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By Usha Thorat |
Last year the Budget used CSO’s advance estimate that is not yet available for 2017-18. Moreover, the CSO has revised…
The long term impacts of demonetisation are sugarcoated with many ifs here. Such an analysis, claims and statements are…
By Vappala Balachandran |
The demonetisation, however laudable its objective might have been, has “left out” millions of migratory labour, daily…
By Arun Maira |
A good ‘industrial policy’ for an economy must be an ongoing process of systematic stakeholder collaboration, to…
By Ajit Ranade |
A slew of financial sector measures can be announced, which will lead to the deepening of the sector. Bank…
Apart from flagging concerns on inflation, the central theme of the minutes is the lack of transmission of repo rate…
By Usha Thorat |
In the backdrop of an imminent Fed hike, the global uncertainty, as also the difficulties in assessing the macro –…
Instead for harping on cuts, the banking sector might be well advised to handle the complexities arising in the near…
By Aneel Karnani |
The CSR law is inherently contradictory. Without a coercive enforcement mechanism, it is unlikely that the law will…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The finance minister’s statement that it will take two to three weeks to re-calibrate ATMs and that people must have…
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…