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By Arun Maira |
A clutter of branded schemes with catchy acronyms will not grow more jobs. A ‘systems view’ is required to connect many…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
Neither RBI's annual reports nor the six-monthly reports on forex reserves disclose any useful information on…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
If one accepts IIM-A surveys, then the pressure is on the RBI to prove that its surveys are better. This is a technical…
By Usha Thorat |
It is to be expected that RBI will focus more on ensuring durable inflation closer to the target level as that is what…
By Arun Maira |
Participative and well conducted multi-stakeholder processes increase social solidarity, which makes good societies.…
The constitutional expenditure responsibility of the state governments is vast. The unsustainable finances of States…
By Usha Thorat |
RBI must distance its role as regulator/supervisor from the process to be put in place under the new Ordinance. It…
By Arun Maira |
Better livelihoods with adequate incomes for human beings along with good social security are big challenges for India’…
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India’s agriculture growth has been a cause of concern for some time now. The contribution of agriculture in India’s…
By Saugata Bhattacharya |
Under the given circumstances, both domestic and global, the Budget was the best possible. It has opted for a capex…
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It is not at all clear as to how enmeshing the Railway Budget and discontinuing plan and non-plan expenditure would…
By Usha Thorat |
Last year the Budget used CSO’s advance estimate that is not yet available for 2017-18. Moreover, the CSO has revised…
By Arun Maira |
A good ‘industrial policy’ for an economy must be an ongoing process of systematic stakeholder collaboration, to…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
Apart from flagging concerns on inflation, the central theme of the minutes is the lack of transmission of repo rate…
By Usha Thorat |
In the backdrop of an imminent Fed hike, the global uncertainty, as also the difficulties in assessing the macro –…