Around this time last year, the country was recovering from the shock of demonetisation. It created economic hardship, but it was a political success.
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There has been some heated debate on the “bail-in” clause (Clause 52) of the Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill, 2017, presented to the Lok Sabha…
By Itishree Pattnaik |
Much has been debated on the miracle growth of Gujarat’s agriculture, particularly after 2003-04.
By Arun Maira |
Having more independent directors of corporations, or separating the roles of chairman and CEO, and even giving more voice to small shareholders, which are the…
By Indira Hirway |
Providing productive jobs with decent earnings to all has to be a major goal of any development model.
By Ajit Ranade |
India’s modern tax reform agenda was defined by the reports of two celebrated task forces, both chaired by Vijay Kelkar.
The fifth bi- monthly monetary policy statement 2017-18 setting out the resolution of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has kept the policy repo rate unchanged at 6…
Weak investment demand would impede a higher growth trajectory. To top it, the predominance of consumption-led growth is a matter of serious concern in terms of…
In September 2016, with an amendment to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Act, 1934, almost eight decades of operations relating to monetary policy goals, frameworks, and…
By Praveen Dixit |
A case of police brutality in Sangli, a district of 2.8 million people in the well-connected Western Maharashtra region, should send alarm bells among every…
We are here because, as the RBI Deputy Governor Viral Acharya once put it: “Original promoters – who rarely put in any financing and primarily provide sweat equity –…
By Ajit Ranade |
Inequality cannot be remedied merely by depending on the goodwill and moral compulsions of the very rich. We have to acknowledge that India has one of the lowest direct…
We seem to have reduced the discussions on financial inclusion to a mechanical exercise in arithmetics, namely, geographically covering unbanked areas, or covering…
This column, provided here to illustrate Mr. Tarapore's sharp focus on the common person and his depth of understanding of the core issues at hand.