Urbanomics

1. Talk about likely Cheshire cats and Uber edition, as the company prepares for its IPO , Excluding certain one-time items, including ...

There are no free lunches. Every time there is exuberance in any bidding for public contracts, it is prudent to step back and reflect.  ...

Two recent judgements of the Supreme Court of India may have contributed to restoring the sanctity of contracts in India's infrastruct...

Conventional wisdom would have it that infrastructure contracts should be structured in a manner that bundles construction with long-term ...

Contract renegotiations are passé. The challenge today is not so much to prevent renegotiations by trying to write complete contracts, but...

It was inevitable and it now has surfaced on the horizon. Livemint points to a PwC/CII report that the power project developers who bid a...

The massive numbers of stalled infrastructure projects constrain India's economic growth on multiple fronts. Apart from preventing dow...

The Times carries an excellent story of yet another grandiose trophy project - the nearly $4 bn World Trade Center Transportation Hub - wh...

I have blogged extensively on the moral hazard that have been unleashed with the widespread trend of re-negotiations that have gripped the...

I can't get a proper handle on the controversy surrounding the government's recent decision to increase the regulated price of natur...

The Mysore Municipal Corporation's Rs 164 Cr PPP project to provide 24X7 water supply is the latest to fall victim to the curse of contr...