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By Himadri Bhattacharya |
Food inflation, which was in double-digits in July, fell to 6.2 per cent in October, 2023, with a correction in…
By Ajit Ranade |
Sovereign gold bonds were introduced by the Union government eight years ago. Since then, these bonds, sold through the…
By Ajit Ranade |
Earlier this month, at an election rally, the Prime Minister made an important
announcement. That the free food…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There is something very 19th-century, Bombay mill-owner type of flavour to the comment by N R Narayana Murthy that the…
By Ajit Ranade |
The three most important macroeconomic variables for a country are the foreign ex-change rate, the inflation rate and…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Economics Nobel prize this year went to a single individual, Professor Claudia Goldin of Harvard University. She is…
By Ajit Ranade |
It is a truism that reduction in poverty needs higher economic growth, which can cre-ate jobs and incomes. India’s per-…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
What is clear is that till such time the headline inflation in India is on a consistently downward trajectory from its…
By Ajit Ranade |
India’s fiscal situation is more dire than is acknowledged. If we compare the debt service ratio, i.e. how much of the…
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As the G20 summit wound up in New Delhi on September 10, China must be pondering over the emergence of a world order…
By Ajit Ranade |
The biggest reform of 1991 was the dismantling of the license permit raj. In one swoop the industries minister,…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
As widely expected, the MPC of RBI unanimously decided to keep the policy rate unchanged at 6.5 per cent on conclusion…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
On the surface though external sector developments look resilient, a deeper study unfolds many weaknesses including…