The Banking Sector Reveals the Middle Classes Aren’t Really Getting a ‘Bonanza’

There is a euphoria around the “tax bonanza” offered to the middle classes in this year’s Budget. The proposal of no tax for those with annual income up to Rs 12 lakh has been...

Read more February 7, 2025 at 11:16 am Anirban Bhattacharya & Pranay Raj

Budget For National Social Assistance Programme Remains Stagnant Yet Again

As expected, the budget for the National Social Assistance Programme (NSAP) – a crucial centrally-sponsored social security scheme that provides non-contributory pensions to the most marginalised populations including the elderly, widows, and persons with...

Read more February 4, 2025 at 10:52 am Asmi Sharma and Nancy Pathak

पर्यावरण संकट को लेकर बजट प्रावधान नाकाफी

वित्तीय वर्ष 2025- 26 में बजट अनुमान 50,65,345 करोड़ रुपए का है। जिसमें केन्द्रीय पर्यावरण,वन एवं जलवायु परिवर्तन मंत्रालय को 3412.82 करोड़ रुपए का आबंटन किया गया है जो 2024-25 के प्रावधानों 3330.37 करोड़...

Read more February 4, 2025 at 9:41 am Raj Kumar Sinha

Millions Poised To Be Displaced By Climate Change, But Few Signs India Is Planning Or Budgeting For It

With 14 million Indians estimated to be displaced by climate change and environmental crises, a number expected to exceed 45 million over the next 25 years, climate-induced displacement and migration is a blindspot in...

Read more February 3, 2025 at 8:28 pm Evita Rodrigues

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

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