The Regulatory Chakravyuh
Economic
Times, April 30, 2012
By Pradeep S Mehta
The Planning
Commission is seriously addressing problems. In order to
weed out or rationalise useless regulations, the plan
body's strategy also speaks about undertaking scientific
regulatory impact assessments. The catch is that states
will need to be involved in this exercise closely, as much
of the regulatory chakravyuh exists locally. A consensus
can evolve through a dialogue and the plan body will have
to market it to states, like a skin fairness cream, to
demonstrate to them that revenues will rise and new jobs
created.
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Looking to Central Asia
The Financial
Express, April 27, 2012
By Faisal Ahmed, M
Absar Alam
India’s foreign
trade policy puts utmost attention to exploring new
markets for exportable products and offshore investments.
At a time when India’s look-East policy is exploring new
modules of engagement in East and Southeast Asia, and its
look-West policy has already been emphasising on
broad-based engagements with the Persian Gulf region, it
is high time to look at the geography in the Northwest as
well. Amidst such efforts of engagements, the missing link
is the Central Asian region, which has immense strategic
importance.
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The WTO needed now more than ever
Global
Briefing Magazine, April 2012
By Pradeep S Mehta
WTO approval of
new measures in favour of the least developed countries
has shown a way forward, both through the haze of global
economic uncertainty and against the risks of increasing
protectionism.
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Wanted: A National Sarpanch
Economic
Times, April 19, 2012
By Pradeep S Mehta
India has accepted
the Westminster model of parliamentary democracy, which is
now proving to be an unworkable method of running a
government smoothly.
Now is the
opportune time to kick off a debate for changing over from a
Westminster model to a presidential system. Electing a
national sarpanch to get rid of the cantankerous and
retrogressive coalition political system. Our children will
never forgive us if we do not start the process now, knowing
that it will still take a few years to bring about the
change.
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Indo-Pak engagement needs strategic depth
The Financial Express, April 10, 2012
By Pradeep S Mehta
and Abid Suleri
With Pakistan’s
cabinet approving the negative list approach with a
commitment to grant the much-hyped most-favoured-nation (MFN)
status to India by late 2012, bilateral trade and economic
relations are all set to get a boost. With expanding
bonhomie, is it not time for both to join up to look at
international trade issues with third countries that affect
them both, even if at varying intensities? This is important
because, after a long era defined by conflicting
cohesiveness and cohesive conflicts, both countries are now
willing to identify and remove the deterrents to their
bilateral relations.
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