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By Ajit Ranade |
The big news this week was on two key prices. One is the price of the almighty dollar, and the other is the price of…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
One obvious casualty of widespread restructuring was the supervision of banks. The examiners of banks never had a clear…
By Ajit Ranade |
On August 31, it reported that India’s GDP growth rate for the April to June quarter was a solid 8.2 percent, well past…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
In analysing the situation, it is important to note that episodes of volatility are not a new phenomenon in India and…
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…
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…