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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…
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 Jagdish Rattanani |
However, the real strength and appeal of these messages is more in the way everyday people can relate to, practice and…
By Ajit Ranade |
The PM after his unprecedented electoral victory in May 2014, was soon blessed with an unexpected bounty, in the form…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Ordinary people must have the right of way, they come first, and that this is the only way Mumbai can thrive as a…
Given the surcharged political atmosphere, it is no surprise that trust in the words of the Finance Minister is low.…
By Arun Maira |
The over-arching goal of a society should determine how trade must be regulated. If the over-arching goal of humanity…