Archive for December, 2008

Gujarat’s port liberalization success

Swaminathan Aiyar has written a very interesting and well-researched paper for Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity:

In contrast to the rest of India, where it is the government that predominantly owns and manages ports, the Indian state of Gujarat has implemented various forms of port liberalization since the 1990s. This has helped it [...]

Raj Thackeray: chauvinist or socialist or both?

Now that the SMSes post-26/11 have subsided, Raj Thackeray of the MNS has found another way to expand and consolidate his political base – opposing the privatization of the Maharashtra State Transort Corporation (MSRTC)
Everyone knows what happens under privatisation. Will there be a guarantee that the jobs of MSRTC staff will be secure after privatisation…Come [...]