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By Vappala Balachandran |
The huge crowd of Indians at the Sultan Qaboos Stadium or at Dubai Opera House would have liked the Indian PM to detail…
By Ajit Ranade |
In India, banking contributes to more than three-fourths of the funding needs of the economy. Indeed, most of the…
The question that must be asked is this: Is our money safe in banks? How and why should Indians believe in anything…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
Clearly, in the hierarchy of preference of MPC, the need to support growth and investment ranked higher than the…
By Usha Thorat |
The real challenge for debt management will be to ensure that yields are not pushed up unduly, as this would have an…
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the RBI at its last sitting for the current financial year and the first meeting…
By R Gopalakrishnan |
The Prime Minister now faces a Modi moment. India needs leadership to reach out and honestly attempt a rainbow effect…
By Saugata Bhattacharya |
The good news in this is that the synchronised global recovery and the lag in the conservative monetary policy response…
If 2017-18 is any guide, there are serious question marks on reaching the budgeted fiscal numbers for 2018-19. This has…
By K. G. Karmakar |
This visionary and reform-oriented Green Budget for 2018-19 was expected to be a populist budget in view of the looming…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
Its rural and social sector proposals, the most attention-catching and hotly-debated of which is the Rs. 5 lakhs a year…
By Indira Hirway |
There is no doubt that the budget has come out with several new ideas. However, there are a few questions that need…