Peak oil fears and the huge carbon emissions from coal have given nuclear power a second life

This tax on capital inflows soon became a talking point across the world

A show, The Big Switch, places slum-dwellers and BlackBerry users side-by-side. Most viewers will agree that this scene could only be conjured up for TV

For the governments, there are diminishing returns to curbing violence

India’s much-touted telecom boom is running the risk of coming apart at the seams -- the result of price-based competition that is seeing profits shrink at the country’s largest telecom firms

There is little doubt that more than 25 years of reforms have lifted growth rates in India and helped pull millions out of poverty

Nehru and Obama are part of a long tradition that believes public policy run by experts can solve pressing national problems

Now that growth is again a certainty, it is important the central bank keeps an eye on inflation and financial stability

First, high corporate savings are related to low levels of corporate governance, so shareholders cannot use their voting power to demand higher dividends and prevent firms from hoarding cash

India needs a single goods and services tax to integrate a fragmented national market and spur economic growth

Interference in dispensing justice greatly lowers the cost of committing crime and actually fuels lawlessness in society

Growing job losses are likely to have several effects, the most important being that the US Federal Reserve will find it hard to raise interest rates despite the need to do so

Preparatory talks for the summit at Copenhagen have floundered because rich countries could not sort these issues

Difficult economic and political conditions ahould not lead to abandonment of carefully crafted laws and rules, even for a short time, at the mere appearance of a problem

Child labour has complex reasons. Unless those reasons are addressed, banning products and companies using such labour will not end child labour

RTI petitions fail due to a combination of bureaucratic stonewalling (firewalling is a better description) and “sympathy” of information commissioners towards officialdom

Asian countries trade a lot among themselves in intermediate inputs, but a huge chunk of final global demand still comes from US consumers

A Bloomberg poll on Friday notes that relatively new Singapore outpaces the old City of London as investors’ preferred place of doing business

Motor vehicle output added 1.66 percentage points to the last quarter’s output change, courtesy Barack Obama’s “cash for clunkers” scheme that spends $3 billion to get Americans to trade in an old car for a new one

Swine flu is still with us but the nation seems to have bizarrely moved on to new excitements