • 'An equal governance', The Hindu, 30 June, 2001.
  • 'Globalisation true, and false', The Hindu, 20 August, 2001.
  • 'India and the global slowing', The Hindu, 4 January, 2001.
  • 'Reforms at a time of fatigue', The Hindu, 3 March, 2002.
  • 'Waiting for foreign investment', The Hindu, 5 May, 2002.
  • 'Shedding darkness', The Hindu, September 13, 2002.
  • 'Romancing the rentier', The Hindu, January 25, 2003.
  • 'In praise of small business', The Hindu, 28 February, 2003.
  • 'Some vision, but lacklustre numbers', the Financial Express, 27 February, 2004.
  • 'Is the current-account deficit growing too big?', by invitation, The Economic Times, 10 January 2006
  • The Draft Human Development Report for Kerala 2005.
  • 'The Approach to the Eleventh Plan’, presentation made to the Planning Commission at Thiruvananthapuram
  • 'Can the Budget boost growth and curb inflation?', by invitation, The Economic Times, 27 February 2007.
  • "Growth and inflation", by invitation, 'Yojana', October 2007.
  • "Nehru’s Economic Legacy”, by invitation, ‘The Hindu Business Line’, January 26, 2008
  • "Towards an Economy of Plenty in Kerala", ‘Economic and Political Weekly’, May 17-23, 2008.
  • “Beyond Monetarist Panaceas”, by invitation, ‘Mint’, 5 June 2008.
  • “Kerala: Identifying Food Security with Self-sufficiency”, ‘Business Line’, 14 May 2008.
  • "Hunger as a no-brainer", 'Mint', 21 October 2008.
  • 'Public Finances and the Plan', note prepared for the Kerala State Planning Board, August 2011.
  • "Monetary Policy is not the Cure for Inflation", 'The Hindu Business Line', 3 October, 2011.
  • "The Union Budget 2011", by invitation, 'The New Indian Express', 3 March, 2011.
  • "Looking Beyond the Global Slowdown", 'The Hindu', March 13, 2012.
  • "Public Goods as the Way to Welfare", 'The Hindu', April 21, 2012.
  • "Finding the Will to Govern the Economy", 'The Hindu', August 25, 2012.
  • "Let's Not Overrate Foreign Investment", 'The Hindu", October 2, 2012
  • "The Unempowered Asian", 'The Hindu', July 25, 2013.
  • "Temples Of A Possible India", 'The Hindu Business Line', January 5, 2014
  • "Hubris And The Falling Growth Story", 'The Hindu Business Line', February 2, 2014
  • "A Quiet Revolution In Governance", 'The Hindu Business Line', March 7, 2014
  • "The Case Against Inflation Targeting", 'The Hindu Business Line', March 30, 2014
  • "Public Investment Can Transform The Economy", 'The Hindu Business Line', May 5, 2014
  • "Can Narendra Modi do it?", 'Business Line', May 27, 2014
  • "Traders not to blame for food inflation", ‘Business Line’, July 3, 2014
  • “Good times, but not just yet”, ‘Business Line’, July 11, 2014
  • “The RBI needs a course correction”, ‘Business Line’, September 28, 2014
  • “Kerala's fiscal excesses are unforgivable”, ‘Business Line’, October 14, 2014
  • “The economic consequences of Nehru”, ‘The Hindu’, October 16, 2014
  • “Reversing the reversal”, ‘Business Line’, November 28, 2014
  • "Inflation targeting does not lift growth", 'Business Line', December 29, 2014
  • "A Budget to Transform", 'The Hindu', February 14, 2015
  • "Wrong time to be fixated about the fiscal deficit", 'Business Line', February 4, 2015
  • "Let us now make more food in India", 'Business Line', May 19, 2015
  • "It's not all hunky-dory", 'Business Line', February 28, 2015
  • "What Raghuram Rajan did not say", 'Business Line', July 17, 2015
  • "Monetary policy as if jobs don't matter", 'Business Line', July 31, 2015
  • "Going beyond inflation targeting", 'The Hindu', August 18, 2015
  • "Home Truths on Foreign Investment", 'Business Line', October 21, 2015
  • "Public spending, private gain", 'The Hindu', December 17, 2015
  • "Public investment: for a new normal", 'The Hindu', January 25, 2016
