@article {article987, title = {Propelling the economy with limited fiscal fuel }, author = {Ajit Ranade}, journal = {Foundation of The Billion Press}, date = 2020-01-24, year = 2020, url = https://www.thebillionpress.org/columns/economy/propelling-economy-limited-fiscal-fuel-987, Abstract = {The upcoming Union Budget presentation will be the first full year budget in the Seventeenth Lok Sabha. The backdrop is a slowing economy, badly in need of a fiscal stimulus to revive growth. Growth has fallen to a seven-year low. In nominal rupee terms the growth in the first half of this fiscal year 2019-20 is the lowest since 1978.} }