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  • OPINION

    India's banks need more than a bailout

    News, Mihir Sharma, Published on 27/10/2017

    » India has long been faced with a slow-motion bank crisis.

  • OPINION

    India central bank passes buck back to government

    News, Mihir Sharma, Published on 04/08/2017

    » At their Wednesday meeting, the makers of India's monetary policy cut interest rates only slightly. They would seem to have had little choice -- but also little confidence that a deeper cut would jumpstart the Indian economy.

  • OPINION

    India's states will pay for populism

    News, Mihir Sharma, Published on 14/07/2017

    » Things only seem to get worse for India's farmers. They'd barely recovered from two years of drought when they were hit by the government's decision last autumn to declare 86% of India's currency illegal. They struggled through that, and the consequent crash in prices, in hopes that this year's monsoon would be healthy. And, although forecasters insisted enough rain would fall, an "unexpected dry spell" is now threatening to ruin their summer crop.

  • OPINION

    No end in sight to India's slow-motion bank crisis

    News, Mihir Sharma, Published on 01/03/2017

    » India's slow-moving banking crisis continues to drag on, as ponderous and unstoppable as the state-controlled banking sector itself. A recent study found that the gross "non-performing assets" of state banks rose by 55% in 2016, and 135% in the last two years. They now account for 11% of all state bank loans.

  • OPINION

    Cash crunch woes only beginning

    News, Mihir Sharma, Published on 06/01/2017

    » 'Give me 50 days, friends," Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked citizens after he cancelled 86% of the country's currency notes. After Dec 30, if Indians saw his decision as flawed, he promised to "suffer any punishment". But, he said confidently, if they could bear 50 days of disruption, they would have the "India of their dreams".

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