  • "Monetary and fiscal policies go together", 'The Hindu', February 4, 2016
  • "Lessons from the Mallya case", 'The Hindu', April 18, 2016
  • "Bracing for the status quo in Kerala", 'The Hindu', April 28, 2016
  • "The ease of living in India," 'The Hindu', May 25, 2016
  • "Retrofitting the Reserve Bank", 'The Hindu', August 6, 2016
  • "Looking for some change, Governor", 'The Hindu', August 23, 2016
  • "The stifling steel frame", 'The Hindu', July 6, 2016
  • "The economy on auto pilot", 'The Hindu, September 22, 2016
  • "The new colour of money", 'The Hindu', November 11, 2016
  • "White is the new black", 'The Hindu', November 17, 2016
  • "When the banks are awash with cash", 'The Hindu', January 7, 2016
  • "The poor are paying for demonetisation", www.thewire.in, December 14, 2016
  • "Demonetisation alone will do nothing to end corruption", www.thewire.in, December 16, 2016
  • "The price of fiscal folly", 'The Hindu', January 24, 2017
  • "Politics trumps ideology", 'The Hindu, February 2, 2017
  • "Food on your own terms", 'The Hindu', March 2, 2017
  • "A brief history of the past 70 years", 'The Hindu', March 22, 2017
  • "A non-state view of Kerala", 'The Hindu', May 4, 2017
  • "The economy in the time of Narendra Modi", 'The Hindu', June 5, 2017
  • "After globalisation's promise", 'The Hindu', July 18, 2017
  • "The RBI is off target", 'The Hindu', August 1, 2017
  • "Social revolution in a JAM", 'The Hindu', September 8, 2017
  • "The slowing economy", 'Malayala Manorama', September 27
  • "Modi Government Isn’t Against Economic Growth, But Its Approach Is Flawed", 'The Wire', October 2, 2017
  • "Tackling the economic slowdown", 'The Hindu', October 3, 2017
  • "Banker with a cause: review of Raghuram Rajan's 'I Do What I Do'", 'The Hindu', October 14, 2017
  • “The grounding of Air India”, ‘The Hindu’, January 25, 2018
  • “Embracing the rural: Budget 2018”, invited, ‘The Hindu’, February 1, 2018
  • “When development brings loss”, ‘The Hindu’, March 28, 2018
  • "Prosperity in the 21st century", 'The Hindu', April 21, 2018
  • "A demographic twist to democracy", by invitation, 'Deccan Herald', April 8, 2018
  • "An unexceptional economic performance", 'The Hindu', June 9, 2018
  • "Much must change in Kerala", 'The Hindu', September 11, 2018
  • "High science with low development", 'The Hindu', August 22, 2018
  • "The architecture is not the force", 'The Hindu', December 5, 2018
  • "Independence and accountability: on RBI", 'The Hindu', November 9, 2018
  • "Why Modi failed to transform the economy", 'The Deccan Herald', January 15, 2019
  • "Investment over subsidies", 'The Hindu', January 29, 2019
  • "The employment test", 'The Hindu', February 21, 2019
  • "Reviving the community: review of 'The Third Pillar' by Raghuram Rajan", 'The Hindu', March 31, 2019
  • "Necessary steps to ending poverty", 'The Hindu', April 15, 2019
  • "An employment-oriented economic policy", 'The Hindu', May 1, 2019
  • "What a $5 trillion economy would look like", 'The Hindu', June 20, 2019
  • "Even central banks need 'capital' infusion", 'The Hindu', June 29, 2019
  • "The macro does not get with the micro", 'The Hindu', July 6, 2019
  • "Governing India through fiscal math", 'The Hindu', July 29, 2019
  • "The Kerala Model is Unsustainable", 'The Hindu', August 22, 2019
  • "Banking on the Banks for Expansion", 'The Hindu', September 2, 2019
  • "The Link between Jobs, Farming and Climate", 'The Hindu', October 1, 2019
  • "Bigger is Not Necessarily Better", 'The Hindu', December 3, 2019
  • "It's Not Hard to Believe that India's Consumption Expenditure Has Fallen", 'The Wire', December 23, 2019
  • "What makes doing business easier", 'The Hindu', November 6, 2019
