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By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The MPC has many reasons for which it has offered a rate cut. First, observed inflation and inflation outlook measured…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
That the Monetary Policy Committee will reduce the policy rate for a fourth time in a row was in no doubt. Most…
By Vappala Balachandran |
US President Donald Trump’s remarks on June 22 during Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s visit to the White House…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Many years ago, a plainclothes police officer known as an “encounter specialist”, that uniquely Indian term that has…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
On July 11, World Population Day, a Union Minister expressed alarm, in a Tweet, over what he called the “population…
By Aseem Shrivastava |
A year when the country celebrates the Mahatma’s 150th birth anniversary offers us a timely opportunity to consider his…
By Ajit Ranade |
The title of this column is actually a very fertile and active area of research in the economics and finance academic…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
India’s vast, mostly unregulated and fast-growing shadow banking sector is in the midst of a crisis. This is a fire…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The Union Finance Minister in her maiden budget speech on July 05, 2019 has made a significant announcement in…
By Indira Hirway |
Looking at the present conditions in India, anybody would expect the budget to address the most critical problems of…
By Ajit Ranade |
In the next five years India aims to become a five trillion dollar economy. It’s a nice round number, although the word…
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…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
As per the empirical exercise set out in the Economic Survey of Government of India 2018-19, the Indian economy will…