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By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
Monetisation of assets is an attempt to replace public investment by private investment without transferring ownership…
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 Arun Maira |
Trouble is brewing between capitalist enterprises and national governments. An Indian cabinet minister has berated…
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…
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The dictionary meaning of self-reliance (Atmanirbhar) is “reliance on one's own powers and resources rather than…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The rate of real economic growth measured in terms of GDP at constant market prices (base year 2012) has revived in…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
As widely expected, the MPC of the RBI kept the policy repo rate unchanged at 4 per cent in its second bi-monthly…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
In the context of quasi fiscal operation, it is important to address RBI’s role and function as debt manager of the…
By GN Bajpai |
The Covid -19 pandemic has mercilessly pummelled the health system globally. The human toll exceeds many times the…
By Arun Maira |
75 years after its Independence, India is shining at the top—the rich at the top have done very well post…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
It is only but very rarely that a central bank announces emergency liquidity and other measures whose ‘immediate…