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By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Indian economy is at the crossroads, grappling as it is now with a massive slowdown and escalating inflation. The…
By Ajit Ranade |
In last year’s Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had spoken about investing 100 lakh crore rupees (…
By Ajit Ranade |
The former Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian has said that the current economic slowdown in India looks more…
By Nawshir Mirza |
Boards of corporations are supposed to comprise of sage individuals of a higher order than homo sapiens. In the popular…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) in its resolution on December 05 2019 kept the policy repo rate unchanged at 5.15…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
It was one of those rare events where the ex ante probability of the actual outcome was close to zero. A rate cut in…
By Nawshir Mirza |
Even the continuous blare of a Trump-et cannot divert attention from the existential risk posed to humankind and to the…
By Ajit Ranade |
India was a founder member of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT), which eventually became the World…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The deputy governor in charge of monetary policy, among other responsibilities, left the RBI towards the end of July…
By now, there is consensus among economists that there is a serious crisis in India’s economy. Public debate on the way…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
With a fourth successive policy rate cut of 25 basis points on October 4, 2019, the cumulative reduction of rate cuts…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
With a 25-basis point cut in the policy repo rate by the MPC of the Reserve Bank in its fourth bi-monthly meeting this…
By Ajit Ranade |
The freezing of accounts, and stoppage of lending and deposit taking activity of Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative…
By Aseem Shrivastava |
I read Gandhiji’s Hind Swaraj when I was 34. I should have read it when I was 17. But at that impressionable age, given…