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The writer is a former IAS officer, and a governance and economic regulation expert

Union Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman with Ministers of State for Finance Bhagwat Kishanrao Karad and Pankaj Chaudhary on her at Parliament for the presentation of the Union Budget 2022-23, in New Delhi. (PTI/Kamal Kishore)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Budget: Good intentions, but bit short on...

The expectation is that-'growth-' will come centre-stage from the next fiscal year as the pandemic becomes a bad memory

3 Feb 2022 7:09 AM IST

Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman chairs the 6th Pre-Budget consultation with the representatives of Services Sector including stakeholders from Health, Education, Rural Development and Water & Sanitation Sectors, in connection with the forthcoming Union Budget 2022-23. (PTI)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Use Budget to offer relief, win back trust of...

Budgets in India, by and large, are mostly a grand occasion for initiating policy change

28 Jan 2022 2:46 AM IST

The Covid-19 pandemic which inspired the new normal of work from home also questions an individual-centric world. (DC file photo)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | As bells toll for 2021, an end is also a beginning

At present, for around 37 per cent of jobs in developed countries and 10 per cent in developing countries, working from...

24 Dec 2021 12:42 AM IST

The absence of a central authority to define rules for sharing a depletable, common resource is the central problem behind global warming.Representational Image. (AP)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Glasgow COP looming: Feel earth move under your...

At the current rate of around thirty-four billion tons of CO2 emissions per year, we could exhaust our carbon budget in...

25 Oct 2021 1:11 AM IST

Glasgow COP is near: Fix rewards for aggressive mitigation of goal

Glasgow COP is near: Fix rewards for aggressive mitigation of goal

The race to keep global climate stable seems irrevocably loaded against us, already

27 Aug 2021 1:27 AM IST

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Taming regulatory excess in retail markets

Sadly, legislation, in democracies, is strongly influenced by political economy which dilutes technical good sense

18 July 2021 2:18 AM IST

The stock market is not a useful proxy for economic welfare. It tracks the well-being of an elitist minority in the formal sector, albeit with trickle down benefits. (By arrangement)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | The morality of stock markets

Capital intensive competitive 'games' have a funneling effect where the biggest players benefit disproportionately

13 Jun 2021 7:14 AM IST

The billions of tax dollars avoided by multinational e-commerce, whilst feeding off the commercial data generated by their customers, often without explicit permission and without compensation and we have a fishbowl of growing global inequity. (Photo: AFP)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | The social media djinn: Excluding and unsocial

India women are 26 per cent less likely to access mobile Internet due to misogyny, harassment and revenge porn

9 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

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Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Indian subnationalism past its expiry date?

Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, represent exemplar benchmarks for regionalism with deep political, social,...

11 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

For citizens, at the receiving end of the pipe, what matters most is the efficiency and effectiveness of the last-mile expenditure management by the state governments. (Photo: PTI)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | A bottom-up view of the annual Budget

Despite the hoopla around the Union government's Budget, for citizens, allocations in their state budgets matter more

14 Feb 2021 4:35 AM IST

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel clear debris after a portion of the Nanda Devi glacier snapped off, releasing water trapped behind it in Tapovan, Uttarakhand on Tuesday, February 9, 2021. (AP Photo)

Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Playing with God's world: Growth' has a high price

It is also unclear to what extent the disaster is the outcome of over-exploitation of resources in the back-to-back...

10 Feb 2021 7:11 AM IST

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Sanjeev Ahluwalia | C-virus funk? Relax, and respect the kids

There are so many moving parts, any of which could pitch the game against the parent or the child

10 Jan 2021 7:27 AM IST