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By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The RBI annual State finances study, released this year on Oct. 27, comes with the special theme it has titled: “Covid-…
By Arun Maira |
The Covid pandemic has highlighted the urgency for economists to find a ‘new normal’ economics, which they have been…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
RBI governor Shaktikanta Das recently spoke of a focus on human capital and productivity growth as ways of pushing…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
There was a unanimous decision to hold the policy repo rate constant primarily because the headline inflation measured…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The Monetary Policy Committee of the RBI, which concluded its third meeting for 2020-21 on Friday, kept the policy rate…
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Three farm bills passed by the parliament last week have become a bone of contention. At one level, they are a step in…
By Arun Maira |
Two Indian initiatives have found places amongst the ten best global initiatives selected by the Rockefeller Foundation…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
India’s macro-economic scenario in the post-Covid era represents a severe contraction of economic activity. The…
By Ajit Ranade |
In his latest stint Urjit Patel spent five years at the Reserve Bank of India, three as a Deputy to Raghuram Rajan, and…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
Despite some notable contrarian opinions in this regard, a majority of the analysts and market participants believed…
By Usha Thorat |
Viral Acharya argues that fiscal dominance provides the basis for a “theory of everything” that impacts financial…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Indian economy was already amidst a considerable slowdown in the pre-COVID-19 period. For example, the fiscal 2019-…
By Arun Maira |
It is widely accepted that the Post Covid world will not be the same. The disruptions in economies have been so severe…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
Much has already been written on the objectives of the Belt Road Initiative (BRI) from the Chinese viewpoint. They…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
A common thread running through external sector documents released by the RBI on June 30 is the buildup of a higher-…