Feb 13, 2026 The Indian Exp.
As world adjusts to US power politics, India’s task is to secure market access, investment
Global economic engagement is and was riddled with contradictions. We aspired for growth yet feared ...
Feb 02, 2026 The Indian Exp.
Budget positions India to govern growth with judgement and resilience
In an earlier article (‘History doesn’t end today, our old compass has run its course&rs...
Dec 31, 2025 The Indian Exp.
History doesn’t end today, our old compass has run its course. Here’s a new one for India
Tomorrow, as we begin the new year, we seek a new elusive compass. We have relied on a compass that ...
Dec 22, 2025 The Indian Exp.
Focus on ‘general government’ to attract global investment: former finance commission chairman NK Singh
NK Singh said India’s appeal to global investors hinges on fiscal discipline across the &ldquo...
Dec 22, 2025 Hindustan Times
8% growth rate key to meet 2047 developed India target: NK Singh
Singh stressed on the need for continued belief in the synchronisation of stable macroeconomic polic...
Dec 11, 2025 Hindustan Times
Jayasankar Krishnamurty: Lifelong friend, academic
Jayasankar Krishnamurty, born on January 7, 1941, in New Delhi, to Parvati and S Jayasankar, passed ...
Nov 15, 2025 The Indian Exp.
After its sweep, 10 things to do for the new NDA government in Bihar
When I landed in Patna on November 6 to cast my vote, in the short drive to the polling booth, I ask...
Nov 08, 2025 The Indian Exp.
N K Singh on Bihar economy: ‘Sustaining high growth of last 3 yrs should be aim … it is necessary but not sufficient for job creation’
As a bureaucrat, N K Singh had an eventful innings that saw him serve as secretary to Prime Minister...
Oct 28, 2025 The Indian Exp.
Bihar’s economy has turned around. Now, invest in people, institutions
Since I began writing on Bihar, my objective has been to invest optimism and hope into its developme...
Sep 11, 2025 The Indian Exp.
GST 2.0 has potential to trigger a virtuous cycle
India’s quest for tax simplification has been an abiding one. For long, the average person reg...
Jul 31, 2025
One nation, one election panel: N K Singh’s journey from IAS to RS, BJP to Finance Commission
N K Singh is a retired IAS officer who became a Rajya Sabha MP from the JDU, then joined the BJP in ...
Jul 25, 2025
‘For poor, populous states like Bihar, MSMEs key to job creation’: N.K. Singh
In a recent report from its Development Committee, the World Bank outlined the global challenge of j...
Jul 25, 2025
Ex Finance Commission Head On MSMEs' Role In Becoming 'Viksit Bharat'
Former Chairperson of the Finance Commission, N. K. Singh, on Monday said that Micro, Small, and Med...
Jul 25, 2025
MDB reform hasn’t gone far enough, while challenges have, says N.K. Singh
Singh discussed MDB reform in an uncertain global political climate and the implications of a potent...
Jul 25, 2025
Dr Manmohan Singh let FM Mukherjee prevail despite disagreeing on retrospective taxation: N.K. Singh
N.K. Singh, the Chairperson of the 15th Finance Commission, shared an insightful reflection on ...
Jul 25, 2025
Simultaneous elections will boost GDP growth, curb populism: NK Singh
Simultaneous polls will diminish non-quantifiable impacts on Indian gross domestic product (GDP), in...
Jul 25, 2025
NK Singh on lateral entry in bureaucracy: 'We need a middle path, that's what we have opted for'
Former 15th Finance Commission Chairman NK Singh on Tuesday said he was entirely in favour of latera...
Jul 25, 2025
'Regulator reform and autonomy critical for civil service quality,' says NK Singh at BT India@100
NK Singh, the former Chairman of the 15th Finance Commission of India, addressed critical issues sur...
Jul 25, 2025
Ratan Tata was a decisive visionary who contributed significantly to India’s growth story
There are few like Ratan Tata, whose lives can be described by the adage: “A life not lived fo...
Jul 25, 2025
Nand Kishore ‘NK’ Singh: A very civil servant indeed
Unlike the US, it is rare for senior public servants in India to publish their memoirs. As a result,...
Jul 25, 2025
India needs to sustain growth trajectory for next two decades, says NK Singh
India needs to sustain its current growth trajectory for the next two decades as it hopes to achieve...
Jul 25, 2025
N.K. Singh calls for a fresh look at the Seventh Schedule
Fifteenth Finance Commission chairman N.K. Singh has called for a fresh look at the Constitution&rsq...
Jul 25, 2025
India economist NK Singh is conferred honory fellowship by LSE
Indian policymaker and economist N K Singh was awarded an honorary fellowship by the London School o...
Jul 25, 2025
India becoming middle income country within realms of possibility: NK Singh
Fiscal rectitude, unsatiated consumption and demand and increasing urbanisation are among the three ...
Jul 25, 2025
NK Singh unveils MDB reform road map
Singh submitted volume two of the group’s report which offered a road map on how to create big...
