Off the Cuff: Surjit Bhalla in conversation with TCA Sharad Raghavan

Relative growth rates during NDA & UPA, India's poor data & analysis, youth unemployment, poor FDI inflows, the government's disinvestment policy — these are just some of the topics noted economist Surjit Bhalla dives into in ThePrint Off the Cuff, in conversation with Deputy Editor TCA Sharad Raghavan. A lot of the data and opinions mentioned are included in Dr Bhalla's forthcoming book to be published by Juggernaut "How We Vote", co-authored with Abhinav Motheram. #theprintotc
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1.29 - Growth rates - UPA vs Modi Govt

4.49 - Modi Govt did better than UPA on growth

5.27 - India is growing while world is slowing

7.54 - Heavily outdated Indian data

11.14 - Shockingly bad data and analysis in India

13.40 - Govt shouldn’t have scrapped 2017-18 consumer survey

15.52 - The politics behind not releasing terrible data

21.48 - Difference between subsidies & revdi

24.34 - How Modi Govt moved from subsidy to revdi

28.25 - Free food is like a universal basic income

32.47 - Why unemployment isn’t as bad as it looks

33.35 - High education levels the cause of youth unemployment

37.14 - Why unemployment suddenly falls at age of 30

39.24 - Complications around disinvestment

42.15 - Businesses that government should not be in

45.47 - Falling FDI into India and its warning signals

51.59 - What the new govt must urgently address after elections

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