  • "Financial stability and the RBI", 'The Hindu', October 15, 2019
  • "Bigger is Not Necessarily Better", 'The Hindu', December 3, 2019
  • "The perils of RBI's fixation on inflation", 'The Hindu', January 17, 2020
  • "A government that is clueless on the economy", 'The Hindu', February 2, 2020
  • "Modinomics in a spot of bother as growth slows in India", invited, 'East Asia Forum', March 4, 2020
  • "Nirmala Sitharaman should remember that a stimulus delayed is a quick recovery denied", 'The Wire', April 9, 2020
  • "India needs a strong fiscal stimulus", 'Hindustan Times', April 15, 2020
  • "Amend the FRBM Act, spend more", 'Hindustan Times', April 30, 2020
  • "After COVID-19: Potential Challenges for Kerala's Economy", 'Ala', Issue 20, April 30, 2020
  • "Financing the COVID-19 economic package", 'Hindustan Times', May 14, 2020
  • "The economic package unpacked", 'Hindustan Times', May 18, 2020
  • "In the belly of the beast: Review of 'Back Stage' by Montek Singh Ahluwalia", 'The Telegraph', June 19, 2020
  • "To revive the economy Modi must turn to maximum government", 'Hindustan Times' June 21, 2020
  • "Adopting a public systems approach to COVID-19", 'The Hindu', July 29, 2020
  • "How to pay for the stimulus", 'The Hindu', August 6, 2020
  • "Reversing the economic reversal", 'Hindustan Times', September 7, 2020
  • "The RBI tunes in to the economy", 'The Hindu', October 15, 2020
  • "Some of the COVID-19 mortality was avoidable", with Sreenath K Namboodhiry, 'The Hindu', November 24, 2020
  • "True Fiscal Responsibility", 'The Hindu', December 7, 2020
  • "In the Farm Debate: Focus on access to food", 'Hindustan Times', December 25, 2020
  • "Reshape spending, at the Centre and states", 'Hindustan Times', January 26, 2021
  • "The Big Gap in the Budget - An Expenditure Thrust", 'Hindustan Times', February 2, 2021
  • "Re-evaluating Inflation Targeting", with M.Parameswaran, 'The Hindu', March 17, 2021
  • "The absent programme at the Kerala hustings", 'The Hindu', March 24, 2021
  • "The Lesson for India in Joe Biden's Economic Gambit", 'The Wire', March 26, 2021
  • "Growth in India: Narratives and evidence", with Mausumi Das and M.Parameswaran, 'Ideas for India', April 15, 2021
  • "സാമ്പത്തികാസൂത്രണവും മഹാമാരിയും", with Sreenath Namboodhiry, 'Mathrubhumi', May 8, 2021
  • "Back in the shortage economy", 'The Hindu', May 10, 2021
  • "The economic toolkit revealed", 'The Hindu', June 2, 2021
  • "Recovery takes more than reforms", 'The Hindu', June 18, 2021
  • "The heavy footprint of a light rail", 'The Hindu', July 5, 2021
  • "Time to build a valuable economy", 'The Hindu', July 19, 2021
  • "Another colonial legacy", 'The Hindu', July 26, 2021
  • "It's the ecosystem, stupid!", 'The Hindu', August 11, 2021
  • "The National Monetisation Pipeline and the infrastructure deficit", 'The Hindu', September 6, 2021
  • "Identity and public policy", 'The Hindu', September 27, 2021
  • "Development that is mindful of nature", 'The Hindu', October 23, 2021
  • "The debacle of demonetisation", 'The Hindu', November 16, 2021
  • "The price of food must figure in the policy", 'The Hindu', December 16, 2021
  • "The SilverLine project is anti-development", 'The Hindu', January 19, 2022
  • "Sri Lankan Lessons for India", 'The Hindu', April 19, 2022
  • "Inflation control needs another model", with M. Parameswaran, 'The Hindu', May 4, 2022

Book traversal links for Popular Economics

  • ❮ "The Restless Pravasi Liberal Must Gaze Inwards and Not at the Mother Country Alone", 'The Wire', April 6, 2022
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  • "Budget 1991: Through a long tunnel, slowly", 'Times of India', Bangalore, August 4, 1991 ❯