Jul 25, 2025
Review: Recalibrate by NK Singh, With Select Insights from PK Mishra
There are many remarkable features of this book. First, two civil servants with very different backg...
Jul 25, 2025
High level Committee submits its report on One Nation, One Election- Simultaneous Elections core to Aspirational India
The High level Committee on Simultaneous Elections constituted under the Chairmanship of Shri Ram Na...
Jul 25, 2025
World Bank needs to restructure itself, attract private capital: N K Singh
The World Bank needs to reinvent and restructure itself so as to become 'better, bolder and bigg...
Jul 25, 2025
NK Singh, Lawrence Summers at Express Adda today
POLICYMAKER, ECONOMIST and politician N K Singh and Charles W Eliot University Professor, President ...
Jul 25, 2025
Freebie politics is eroding fiscal federalism: NK Singh
Chairman of the Fifteenth Finance Commission, NK Singh’s remarks come in the backdrop of senio...
Jul 25, 2025
Set up healthcare DFI to improve medical services, suggests N K Singh
Finance Commission Chairman N K Singh on Friday made a strong case for setting up a health developme...
Jul 25, 2025
Centre
Amid a raging debate between the Union government and a few southern states on devolutions of centra...
Jul 25, 2025
'MDBs need to be the tip of the spear': Experts Lawrence Summers, N.K. Singh on reforms of global development banks
One of the takeaways of India’s G20 presidency has been the call to reform multilateral develo...
May 07, 2025 The Indian Exp.
‘For poor, populous states like Bihar, MSMEs key to job creation’: N K Singh
In a recent report of its Development Committee, the World Bank laid out the global challenge of job...
Apr 28, 2025 NDTV India News
Ex Finance Commission Head On MSMEs' Role In Becoming 'Viksit Bharat'
Former chairperson of Finance Commission NK Singh on Monday said the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterp...
Jan 21, 2025 Business Line
Democracy and development are compatible: N K Singh
Democracy and development are compatible. They are symmetrical. Human freedom can be harmonised with...
Dec 27, 2024 The Indian Exp.
Manmohan Singh’s reforms roadmap: Foundation of New India to be set, he said before 1991 Budget
Manmohan Singh was an economist with spectacular domain expertise, but as Finance Minister in PV Nar...
Dec 10, 2024 Hindustan Times
Copenhagen Time Out
The Copenhagen on Global warming...
Nov 25, 2024 DD News On Air
15th Finance Commission Chairman NK Singh supports inception of ONOE
Chairman of 15th Finance Commission NK Singh has supported the inception of One Nation, One Election...
Jul 31, 2024 Hindustan Times
Media and Society Reconciling Contradictions
THE ASPEN Institute India...
Jul 04, 2024 London Schools of Economics and Political Science
LSE awards Honorary Fellowship to Indian economist and politician N.K. Singh
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) conferred a prestigious Honorary Fellowsh...
Mar 11, 2024 Hindustan Times
Pranab Lauded for Following Bihar Model
Complimenting Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee....
Sep 07, 2023
Reforming Multilateral Development Banks, advocating for the Global South
Multilateralism, as the most transparent and preferred mode of international cooperation, has been u...
May 05, 2023 The Indian Exp.
Padma Desai (1931-2023): Influential academic, a thinker ahead of her times
The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires”...
Jul 28, 2022 the India Exp.
From freebies to welfare
In a recent address, the prime minister shared his anguish on what he called the “revdi”...
Apr 21, 2022
Freebies are a passport to fiscal disaster
India is a Union of states. It is not a confederation of states. It is not a question of holding tog...
Oct 05, 2017 The Times Of India
Not by right alone
Right to Education Act and bias against private schools have been disastrous for learning outcomes....
Apr 20, 2017 The Hindustan Times
GST will help India move towards becoming a commercial union
Notwithstanding transitional hiccups, the time for GST is now, as John F Kennedy once said, “The t...
Jun 24, 2015 Hindustan Times
With India's economic prospects looking up, need to keep up momentum
Greek philosopher Heraclitus had correctly said that there is nothing permanent except change. How e...
May 20, 2015 Hindustan Times
Waning confidence in economy has been decisively reversed
Beauty, like success, lies in the eyes of the beholder. Predilections and prejudices invariably infl...
Mar 10, 2015 Hindustan Times
India's new fiscal architecture eliminates the form of neo-colonialism
The budget is well behind us, and so are the comments of analysts and policy makers. There is a cons...
Feb 16, 2015 Hindustan Times
Money-wise: A budget is as good as our implementation capabilities
Lowering tax rates and employment generation are a few things we should anticipate in the 2015 Budge...
Aug 05, 2014 Hindustan Times
There are no shortcuts to growth, poverty reduction
According priority to growth does not imply excluding the poor but it is important to identify those...
Jun 04, 2014 Hindustan Times
Change, and be seen to change
The Modi, age must reinvent government and governance. Redefining the people-government relationship...
