The Ostrich Budget: An Analysis of the Union Budget 2025-26

A reading of the budget and the Economic Survey is a crucial exercise to understand the direction that the economy is taking. It gives a sense of how responsive is a government to the...

Read more February 3, 2025 at 8:07 pm CFA

Budget 2025 – rhetorics repeated

Slogans modified. No efforts to revive the Economy. In a surprise, Dr. Ananda Nageswaran, Chief Economic Advisor, with his team of more than 150 people, produced an Economic Survey 2025 with certain critical comments....

Read more February 2, 2025 at 10:03 am Thomas Franco

विश्व आर्द्रभूमि दिवस ( 2 फरवरी) पर विशेषआद्रभूमि को संरक्षित करने का सार्थक प्रयास आवश्यक

ईरान के शहर रामसर के केस्पियन सागर तट पर दो फरवरी 1971 को अंतर्राष्ट्रीय वेटलैंड (आद्रभूमि) कन्वेंशन का आयोजन हुआ था। जिसमें संयुक्त राष्ट्र संघ ने दो फरवरी को आद्रभूमि दिवस घोषित किया था।...

Read more February 2, 2025 at 9:24 am Raj Kumar Sinha

Economic Survey 2025: Development for Whom? | Finance Matters, 31 January 2025 | Editorial

The Economic Survey 2025 tabled by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, projects a 6.3 – 6.8% growth rate for FY 26, ahead of the Union Budget 2025-26. But, what does it mean to the common...

Read more January 31, 2025 at 10:46 pm CFA

கடற்கரைகளில் திணிக்கப்படும் நீலப் பொருளாதாரம்!

உலக வங்கியின் நிதியுதவியுடன், ‘ரூ.1,675 கோடி செலவில் அடுத்த ஐந்து ஆண்டுகளில், ‘தமிழக நெய்தல் மீட்சி இயக்கம் (Tamil Nadu Coastal Restoration Mission)’ செயல்படுத்தப்படும்’ என்று 2023இல் அறிவிக்கப்பட்டது. இந்தத் திட்டமானது கடலோர உயிர்ப் பன்மை மேம்பாடு, சூழலியல் பாதுகாப்பு, வாழ்க்கைத்தர மேம்பாடு, ஞெகிழிப் பயன்பாட்டைக்...

Read more January 30, 2025 at 11:50 pm Pradeep Elangovan

The Budget India Needs

A People’s Blueprint for the 2025-26 Budget! At the threshold of the 2025 budget, the vitals of the economy are causing alarm to those who are bothered to look beyond the hyperbole and manufactured...

Read more January 30, 2025 at 2:23 pm CFA

Development of Local Economy by Grassroots Organizations – An Experience from the South

The entire economy of the country is under stress today. Unprecedented unemployment, lack of support for micro enterprises, communal tensions, lack of markets for produce, intermediaries taking a major share of the profit, erosion...

Read more January 29, 2025 at 11:50 am Thomas Franco

Budget 2025: Income Tax & the Growing Inequality Gap | Finance Matters, 25 January 2025 | Editorial

The Union Budget is only a few days away and speculations that the Income Tax will be reduced is high.

Read more January 26, 2025 at 6:02 pm CFA

सौर से सस्ती होगी बिजली

भले ही दो दिन बाद सर्वशक्तिमान माने जाने वाले अमरीका का राजपाट एक ऐसे व्यक्ति के हाथों में आ जाए जिसमें जलवायु परिवर्तन पर हुआ ‘पेरिस समझौता’ जरा भी नहीं सुहाता, लेकिन लगातार बढ़ता...

Read more January 25, 2025 at 12:38 pm Raj Kumar Sinha

The Finance Minister has a great opportunity to amend the tax structure. Will she do it?

Peoples Commission on Public Sector and Public Services has issued a statement on tax structure which the Finance Minister should look into. All over the world there are changes proposed in the tax system...

Read more January 25, 2025 at 12:26 pm Thomas Franco

Response to the Cost and Benefit Analysis of the Asian Development Bank Accountability Mechanism by the Asian Development Bank

At the very outset, we would like to appreciate ADB in doing this analysis and sharing the information publicly. The costs We are astonished by the fact that $5 mn (2023 prices) was spent...

Read more January 25, 2025 at 10:47 am CFA

The Budget Series

Budget 2025: What’s at Stake?, a series co-produced by The Wire and Centre for Financial Accountability Episode 1The Economic Rights Every Indian Should Have | Prabhat Patnaik (Senior Economist) Episode 2Budget 2025 Needs to...

Read more January 21, 2025 at 6:45 pm The Wire & CFA

कोई “चारा” नहीं है!

आर्थिक स्वतंत्रता के लिए भूमि तलाशतीं महिला पशुपालक सुमन आजमगढ़ जनपद, उत्तर प्रदेश के सोहवल गांव की निवासी हैं। उनके पति प्रवासी मजदूर हैं और सुमन गांव में अपने दो बच्चों के साथ रहती...

Read more January 21, 2025 at 4:00 pm Raj Shekhar

Another Budget, Another Opportunity | Finance Matters, 10 January 2025 | Editorial

We are just around the corner for another budget. The Finance Minister has been consulting regular industry leaders, business associations, and occasional trade unions in preparation for the budget. While memes around the falling...

Read more January 17, 2025 at 9:46 am CFA

Indian Banks and Environmental Accountability: A New Year of Complicity and Deception?

Indian banks walked nonchalantly into the new year, their indifference as thick as the smoke from industrial projects they finance. Pollution levels soared, environmental concerns, and sometimes protests, were witnessed over big infra projects...

Read more January 15, 2025 at 7:34 pm Amitanshu Verma

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