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By Thomas Isaac |
The global economy and the national economy are facing a crisis which by scale and nature is unprecedented in modern…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
In a surprise move, the Government of India (GoI) in consultation with the RBI has enhanced the magnitude of its gross…
By Ajit Ranade |
Almost five weeks into the lockdown, it is clear that we are going to have a long hard summer. The economic hardships…
By Ajit Ranade |
Despite bitter political bickering, the United States passed its highest ever relief package to support the economy. It…
By Ajit Ranade |
The macro context to the Union Budget was grim. Nominal growth rate which is at a forty two year low, bank credit flow…
By Ajit Ranade |
The upcoming Union Budget presentation will be the first full year budget in the Seventeenth Lok Sabha. The backdrop is…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Indian economy is at the crossroads, grappling as it is now with a massive slowdown and escalating inflation. The…
By Ajit Ranade |
The former Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian has said that the current economic slowdown in India looks more…
By Ajit Ranade |
India was a founder member of the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT), which eventually became the World…
By now, there is consensus among economists that there is a serious crisis in India’s economy. Public debate on the way…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The reduction in the corporate tax rate and other relief announced by the government as part of a stimulus package will…
By Ajit Ranade |
If many car factories find themselves running idle, or with surplus inventory it could be because there was over-…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The full budget for 2019-20 presented on July 5 did not contain the kind of stuff that would fire up the financial…
By Ajit Ranade |
The interim budget in February gave a substantial stimulus to the taxpayer. Almost three crore taxpayers moved out of…
By Rupa Rege Nitsure |
The revenue arithmetic of the Budget is quite conservative. Factoring in the protracted slow-down phase and a shortfall…