May 23, 2014 Hindustan Times
Re-inventing Government
Does Monday mark the beginning of a new era – the Modi Era? What is unique about this beginning?...
Apr 29, 2014 Hindustan Times
Improve the ease of doing buiness
The next government must empower the executive to encourage better decision making...
Mar 14, 2014 Hindustan Times
Now is the Time for Rejunuvation
The UPA rule has seen meagre achievements and lost opportunities, leaving behind great challenges fo...
Feb 19, 2014 Hindustan Times
NK gives credit to "Collective" NDA for growth in Bihar
Despite deneid in the upper house JD(U) Rajya Sabha member NK Singh expressed his gratitude to CM Ni...
Feb 18, 2014 Hindustan Times
The Lost Decade
The Model Code of Conduct has come into effect. This effectively marks the end of UPA II. This is...
Aug 08, 2013 Hindustan Times
Not soulless statistics
There is a need to reassess, the way india defines poverty....
Jun 11, 2013 Hindustan Times
Maximise the benefits
The centre should device an institutional framework to enable states to learn from each other for b...
May 31, 2012 Hindustan Times
A new rallying Point
Including Bihar in the special status category will allow for a more democratic extension of the gov...
Mar 07, 2012 Hindustan Times
Will Assembly Poll Results Derail Reforms?
Dont link Mandate to policy decision...
Aug 29, 2011 Hindustan Times
Of accounts and accountability
In India the CAG, is only an ex-post auditor, not an investigating agency....
Jun 15, 2011 Hindustan Times
Against the Foodgrain
We cannot afford to hasten slowly on a food security law....
Mar 11, 2011 Hindustan Times
Budget does not address 9 challanges
Budget does not address New Delhi....
Mar 05, 2011 Hindustan Times
Consider food coupons for poor
Janata dal...
Mar 03, 2011 Hindustan Times
Union budget: A holding operation
Budget is at best holding operation....
Mar 01, 2011 Hindustan Times
Union Budget is a holding operation
This buget is at best holding operation....
Dec 01, 2010 Hindustan Times
Great Expectation
Old Bihar has yielded place to new Bihar...
Nov 25, 2010 Hindustan Times
Who can dare to let Bihar down at this stage
The expected has happened...
Sep 27, 2010 Hindustan Times
Bihar politics has risen above caste
Bihar politics...
Sep 21, 2010 Hindustan Times
Making Parliament work
Parliament reconstituted its standing committee last week....
Jul 13, 2010 Hindustan Times
Too small to fail
Any government roadmap for inclusive banking has to be multi-faceted....
May 26, 2010 Hindustan Times
Government seem stalled, It is time to Act
UPA is completing the first year of its second term....
Feb 23, 2010 Hindustan Times
Deccan Chronicle 23 Feb 2010 - Preview by M Gondia Rao
Not by reason Alone....
Dec 19, 2009 Hindustan Times
On disinvestment, make haste slowly
The UPAs renewed commitment to disinvestment is significant...
Nov 27, 2009 Hindustan Times
The compulsions of copenhagen
One of the major issues engaging our policy makers....
Nov 19, 2009 Hindustan Times
Needed : Special schemes for backward states
Special schemes for backward states...
Nov 19, 2009 Hindustan Times
Desired growth in Bihar in Past 4 years : Montek
Planning Commission Deputy chairperson Montek Singh....
Aug 17, 2009 Hindustan Times
New Tax Code-A Paradigm Shift
It will be atest of preserverance and political will to ensure the early enactment of the new tax co...
Jul 31, 2009 Hindustan Times
Time to Reorganise MEA
The future over the indo-pak joint....
Jul 15, 2009 Hindustan Times
Don't rush to implement GST says
I recognise this is an important step....
Jul 15, 2009 Hindustan Times
Elders warn against high fiscal deficit
Resuming the discussion on the union budget....
Jul 14, 2009 Hindustan Times
Budget after thoughts
Post budget reactions continue to be mixed and contradictory....
Jul 07, 2009 Hindustan Times
Budget no panacea for old
Trouble times call for troubleshooter....
Jun 09, 2009 Hindustan Times
On some secular issues, there's congruence between JD(U) and Cong'
The election result have dealt a big blow to BJP....
Jun 09, 2009 Hindustan Times
Elders tutor govt on poverty and Pakistan
The JDU on monday favored direct cash transfers to bank account....
May 16, 2009 Hindustan Times
Think beyond stimulus plans
Mail Today invited Indias top buisness leaders and thinkers....
May 21, 2006 Hindustan Times
Energy prices vs global warming
Global warming is in sharp focus...
Apr 24, 2004 Hindustan Times
The undiscovered country of the immigrant
“The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the abs...
Nov 15, 2003 Hindustan Times
Reforming India into a powerhouse
Looking at the Indian economy, one cannot ignore the ‘‘reform accelerator effect’&...