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By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
The policy repo rate, which (over time) drives the rate at which banks lend to customers, has moved up from 6 per cent…
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…
We are on the edge of a full-fledged trade war. The U.S. has raised tariffs, China is hitting back and businesses are…
The Rupee is falling. We are within striking range of Rs.70 to the US dollar. In intraday trade, the currency touched…
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”…
By Vappala Balachandran |
A Brookings paper (June 8) quoting US defence sources said: “Adding the Indian Ocean to the mix dilutes China’s…
By Ajit Ranade |
The central banks of US, EU and Japan, for almost a decade, followed a policy of printing money, and kept interest…
By Arun Maira |
The inability to ‘pick winners’ with certainty in a dynamically changing world is the principal argument of liberal…
By Ajit Ranade |
China will import 8 trillion dollars of goods and services in the next five years, a commitment announced by President…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
However, the real strength and appeal of these messages is more in the way everyday people can relate to, practice and…
By Usha Thorat |
Given the global conditions, Fed rate hikes, capital outflows, elevated oil price rise, closing output gap, rising…