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By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
GDP growth for the second quarter of the current fiscal has come in at 8.4 per cent, up from a contraction of 7.4 per…
By Ajit Ranade |
This week marks the fifth anniversary of the day demonetisation was sprung on the nation at merely four hours’ notice.…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Shah Rukh Khan once said: “First get rich, then become a philosopher.” It’s now time for him to look up to Balraj Sahni…
By Ajit Ranade |
Profits are rising because of higher demand, and higher prices being commanded. This is true for companies across…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Indian economy looks to be in better shape now compared to the conditions that prevailed in the initial phase of…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
As widely expected, the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India maintained status quo in the policy…
Monetisation of assets is an attempt to replace public investment by private investment without transferring ownership…
By Ajit Ranade |
Seen in the light of an acute fiscal crunch, the National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) is an ambitious idea. It aims to…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The government’s budget deficit which is otherwise known as the fiscal deficit, irrespective of the economic…
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There is a debate as to whether a large fiscal stimulus would lead to high inflation, warranting a hike up in policy…
By Ajit Ranade |
In 2016 the government led by Prime Minister Modi said that farmers’ in-comes would be doubled by 2022. It was meant to…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
As widely anticipated, the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India kept the policy repo and reverse repo…
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The Cooperative Credit Structure (CCS) in India is broadly made up of urban cooperatives and rural cooperatives. The…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The build-up in foreign exchange reserves to US$ 610.01 billion as on July 02, 2021, an increase of around US$ 33…
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Agriculture has all the pre-requisites to have the market-mechanism arrive at a pareto-optimal outcome, unlike in the…