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The dictionary meaning of self-reliance (Atmanirbhar) is “reliance on one's own powers and resources rather than…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
India’s Non-Performing Assets, or NPAs, the official term for loans that have gone bad, are of the order of nine lakh…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The rate of real economic growth measured in terms of GDP at constant market prices (base year 2012) has revived in…
By Ajit Ranade |
Next month we will celebrate 30 years of the launch of economic reforms. On June 21, 1991 Narasimha Rao was sworn in as…
By Ajit Ranade |
India’s export of goods has been clocking a healthy performance for the past three months. It has been 34, 30 and 32…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
As widely expected, the MPC of the RBI kept the policy repo rate unchanged at 4 per cent in its second bi-monthly…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
In the context of quasi fiscal operation, it is important to address RBI’s role and function as debt manager of the…
By Ajit Ranade |
The official economic data for the first quarter will be published by the end of May. Last year from October onwards…
By Arun Maira |
75 years after its Independence, India is shining at the top—the rich at the top have done very well post…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
It is only but very rarely that a central bank announces emergency liquidity and other measures whose ‘immediate…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The severity, penetration and pervasiveness of the second wave of the pandemic opens new questions on the optimism of…
By Arun Maira |
The Covid crisis is the story of two global solutions to a medical problem: one was lockdowns; the other, vaccines.…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India meets every two months to decide on the main policy…
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The latest measure will push Indian banking, if not banks, into creeping privatisation and at the same time improve…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The monetary policy announced on April 07, 2021 has been along expected lines, on the surface. But barely below the…