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By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The global economy is suffering from twin shocks of a massive slowdown in economic growth accompanied by sharp and…
By Ajit Ranade |
India has been managing the world’s largest and longest running free food program since April 2020. This is called the…
By Ajit Ranade |
The third week of July marks two anniversaries of events in 1969, one national and the other international. The latter…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The RBI’s dividend pay-out to the central government for 2021-22 at Rs.30,307 crore was even less than one third of…
By Ajit Ranade |
In the past eight months, foreign portfolio investors have moved out nearly 40 billion dollars out of India, by selling…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
We will need policy action to enhance export competitiveness and further smoothening of the process to encourage FDI…
By Ajit Ranade |
Germany is the current chair of the group of seven richest nations called G7. This group is meeting in the Bavarian…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Indian economy is in the midst of some unprecedented challenges. A protracted war in Europe has introduced new…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The MPC in its second scheduled meeting in this fiscal raised the policy repo rate by 50 basis points to 4.90%, which…
By Thomas Isaac |
The two southern States of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, which have a more robust public distribution system, have relatively…
By Ajit Ranade |
There is a well-known debate among economic policy makers regarding a more effi-cient way of giving government…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The April inflation number was probably a key trigger, or something more out on the horizon that caused the discomfort…
By Ajit Ranade |
The bulk of India’ electricity comes from burning coal. This coal has to go from the minefields to the electricity…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
In an off- cycle meeting on 2nd and 4th May 2022, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) increased the policy repo rate (…