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euro-Europe -MarketExpress

Europe moves toward compromise

The European Union is gradually moving to a compromise on the Single Resolution Mechanism. It is intended to be agreed up before the end of the year to give the European Parliament time to debate...

Work Life Balance – A Myth or a Reality?

Prior to joining one of the big 4, I was always of the opinion that “work life balance” was nothing more than a myth. A fancy term made up by people working in the corporate...

Leading the way -MarketExpress

Useful lessons from Ants: Leading the way

An organizational leader is given the task to set up and start a new business. Let’s assume he has got a group of people to work with. There are some elementary tasks that are carried...

Inflation Decoded- Marketexpress

India: Inflation Decoded

Inflation is one criterion which is closely monitored by Central Bank for its Monetary Policy and also by individuals to match their returns to be above the Inflation rate.  In this Decoding Series, we decode the...

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The target behind Macro Economic targets!

What does a target of an 8 percent growth of GDP mean for a layman? Why does Sensex crossing the 20000 mark create an uproar? Why an inflation target near 5 percent for Wpi for...

National Sovereignty Marketexpress

Coming Soon: Corporate Tools To Hollow Out National Sovereignty

Most corporations don’t care about things like changing the name of a high school that honored a Confederate General. On topics like these, they allow democracy to do its job in its messy manner that...

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India: Coal into Diamonds

Any geography lesson will tell you that coal under much higher pressure, becomes diamonds. An upright civil servant under huge suppression was involved in a similar conversion years ago and now in the headlines. What...

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Raghuram rajan committee on backwardness of states

PV Rajeev’s observations and views on Raghuram Rajan committee report on backwardness of states According to the current practice special category states are identified based on features such as hilly and difficult terrain, low population...

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Ronald Coase:Uncommon common sense & a towering contrarian!

Tribute to one of the intellectual giants of contemporary economics – Ronald Coase (aged 103), who passed away last month. Coase himself acknowledged in a speech a few years after winning the 1991 Sveriges Riksbank...

Syria to the brink and beyond

Majid Rafizadeh Opinion & Views on Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad journey from being doctor to be the President of Syria and his policies & governance. Growing up as a child in Damascus, it was evident that...

Indian Infra, Realty groups selling assets cheaply to survive

As Indian economy slowdown worsens & turn around not visible, Indian Infrastructure & Realty firms tries to survive by selling of its assets & tighten up Indian Infrastructure and Real Estate Groups have seen their stock prices...

Modi and Gujarat

Gujarat can be considered to have performed well in the matter of Industrial Development. But it continues to be backward in the matter of social sector development. As the latest Economic Survey shows, Infant mortality...