The fall guys on the block

If companies are commissioning research to just “cover their backs” then why should firms (like us?) bother with methodology, sample sizes, segmentation, Porter’s five forces, SWOTs and what not?

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The cost of (not having) a price index

Inflation is a key parameter all central banks are required to manage. The price index enables them to measure inflation. For years, the RBI has been operating without a robust measure of inflation – shooting in the dark.

The irrelevance of the current price indices in India was starkly highlighted in recent

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Under-development: Advantage India

The World Economic Forum’s India Economic Summit 2009 is underway in New Delhi. A host of ideas – economic and social including growth dynamics, sustainable development, education, climate change, governance issues and investments, will be on the discussion agenda to answer if, how and when India can become an economic super power and to map

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Selling the family silver

That the Government is making it mandatory for all profitable Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) to disinvest 10% equity to the public is welcome. The Government is running too many businesses that are really not its business to run. And any downsizing of this activity is good.

That the proceeds of the

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