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April 27, 2024 16:30 IST
Authors former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan and economist Rohit Lamba ask one central question: How should India’s economy grow? How do we improve quality of growth, health and education standards, and wages?
Sat, Apr 27, 2024March 14, 2024 04:30 IST
The biggest, at least in terms of the financial implications, promise among the five announced on Wednesday (March 13) is called “Mahalakshmi” and it involves transferring Rs 1 lakh every year to a woman from a poor family.
Fri, Mar 15, 2024February 21, 2024 09:57 IST
The MSP debate is just the tip of a much deeper problem: Indian agriculture has been grossly unremunerative for most farmers for a long time.
Thu, Feb 22, 2024February 16, 2024 07:08 IST
The RBI also noted that while the identity of the person or entity purchasing the bearer bond will be known because of the Know Your Customer requirement, the identities of the intervening persons/entities will not be known.
Thu, Feb 15, 2024February 14, 2024 10:11 IST
CMIE's latest consumer sentiment survey shows that rural India is low on optimism. RBI's latest survey shows that consumers have been pessimistic about economic issues right through PM Modi's second term.
Thu, Feb 15, 2024February 09, 2024 07:07 IST
The govt has come out with a white paper on the Indian economy, comparing its performance over 10 years with the UPA decade. It has attacked its predecessor for 'abandoning reforms' and 'policy paralysis'
Fri, Feb 09, 2024February 09, 2024 04:10 IST
From bad loans to high inflation, a slew of corruption cases to policy paralysis, the paper’s political imperative is clear: to draw the battle-lines in the run-up to the campaign for 2024. Its tone echoes Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sharp attack on the Congress in his Parliament speeches earlier this week.
Tue, Feb 13, 2024February 08, 2024 20:18 IST
The White Paper cherry picks data to tell the truth about UPA’s failures and the NDA government’s successes without touching upon UPA’s successes or its own failures. Here are the details.
Fri, Feb 09, 2024February 07, 2024 09:16 IST
India Inc’s financial results for the December quarter yet again show why corporate India may be holding back in fresh investments despite cornering growing profits. It is a matter of concern both for the companies as well as the Union government. Here’s why.
Thu, Feb 08, 2024February 03, 2024 07:07 IST
25 cr Indians have been raised from poverty since 2013-14, says Govt. MPI uses indicators covering three main areas: health, education, and standard of living.
Sun, Feb 04, 2024February 01, 2024 13:15 IST
Budget 2024 Key Points: From the govt's fiscal deficit to allocations for health and education to GDP growth, here's what the Interim Budget 2024 reveals.
Fri, Feb 02, 2024February 01, 2024 10:02 IST
Budget 2024 Speech FM Nirmala Sitharaman Highlights, Explained: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented an 'interim Budget', since the term of the current government will end soon and the country will go to polls.
Fri, Feb 02, 2024January 31, 2024 10:00 IST
Budget 2024: The government is all set to present the Interim Budget. Here are some queries (or analytical tools) that will help you make better sense of the claims and counter-claims set to be made on February 1.
Thu, Feb 01, 2024January 27, 2024 08:10 IST
As the BJP government presents an Interim Budget, its second in a decade, The Indian Express attempts to decipher the politics of economics in the choice of words the Finance Minister may use in the speech
Thu, Feb 01, 2024January 24, 2024 08:05 IST
The economy-related news cycle — both national and international — is set to go into overdrive next week. It will witness some of the most prominent events of the whole year. Here's everything you need to know.
Thu, Jan 25, 2024January 18, 2024 07:07 IST
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, who won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics for their work using Randomized Controlled Trials to evaluate social policies, spoke to The Indian Express about the most important policy challenges facing India. The duo, who co-founded The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) in 2003, were speaking on the occasion of J-PAL's 20th anniversary.
Sat, Jan 20, 2024January 17, 2024 10:31 IST
High inflation rates amid weakening private consumption demand can be a worry for investors. In a recent research note, economists at Morgan Stanley, which is one of the biggest and most influential investment banks in the world, detailed the three main concerns on the Indian economy.
Thu, Jan 18, 2024January 14, 2024 16:47 IST
What is CPI inflation and how exactly is it calculated? What is worth noting in the December inflation numbers? We explain.
Tue, Jan 16, 2024January 10, 2024 16:11 IST
The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation will soon release the data for retail inflation in the month of December. It can help understand whether you are economically better or worse off in 'real' terms. Here is a look.
Thu, Jan 11, 2024January 07, 2024 19:52 IST
The First Advance Estimates released on Friday are the last GDP data released before the Union Budget is presented. They also provide the first complete picture of economic growth in the 10 years of the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Mon, Jan 08, 2024January 03, 2024 13:48 IST
Traditional thinking with regard to helping the poor is captured by the following well known saying: 'If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.' But if one examines the assumptions in this, it can lead to a surprising policy recommendation: Just give a man a fish!
Thu, Jan 04, 2024December 27, 2023 10:06 IST
If one sees the Indian economy in the context of the global economy, 2023 has the makings of the year when India started its ascent towards becoming a developed country. But any close inquiry of India’s achievements reveals a far more complex picture.
Thu, Dec 28, 2023December 23, 2023 07:07 IST
The govt has criticised the ‘opaque methodologies’ used by the major global credit rating agencies to arrive at sovereign ratings. What is the govt’s argument, and why do sovereign credit ratings matter?
Sat, Dec 23, 2023December 20, 2023 09:27 IST
A new Bank of Baroda study shows that India Inc. corporate performance as well as the boost to private capital formation has been quite uneven — almost in line with the K-shaped consumption recovery.
Wed, Dec 20, 2023December 14, 2023 07:50 IST
In a recent Parliamentary debate, BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi coined the phrase 'Hindutva rate of GDP growth' and pegged it at around 8%. But a closer look at the data shows that the Hindutva rate of growth is almost exactly the same as the Hindu rate (around 4%).
Fri, Dec 15, 2023