Best of BS Opinion: An extended pause, Manufacture or service & more

The six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India, unsurprisingly, kept the policy repo rate and stance unchanged in the first meeting this calendar year. The rationale for maintaining the status quo is clear. The MPC intends to bring the consumer price index-based inflation rate closer to the legally mandated target of 4 per cent on a durable basis. Read here

We need to fix the fundamentals that determine the costs of doing business, not rely on temporary fixes, to make India an advanced economy by 2047, writes economist Ajay Chhibber. Read here

By 2050, India will be the most land-scarce major economy in the world but any solution first needs to recognise the unequal deployment of land, writes economist Rathin Roy. Read here