Putting people’s health before drug company profits
Dateline Rio: Brazil is being pilloried for joining the ‘Axis of IP Evil’ but by breaking Merck’s patent on Efavirenz, its AIDS control programme will save $30 million every year. … Continue reading
It’s time for Asia to look beyond the dollar: An interview with Joseph Stiglitz
Winner of the 2001 Nobel prize for economics,Joseph Stiglitz is a trenchant critic of the “market fundamentalism” of the International Monetary Fund. I caught up with him last week in … Continue reading
‘World big enough to accommodate India and China’
The Indian Prime Minister tells businessmen there may be some worries about China, “but they have to be taken on board in a constructive manner”.11 October 2006The Hindu World big … Continue reading
New economic policy meets old paranoia
From ports to telecoms, Chinese FDI in India is hitting “national security” barrier. 28 September 2006The Hindu Chinese FDI hitting `national security’ barrier Siddharth Varadarajan New Delhi: The numbers involved … Continue reading
The life and death of a mad Bhopali
Sunil Kumar, who was 13 at the time the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal unleashed its deadly payload of methyl isocyanate gas over the sleeping city, committed suicide recently. Indra … Continue reading
Why India’s poor need an employment guarantee…Transcript of an interview to ABC TV
ABC TV Asia-Pacific interviewed a colleague and I on India’s radical new Employment Guarantee Act for an episode of one of their regular programmes, The Editors. Siddharth Varadarajan: I think … Continue reading
Employment Guarantee: Minimum wage must be treated as sacrosanct
The guarantee of employment at a wage rate less than the statutory minimum — as the draft EGA stipulates — will undermine the broad purpose of the law and set … Continue reading
Interview with Amartya Sen: Arguments for a better world
14 August 2005The Hindu Arguments for a better world SIDDHARTH VARADARAJAN Amartya Sen’s new book, The Argumentative Indian, is an original journey into the history of ideas. He says India’s … Continue reading
I’m sorry, but the world’s still round
2 August 2005 Review of Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat – A Brief History of the Globalized World in the 21st Century (Allen Lane, 2005).(A shorter version of this … Continue reading
Economists may have some answers… but not all: Review of Global Crises, Global Solutions (ed.) Bjorn Lomborg
June 14, 2005The Hindu Book Review GLOBAL CRISES, GLOBAL SOLUTIONS: Bjorn Lomborg — Editor; Cambridge University Press, The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, U.K. Rs. 995. Economists may have some … Continue reading
Manmohan Singh and the economy
21 May 2005The Hindu Manmohan Singh and the economy The biggest job, employment generation, has been left undone.BY Siddharth Varadarajan GIVEN THE Indian economy’s deep-rooted structural problems — which relate … Continue reading
The dough is in the land, not the bread
Date:05/05/2005 http://www.thehindu.com/2005/05/05/stories/2005050507641100.htm Opinion – News Analysis The dough is in the land, not the bread Siddharth Varadarajan Five years after privatisation, Modern Food assets are being stripped. – Photo: Shanker … Continue reading
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