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By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
We must not forget that the RBI has a seat on the PNB board. In any case, the supervisory machinery by RBI should have…
By Arun Maira |
It is unlikely that the conversion of publicly owned enterprises into privately owned ones will, by itself, reduce the…
By Ajit Ranade |
In India, banking contributes to more than three-fourths of the funding needs of the economy. Indeed, most of the…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
The question that must be asked is this: Is our money safe in banks? How and why should Indians believe in anything…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
Clearly, in the hierarchy of preference of MPC, the need to support growth and investment ranked higher than the…
By Usha Thorat |
The real challenge for debt management will be to ensure that yields are not pushed up unduly, as this would have an…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the RBI at its last sitting for the current financial year and the first meeting…
By R Gopalakrishnan |
The Prime Minister now faces a Modi moment. India needs leadership to reach out and honestly attempt a rainbow effect…
By Saugata Bhattacharya |
The good news in this is that the synchronised global recovery and the lag in the conservative monetary policy response…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
If 2017-18 is any guide, there are serious question marks on reaching the budgeted fiscal numbers for 2018-19. This has…
By K. G. Karmakar |
This visionary and reform-oriented Green Budget for 2018-19 was expected to be a populist budget in view of the looming…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
Its rural and social sector proposals, the most attention-catching and hotly-debated of which is the Rs. 5 lakhs a year…