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By Ajit Ranade |
The government should have focused not just on old stock but future flow of black money generation. Hence high value…
By Arun Maira |
People trust those who listen to them, rather than those who, from high velvet lined pulpits, preach to them.…
By Usha Thorat |
If 20 per cent of old notes do not return by March 2017 to RBI, the move would have impacted Rs 300,000 crore of black…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
As the RBI annual report of 2015-16 notes: “Central banks worldwide adopt standardised practice of upgradation of…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The demonetisation announced on November 8 is by all means one of the rare, bold economic policy decisions witnessed in…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
Women account for nearly 50 per cent of world population but account for only about 41 per cent of the formal work…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
While each of the members has articulated their views, the overall impression that flows is that members were keen to…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The decision of the newly formed MPC to cut the repo rate at this time is likely to hurt its credibility. It will do…
By Martin Macwan |
The vulnerability of women to sexual and other violence in the context of caste has been a sorry feature of our…
By Usha Thorat |
So the long awaited policy - the first policy from a newly set up and newly constituted MPC, the first policy of the…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
Clearly, the rate cut at this juncture is more sentiment-driven than fundamental analysis-driven. The market, industry…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
The institution of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) in many ways signals a monumental change in the process of…
By Ajit Ranade |
The high value note can be withdrawn gradually over a period of two years so as to cause minimal inconvenience to…
By Sudarshan Iyengar |
A person in public life has to be a person of character exercising self-restraint all the time. Gandhiji believed in…
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The nation continues to be subjected to an unseemly tug-of-war between the government and judiciary, taking relations…