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Ajay Shah

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High Time India Resists Real Estate Mania
Rediff.com14 Oct 2024

Once we break free of the idea that land is scarce, real estate is just a pile of...

Can Terrorists Make Money From Markets After Attacks?
Rediff.com26 Dec 2023

The men with guns tend to know little finance, and establishing such a conspiracy then...

Who Can Dethrone The US Dollar?
Rediff.com24 Jul 2023

Policymakers should aspire to restore the pre-Independence environment where the rupee...

The Pension Challenge Confronting India
Rediff.com18 Apr 2022

When we look at the pension expenditure of the states, so far, there has been no gain...

When the State controls vaccination...
Rediff.com7 Jan 2022

More vaccination would have been done in India if the State had not had complete...

4 Questions On Crypto Regulation
Rediff.com8 Dec 2021

It is not the job of regulators to ensure that users make profits. It is not the job of...

Why IPO Market Makes Little Sense
Rediff.com6 Sep 2021

The political economy of the IPO market involves regulators empathising with...

Don't be AFRAID of Bank NPAs!
Rediff.com8 Jul 2021

Business failures rise when growth declines. When Indian growth slowed in the last...

It will take India 600 days to vaccinate 1 billion people
Rediff.com15 Apr 2021

The data gaps are inhibiting sound decisions. We need to know seroprevalence,...

Keeping Govt away from the Covid vaccine
Rediff.com14 Dec 2020

The Indian State has low operational capabilities. Individuals will have concerns about...

What kind of economic recovery will we have?
Rediff.com24 Nov 2020

The only path to recovery of the economy lies in profit growth that triggers off...

Why govt MUST use private healthcare to fight COVID-19
Rediff.com31 Mar 2020

'Most of the testing capacity in India is in the private sector.' 'Whether it is the...

Magic pill to revive growth
Rediff.com4 Mar 2020

How do we get back to higher trend growth? The heart of the problem lies in private...

What Nirmalaji said and meant
Rediff.com23 Jul 2019

'A buoyant market economy is one which is led by the innovation and imagination of...

If GDP is over-estimated, the tax targets are too high
Rediff.com13 Feb 2019

'We get an overzealous army of tax inspectors pushing the economy too hard,' says Ajay...

NBFCs are not banks!
Rediff.com9 Jan 2019

'We are all in a tizzy about NBFCs in the aftermath of the IL&FS default.' 'We tend...

How RBI can prevent PNB-like frauds
Rediff.com15 Mar 2018

'If the RBI had done the right things, these mistakes would not have happened in banks,...

Are our hard earned money safe under the new banking bill?
Rediff.com18 Dec 2017

The system envisaged under the FRDI Bill, if implemented properly, would help improve...

Rs 1.35 trillion bank bailout: 6 Qs for Jaitley
Rediff.com6 Nov 2017

Without bringing sound governance and technical capabilities into the RBI's work,...

Modi, Jaitley must fix the economy jat pat!
Rediff.com25 Sep 2017

'The hour is very late, and the choice between triumph and tragedy knocks at our door,'...