Udit Misra

Growth rate of Gross Value Added (GVA) merits attention as it points to an economic recovery even though the GDP growth rate has worsened

Typically, fast economic growth takes care of unemployment worries. However, in India’s case, one cannot assume that.

If one imagines all of India’s internal migrants as one nation then not only would that nation be the third-largest country on the planet — that is, after China and India — but also, it would be roughly double the size of the fourth-largest nation on the planet — the United States

The likely gains in FY22 will only bring the economy at par with where it was at the end of FY20

It is natural that many Indians thought the Budget would ramp up allocations across the board. In reality, the exact opposite happened

Budget 2021: There are two ways in which the government can boost growth. One is to cut taxes — for the common man and/or for companies. The second is for the government to spend more. Starting next year, the government wants to increase its capital expenditure relative to revenue expenditure.

At the start of the joint session of Parliament on Friday, PM Narendra Modi said Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had already announced 3-4 mini budgets and that the 2021-22 Budget should be seen as an extension of the same effort. As the country recovers from Covid and one of its worst years as an economy, The Indian Express unscrambles the A to Z of what to expect today

Budget 2021: Should the Finance Minister prioritise reducing sharply widening inequalities or focus first on boosting economic growth?

An Oxfam report, titled ‘The Inequality Virus’, has found that as the pandemic stalled the economy, forcing millions of poor Indians out of jobs, the richest billionaires in India increased their wealth by 35 per cent.

The latest Financial Stability Report states that non-performing assets could simply double between September 2020 and September 2021.

All four members have publicly been in favour of the farm laws and none of them has supported the demands for repealing them.

Budget 2021-22: Rising poverty, falling health parameters, worsening educational outcomes, inadequate housing and widespread unemployment are the biggest challenges facing the Indian economy.

India’s GDP 2020-21: This year, India’s per capita GDP, per capita private consumption and the level of investments in the economy — all will fall to levels last seen in 2016-17 or earlier, reveals latest official GDP data.

25th Amendment US Constitution: In the aftermath of Donald Trump supporters storming the US Capitol, many have urged Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment.

For the protesting farmers — primarily belonging to Punjab and Haryana — the farm laws will rob farmers of their traditional social safety net.

India started the calendar year by recording the slowest GDP growth rate in six years and ended it by entering a technical recession. Here's how it all unfolded.

The latest National Family Health Survey data shows that in several parts of India, children born between 2014 and 2019 are more malnourished than the previous generation

Between 2015 and 2019, several Indian states suffered a reversal on several child malnutrition parameters. Given the all-round adverse impact of Covid-19, the data from 2020 is expected to be even worse.

The international healthcare community has considered the ideal rate for caesarean sections to be between 10 per cent and 15 per cent. When medically justified, a caesarean section can effectively prevent maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity.

China followed a radically different approach by creating incentives and institutions needed for a market economy

This is one of the startling revelations in the first-phase data of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) 2019-20 — released by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on December 12 — and marks a shift since the last NFHS in 2015-16.

If inflation rate has been outside RBI’s comfort zone for the past 12 months and RBI has also bumped up inflation forecast, then why hasn’t it raised repo rates?

India's Q2 GDP data Explained: The soundness of the Finance Ministry’s assessment of India’s nominal GDP growth rate is central to the credibility of the forthcoming Budget numbers

A recent RBI report has recommended that large corporate and industrial houses should be allowed ownership of private banks. What led to this recommendation, and why has it come in for criticism?