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Budget 2024: From divestment to kickstarting private investment, the many silencesSubscriber Only
July 24, 2024 02:29 IST
Union Budget speech for 2024-25 is silent on why private sector investments haven’t quite commenced despite the corporate tax breaks in 2019.
Wed, Jul 24, 2024
Budget 2024 Explained Highlights: BJP acknowledges economic distress, need for Centre-state partnership
July 23, 2024 10:09 IST
Union Budget 2024 Explained Highlights: Here is the analysis and explanation of the key terms and announcements, and why they matter.
Thu, Jul 25, 2024
Explained: Key takeaways from the 2023-24 Economic SurveySubscriber Only
July 23, 2024 08:28 IST
The survey pegs the GDP growth rate for the current financial year (FY 2024-25) between 6.5% and 7%.
Tue, Jul 23, 2024
Explained: Dummies’ guide to the BudgetSubscriber Only
July 22, 2024 12:35 IST
Beneath the jungle of jargon, a Budget is essentially an exercise where the government tells the Parliament (and through it, the whole country) about the health of its finances. This means coming clean on three main things: income, expenditure and borrowing.
Tue, Jul 23, 2024
How to read India’s Balance of PaymentsSubscriber Only
July 06, 2024 07:12 IST
India’s current account registered a surplus in Q4 of 2023-24. But current account surpluses are not necessarily good, nor is a deficit always bad. Here’s how to read India’s Balance of Payments
Sat, Jul 06, 2024
Sticky inflation: Why is RBI refusing to cut interest rates?Subscriber Only
June 08, 2024 07:10 IST
Movements in the repo rate thus have a significant impact on the EMIs you pay for your car, home, or business loan.
Sun, Jun 09, 2024
No party wins majority: What does a coalition government mean for economic reforms in India?Subscriber Only
June 04, 2024 20:19 IST
If one looks back at India's economic history since 1991, it becomes clear that coalition governments have undertaken some of the boldest and most visionary reforms that laid the foundation for India’s resurgence
Wed, Jun 05, 2024
What Lok Sabha election results could tell about consumption divide across Indian statesSubscriber Only
June 03, 2024 08:15 IST
Data suggest a North-South and East-West consumption divide among Indian states, a proxy for income levels. The results of the Lok Sabha elections could suggest if there is a political significance to the consumption divide.
Mon, Jun 03, 2024
ExplainSpeaking: How joblessness in India has hurt all communities over the last 8 years, with none better off in 2023-24Subscriber Only
May 23, 2024 17:37 IST
Within Hindus, OBCs and SCs, feel the brunt; employment rate for both fell sharply by 6.36 percentage points between 2016-17 and 2023-24.
Thu, May 30, 2024
Breaking the Mould revisits Indian economy’s inequalities, and its possibilitiesSubscriber Only
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, 2024
What are the financial implications of the Congress party’s 5 Nari Nyay promises?Subscriber Only
March 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, 2024
ExplainSpeaking: Beyond MSPs and protests, some basic facts about Indian farmersSubscriber Only
February 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, 2024
On what grounds RBI, EC objected to electoral bonds schemeSubscriber Only
February 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, 2024
ExplainSpeaking: Consumer sentiments improving but still stuck in pessimismSubscriber Only
February 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, 2024
What the white paper on economy says — and doesn’tSubscriber Only
February 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, 2024
White Paper red-flags NPAs, scams and policy freeze, skips growth years creditSubscriber Only
February 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, 2024
White Paper flags inflation, bad debt, but silent on boom growth years, safety during 2008 crisisSubscriber Only
February 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, 2024
ExplainSpeaking | Stagnant sales but soaring profits: Making sense of quarterly corporate earningsSubscriber Only
February 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, 2024
Multidimensional poverty: meaning, numbersSubscriber Only
February 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, 2024
Interim Budget 2024: Concerns over GDP, spending cuts; fiscal deficit is bright spotSubscriber Only
February 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, 2024
Budget 2024 Speech Highlights, Explained: On Fiscal Deficit, no changes to indirect or direct taxes
February 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, 2024
ExplainSpeaking: 4 aspects of govt finances that the Budget speech won’t tell youSubscriber Only
January 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, 2024
A to Z of BudgetSubscriber Only
January 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, 2024
ExplainSpeaking | From (interim) Budget to IMF’s World Economic Outlook to US Fed and RBI meetings: A previewSubscriber Only
January 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, 2024
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo interview: ‘India’s policy frame is not focused on inequality’Subscriber Only
January 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, 2024Journalism of Courage
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