Can India grow without Bharat?: "columnspeak"/ Shankar Acharya.

Includes bibiographical references.

Other Title: Business standard.

India: then and now. India's economy: then and now -- The employment challenge. Can India grow without Bharat? -- Guaranteeing employment or fiscal crisis? -- Reviving industrial employment -- Reforms: on or off? Why did India reform? -- Reforms, may be but at what speed? -- Bad ideas versus good men -- Bad ideas are winning -- Populism rides again -- Economic policy: mid-term report -- Economic growth. What's happening in services? -- Growth prospects: a reality check -- Eight per cent growth forever? -- Infrastructure problems. Foreign exchange for infrastructure, anyone? -- A tale of three cities -- India's water troubles -- Budget and tax policies. The good, the bad and the ugly -- Tax policies for 2005 -- India's tax reformers -- The year of bad taxes -- A curate's egg -- Foreign trade and payments. Wanted: a trade policy -- The ABC of PTAs and FTAs -- A common currency for SAARC? -- A new BoP paradigm? -- Global imbalances -- Monetary and fiscal policies. Inflation and monetary policy -- Farewell fiscal responsibility? -- Fiscal deficit, what's that? -- Foreign affairs. Not in China's league -- China's India strategy -- Talking Turkey -- Foreign policy: mid-term report.