Vikas Bajaj in the New York Times on privatisation in India.
I had recently written a blog post on India’s foolishness on visa rules for people coming into conferences. Siddharth Varadarajan has a great opinion piece on this in [...]

U.S. telecom and cable operators are likely to increase their capital expenditures this year according to estimates from Avian Securities.
In a research report released last week the firm estimates that telecom service providers will increase their spending by 1.5% to $57.7 billion.
Avian estimates that the largest spenders will be AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) ($17.5 billion), [...]

Today’s mobile phones are as powerful as the computer used in Apollo 11 for the moon mission. So how can India’s 400 million-plus mobile phones/NASA computers transform access to finance?
Many people have been talking about the potential of mobile phones to revolutionise payments and ultimately consumer finance. Chapter 3, `Broadening access to finance’, of Raghuram [...]