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  <title>IE Columnist: Ila-patnaik</title>
  <updated>2018-09-21</updated>
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<entry>
  <title>It’s broke, fix it</title>
  <id>https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/tax-payers-infrastructure-leasing-and-financial-service-bankruptcy-lehman-brothers-5367210/</id>
  <updated>2018-09-21</updated>
  <link href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/tax-payers-infrastructure-leasing-and-financial-service-bankruptcy-lehman-brothers-5367210/"/>

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    <![CDATA[ The IL&FS trouble exposes the weakness in financial regulatory architecture. Reforms are called for ]]>
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</entry>

<entry>
  <title>Why India should let the Rupee fall</title>
  <id>https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/why-india-should-let-the-rupee-fall-5347932/</id>
  <updated>2018-09-10</updated>
  <link href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/why-india-should-let-the-rupee-fall-5347932/"/>

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    <![CDATA[ In 2016, the RBI had been given a new mandate to meet its inflation target and maintain growth. Defending the currency at all costs isn’t part of the brief. This latest weakness will test its resolve.]]>
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</entry>

<entry>
  <title>Going on a hike</title>
  <id>https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/rbi-policy-rate-monetary-policy-committee-5214846/</id>
  <updated>2018-06-13</updated>
  <link href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/rbi-policy-rate-monetary-policy-committee-5214846/"/>

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    <![CDATA[ Rate increase by RBI highlights conflict between its role as banking regulator and government’s debt manager]]>
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</entry>

<entry>
  <title>When the supervisor slept</title>
  <id>https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/videocon-icici-deal-pnb-scam-chanda-kochhar-nirav-modi-bank-loan-frauds-finance-5129215/</id>
  <updated>2018-04-09</updated>
  <link href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/videocon-icici-deal-pnb-scam-chanda-kochhar-nirav-modi-bank-loan-frauds-finance-5129215/"/>

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    <![CDATA[ PNB, ICICI could have averted malpractices if banking system had a mechanism that sounded timely red alerts. ]]>
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</entry>

<entry>
  <title>Lessons from a fraud</title>
  <id>https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/lessons-from-a-fraud-punjab-national-bank-nirav-modi-scandal-5066965/</id>
  <updated>2018-02-17</updated>
  <link href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/lessons-from-a-fraud-punjab-national-bank-nirav-modi-scandal-5066965/"/>

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    <![CDATA[ PNB scandal points to unreformed financial sector, failure of risk management and auditing systems ]]>
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</entry>

<entry>
  <title>Behind the plunge</title>
  <id>https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/behind-the-plunge-indian-stock-market-5055365/</id>
  <updated>2018-02-08</updated>
  <link href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/behind-the-plunge-indian-stock-market-5055365/"/>

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    <![CDATA[ High volatility of stock markets is a response to global movements, domestic concerns over disruptions]]>
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</entry>

<entry>
  <title>The 6.5% warning</title>
  <id>https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/the-6-5-warning-gdp-forecast-investment-in-indian-economy-5019556/</id>
  <updated>2018-01-11</updated>
  <link href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/the-6-5-warning-gdp-forecast-investment-in-indian-economy-5019556/"/>

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    <![CDATA[ Almost all steps in the strategy to revive investment are likely to be slow and painful. There are no shortcuts]]>
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</entry>

<entry>
  <title>Extend and pretend</title>
  <id>https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/extend-and-pretend-recapitlisation-banks-reform-4914405/</id>
  <updated>2017-10-31</updated>
  <link href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/extend-and-pretend-recapitlisation-banks-reform-4914405/"/>

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    <![CDATA[ Banks can play that game no more. But recapitalisation is not the reform that is needed to prevent a recurrence]]>
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</entry>

<entry>
  <title>Maximum pain</title>
  <id>https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/maximum-pain-rbi-annual-report-demonetisation-4822963/</id>
  <updated>2017-09-01</updated>
  <link href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/maximum-pain-rbi-annual-report-demonetisation-4822963/"/>

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    <![CDATA[ Objectives of demonetisation could have been served better by doing a cost benefit analysis]]>
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</entry>

<entry>
  <title>Not with a bang</title>
  <id>https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/budget-union-2017-arun-jaitley-tax-demonetisation-gst-private-investment-4503088/</id>
  <updated>2017-02-02</updated>
  <link href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/budget-union-2017-arun-jaitley-tax-demonetisation-gst-private-investment-4503088/"/>

