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Bank failures have achieved a hattrick within a short period: the PMC Bank, the Yes Bank and now the Lakshmi Vilas Bank…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The RBI annual State finances study, released this year on Oct. 27, comes with the special theme it has titled: “Covid-…
By Arun Maira |
The Covid pandemic has highlighted the urgency for economists to find a ‘new normal’ economics, which they have been…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
RBI governor Shaktikanta Das recently spoke of a focus on human capital and productivity growth as ways of pushing…
By Ajit Ranade |
Why do people repay a loan? Firstly, because they are bound by a loan contract to repay. If they break the contract,…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
There was a unanimous decision to hold the policy repo rate constant primarily because the headline inflation measured…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The Monetary Policy Committee of the RBI, which concluded its third meeting for 2020-21 on Friday, kept the policy rate…
By Ajit Ranade |
This is the first time in India’s history that we are experiencing a steep recession without any adverse shock of…
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Three farm bills passed by the parliament last week have become a bone of contention. At one level, they are a step in…
By Ajit Ranade |
The economy shrank by nearly one fourth during the first three months of this fiscal year. Much of this was due to the…
By Ajit Ranade |
The past week has been dominated by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s remark alluding to an “act of God”. She was…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
India’s macro-economic scenario in the post-Covid era represents a severe contraction of economic activity. The…
By Ajit Ranade |
In his latest stint Urjit Patel spent five years at the Reserve Bank of India, three as a Deputy to Raghuram Rajan, and…
By Rupa Rege Nitsure |
Acharya’s propositions strongly reflect the tumultuous period (2017 to 2019) for the Indian financial sector when he…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The monetary policy and associated statements and documents announced on Thursday (Aug. 06) unfold uncertainties that…