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By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The full budget for 2019-20 presented on July 5 did not contain the kind of stuff that would fire up the financial…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
While presenting the budget the Finance Minister (FM) recognises that NBFCs play an extremely important role in…
By Arun Maira |
Economists are confused about the health of the Indian economy. Firstly, statistics of the economy are unreliable.…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
As widely expected, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of RBI, in a somewhat rare show of unanimity cut the policy…
By Usha Thorat |
The 25 bps rate cut and the change in policy stance from ‘neutral’ to ‘accommodative’ has been welcomed by the markets…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
We will need a series of actions that fix structural issues and can drive change in the medium and longer term. There…
By Arun Maira |
Iconic visions of Industry 4.0 are robots and self-driving cars that will eliminate human workers, and 3-D printers…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The headline retail inflation measured in terms Consumer Price Index —Combined (CPI-C) has trended downward since…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
There was no surprise this time. As widely expected, the MPC of the RBI cut the policy repo rate by 25 basis points to…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
One of the important objectives of demonetisation was to discourage the use of cash and to check the amount of “…
By Arun Maira |
Cities need investors to finance the building of their concrete infrastructure. But the demands of investors must not…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Union Interim Budget which was placed in Parliament on February 01 2019 has broken all the conventions of an…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
In the lead up to the presentation of the interim budget for 2019-20 by a ‘substitute’ finance minister, there were…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Union Budget 2019-20 to be unveiled on Friday will carry all the features of a regular budget without any fresh tax…
By Arun Maira |
Every year there is a hype when the Finance Minister presents the Government’s budget. Though the principal purpose of…