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Public Procurement Woe
Economic
Times, September 26, 2011
By Pradeep S Mehta
The railways
minister, Dinesh Trivedi, has recently announced two
high-level committees to look at safety and modernisation.
Both of them are closely linked to each other. But what is
perhaps missing is the fact that procurement distortions may
just end up thwarting any progress or quality in either the
safety systems or even the modernisation of railways. Why
are so many accidents taking place in the railways? Because
of poor quality of equipment coupled with negligence. Why
are so many tracks poorly built? Because of poor quality
coupled with carelessness. Corruption is a common
denominator.
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How competition reform can check inflation
Business Standard,
September 22, 2011
By Pradeep S Mehta
Once again
the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has raised the interest
rates, with several questioning the wisdom of the decision.
Inflation has become the bugbear of our growth story, and in
the recent past some of our econocrats have also suggested
for lowering the growth rate to curb it. Competition reforms
and the existence of an effective competition regime can
help growth and curb inflation. More and effective
competition can generate new innovations, which is a major
driver of economic growth.
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Highway robbery by state transport companies
Financial Express,
September 12, 2011
By Pradeep S Mehta
While there
is a general acceptance that anticompetitive practices
should not be tolerated, a look at the situation across many
countries would reveal that there is a general tolerance of
anticompetitive practices in the bus transport sector,
particularly the long-distance market. These anticompetitive
practices exist mostly in the form of cartelisation and
abuse of dominance. This is also worsened by the fact that
some of these anticompetitive practices flourish due to
legal protection offered by regulations governing the road
transport sector, which thwarts the process of competition.More...
Market dynamism & productivity growth
Financial Express, September 03, 2011
By Aradhna
Aggarwal
It is widely
acknowledged that economic liberalisation has changed the
incentives of the corporate sector and unleashed new
investment and growth forces. But the behaviour and
achievements of Indian companies remain controversial. There
are two competing views: pro-market and pro-business. The
former view holds that liberalisation fostered business
dynamism through removal of entry barriers and heightened
competitive pressures. In contrast, the pro-business view,
while recognising the gains, attributes them to excessive
market power accompanied by economic entrenchment of large
dominating incumbent firms.
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