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    <![CDATA[ FM springs no surprises. Nor responds adequately to slowdown in private investment.]]>
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</entry>

<entry>
  <title>Reserved Bank of India</title>
  <id>https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/demonetisation-rbi-reserved-bank-of-india-withdrawal-of-legal-tender-of-high-denomination-notes-4473140/</id>
  <updated>2017-01-14</updated>
  <link href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/demonetisation-rbi-reserved-bank-of-india-withdrawal-of-legal-tender-of-high-denomination-notes-4473140/"/>

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    <![CDATA[ Demonetisation showed India’s central bank is too opaque. Its decision-making must be open to scrutiny]]>
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</entry>

<entry>
  <title>Crossing the chasm</title>
  <id>https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/demonetisation-cash-less-economy-e-wallet-online-payment-4417666/</id>
  <updated>2016-12-09</updated>
  <link href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/demonetisation-cash-less-economy-e-wallet-online-payment-4417666/"/>

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    <![CDATA[ In government’s push for a cashless economy, policy and regulation must focus on competition, innovation.]]>
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</entry>

<entry>
  <title>Show me the money</title>
  <id>https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/ban-on-rs-500-rs-1000-notes-pm-modi-black-money-cashless-economy-4368777/</id>
  <updated>2016-11-11</updated>
  <link href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/ban-on-rs-500-rs-1000-notes-pm-modi-black-money-cashless-economy-4368777/"/>

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    <![CDATA[ Ban on Rs 500, Rs 1000 notes deals with stocks of black money. But push to a cashless economy is premature.]]>
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</entry>

<entry>
  <title>Unprepared for bad days</title>
  <id>https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/credit-growth-bank-credit-commercial-banks-rbi-3086851/</id>
  <updated>2016-10-17</updated>
  <link href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/credit-growth-bank-credit-commercial-banks-rbi-3086851/"/>

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    <![CDATA[ India lacks the institutional mechanisms to deal with the death of firms and the failure of banks.]]>
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</entry>

<entry>
  <title>A note for Dr Patel</title>
  <id>https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/urjit-patel-rbi-governor-raghuram-rajan-3020952/</id>
  <updated>2016-09-09</updated>
  <link href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/urjit-patel-rbi-governor-raghuram-rajan-3020952/"/>

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    <![CDATA[ New RBI governor must build on Rajan’s legacy of commitment to inflation targeting — and communicate it too]]>
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</entry>

<entry>
  <title>Dengue should be prevented and not merely tackled when the epidemic sets in</title>
  <id>https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/public-health-not-healthcare-dengue-chikungunya-zika-mosquitoes-2943168/</id>
  <updated>2016-07-30</updated>
  <link href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/public-health-not-healthcare-dengue-chikungunya-zika-mosquitoes-2943168/"/>

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    <![CDATA[ As hoardings across Delhi indicate, we are waiting for a dengue outbreak.]]>
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</entry>

<entry>
  <title>The fall guy</title>
  <id>https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/raghuram-rajan-rbi-subramanian-swamy-policy-inflation-2822458/</id>
  <updated>2016-05-28</updated>
  <link href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/raghuram-rajan-rbi-subramanian-swamy-policy-inflation-2822458/"/>

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    <![CDATA[ Successful inflation targeting calls for more reform. Targeting Governor Raghuram Rajan is all too easy .]]>
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</entry>

<entry>
  <title>Sort out the tax maze</title>
  <id>https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/sort-out-the-tax-maze-panama-papers-panama-leak/</id>
  <updated>2016-04-09</updated>
  <link href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/sort-out-the-tax-maze-panama-papers-panama-leak/"/>

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    <![CDATA[ India needs to rationalise capital controls, simplify its tax regime to mitigate illegitimate cross-border flows.]]>
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</entry>

<entry>
  <title>Budget 2016 La-la land budget</title>
  <id>https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/budget-2016-la-la-land-budget/</id>
  <updated>2016-03-02</updated>
  <link href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/budget-2016-la-la-land-budget/"/>

  <content type="html">
    <![CDATA[ Official GDP data is embedded in its vision and strategy. But the numbers seem wrong.]]>
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</entry>

<entry>
  <title>Let the rupee slide</title>
  <id>https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/let-the-rupee-slide-rbi-union-budget/</id>
  <updated>2016-02-03</updated>
  <link href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/let-the-rupee-slide-rbi-union-budget/"/>

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    <![CDATA[ The economy is best served by lowering interest rates and blocking protectionism.]]>
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