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By Ajit Ranade |
The floods in Kerala and the quantum of aid it needs versus what is on offer from the Centre has brought back the…
By Arun Maira |
There was great uncertainty in 1999 about the outcome of India’s national election and concern that India’s development…
By Ajit Ranade |
In the medium to long term, the rupee will always depreciate against the dollar. The reason for this is that the rupee…
By Ajit Ranade |
The trust capital in India lags far behind the Scandinavian countries or even in East Asia. This trust deficit is the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The largest public sector bank and the largest private sector bank have announced losses for the first quarter (Q1) of…
By Arun Maira |
There are great expectations about the growth in the size of the Indian economy: that it has already exceeded the size…
By Ganesh N Devy |
The SIT constituted by the Karnataka government deserves praise for getting closer to cracking the conspiracy of…
The policy repo rate, which (over time) drives the rate at which banks lend to customers, has moved up from 6 per cent…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
But what is not a trick and carries the potential of a powerful framing of issues for 2019 is the message of “love…
The annual study of State budgets released this month by the RBI comes amid important developments in the fiscal…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Standing Committee on Energy in its thirty-seventh report to the Lok Sabha said that there are 40,000 megawatts of…
By Ajit Ranade |
The two reports serve to highlight macroeconomic concerns as we head into an election year. Consider some of the…
By Ajit Ranade |
A recent report from the globally renowned Brookings Institution shows a dramatic reduction of poverty in India. As of…
Eight years and 17 reports later, it is not clear if “pre-emptive” actions have worked to control some of the messes…
By Ajit Ranade |
The perception of safety of deposits in public sector banks is because of an implicit guarantee that the main “owner”…