Sanjaya Baru

Africa is experiencing rising rates of growth, but will growth get translated into development?

The UPA's strategy of 'inclusive growth' remains the foundational pillar of economically, politically, and socially sustainable development.

Battles, on the military and the economic front, are first lost in the minds of the strategists for want of ideas before they are lost on the battleground for want of armoury.

As fiscal constraints impinge on defence and diplomacy, governments find themselves increasingly homebound, even if diplomats happily travel to summits.

Policies aimed at attracting more foreign investment into India would naturally be a part of an external stabilisation strategy.

On the upswing of an economic cycle, workers, consumers, savers, investors, and entrepreneurs imagine a future that is brighter than the past. On the downswing, they imagine a future dimmer than the past.

While free trade purists have always rejected regional and plurilateral trading arrangements, the WTO's charter chose to be pragmatic and regarded RTAs and FTAs as building blocks of, rather than barriers to, the multilateral trading system.

The ministries of finance and industries and commerce require modern-minded, transparent, and efficient leadership.

I think many people grow on the job.

Policies that aim to promote the livelihood security of the people - promoting employment, improving the nutritional status of children and women, expanding educational opportunities, and providing affordable healthcare - would be the first charge on the budget of a developmental state.

In the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century, regionalism was seen as a building block of globalisation.

During the 1990s, when India opened up to foreign investment, Japan was so mesmerised by the China opportunity that it chose to yield market space across a wide swathe of industries to South Korean competitors.