During the year-long agitation in 2020-21, the farmers gave a call to boycott Ambani and Adani. Now they have given a call to Observe Corporate Quit India Day on 9th AugustĀ 2024. They have...
As the country gears up for the presentation of the Budget for the financial year (FY) 2024-25, the economic survey for 2023-24, tabled by Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is key to understanding what...
We, former mayors, and commissioners who have served city governments in different periods of time welcome you to this historic town of Shimla.
As India prepares for the next budget, here is another critical issue it needs to focus on: The galloping trade deficit. According to the First Advance Estimate (AE1), released earlier this month, the trade...
Somewhat like āthalinomicsā of Economic Survey of 2019-20 which measured household incomes and ādosa economicsā of Raghuram Rajan in 2016 to explain inflation, ācar economicsā explains the higher-growth-higher-inequality paradigm
Import barriers are self-inflicted wounds which is not only disabling the fourth growth engine ā exports ā but also increasing forex outflows
For the past 36 years, banks' pensions have not been upgraded. No social security, like universal basic income, is considered. The vast majority of unorganised sector workers (94%) do not have access to provident...
Contrary to the claims of the Finance Minister, India is in recession. Even the RBI agrees. Inequality is on the rise. From jobless growth, we are in 'job loss' growth. Study after study confirms...
Nearly a month after Maruti Suzuki chairman RC Bhargava raised a stink by saying that peopleās ability to buy small cars has eroded and would continue to decline next year and national dailies reported...
The Indian tax system has been regressive for long with direct tax contributing less than indirect tax ā contrary to what happens in developed economies. It is also known that tax incentives benefit corporates...
Touted as the first paperless budget, the budget 2022 was after all a people-less budget that was far removed from the pressing concerns of the day. This was starkly similar to the Economic Survey...
A few months ago, a news made headlines, doing rounds in the social media about how it was a matter of much shame that India had fallen behind Bangladesh on the metric of Per...
On August 27, the World Bank came out with a statementĀ suspendingĀ the Doing Business Report. The statement said that a number of irregularities have been reported regarding changes to the data in the Doing Business...
Finance Minister gave a press statement and a document of 27 pages has been released. Everybody is hoping now for the other parts. When the economy is in crisis everyone hoped for relief package...
Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman while unveiling EASE 30 Public Sector Bank Reform plan stated, āYour good will is lost, personal connection is lost, assessment at the bottom level is lostā¦ forgetting branch level connect with...
