The government has exempted the Customs duty on import of personal protection equipment (PPE), ventilators, Covid-19 testing kits, and inputs required for making them. It
Month: April 2020
The Chakravyuh challenge | Business Standard Column
With most states favouring an extension of the lockdown by two weeks, it will be instructive to look back and track the pace and manner in which
Come September, bad loans will zoom | Business Standard Column
The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) December 2019 Financial Stability Report, a biannual health check for the banking industry, had predicted the gross non-performing assets (NPAs) rising
The wrong diagnosis | Business Standard Column
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. That old line seems particularly apposite today, when the preferred response to the
Trouble for NBFCs | Business Standard Editorials
The unprecedented nationwide lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19, which halted economic activity, is affecting income and will make debt repayment difficult for both firms and
Four fallouts of Covid-19 mishandling | Business Standard Column
Two weeks ago, when India went into a 21-day lockdown, I wrote that we seemed to be living in the pleasant hope that the spread
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Covid-19 and foreign trade: How to ensure Indian exports survive the churning and pick up steam–Times of India
Companies dependent on foreign trade are especially vulnerable in these times. India’s biggest export markets – the EU and US – have extended lockdowns in
‘Migrants are needed for growth and development … government must address their problems immediately’–Times of India
What are the newer routes of economic migration in India? The most interesting one is the north to south migration. Despite the language barrier one
Life, livelihoods: Between the pandemic and poverty, India has tough choices. So the lockdown cannot be absolute–Times of India
Support for an extension of the lockdown, but with a calibrated exit for areas unaffected or relatively unscathed by the Covid-19 outbreak, emerged out of
Think bold: Covid-19 crisis should catalyse an economic reforms push–Times of India
Veteran banker Deepak Parekh has suggested that states should lure Japanese companies being pushed by Tokyo with a $2.2 billion incentive to relocate from China.
Lockdown: Selective, no more total–Economic Times
To Lockdown or not Lockdown — that is the question. The answer involves existential angst a whole lot more acute and less abstract than what
Room to widen the fiscal deficit–Economic Times
RBI’s Monetary Policy Report for April 2020 honestly articulates the uncertainty heralded by the pandemic Covid-19. What growth would be globally and in India, what
MSME sector will tide over coronavirus crisis: Gadkari – The Economic Times
NEW DELHI: The MSME sector will tide over the huge blow caused by the lockdown, and reduce chinese import dependence by ramping up domestic manufacturing
Prolonged lockdown may result in job cuts in IT industry: Former NASSCOM prez – The Economic Times
HYDERABAD: Indicating that prolonged lockdown to contain coronavirus spread may lead to job cuts in the Indian IT industry, NASSCOM former president R Chandrashekhar has said that the work-from-home
It’s important to keep the money flowing during a crisis – The Economic Times
Sugata Ghosh Delays and errors can weaken the ‘support’ that the economy badly needs. We are living in times when the quantum of money means little,
Coronavirus impact on economy and market: It’ll take India 9 months to come out of virus crisis: Deepak Parekh – The Economic Times
He pointed that public and private partnership can work, as in the case of YES Bank. Deepak Parekh has dubbed the current crisis a human
With SBI saying ‘no’, banks divided on relief to NBFCs – The Economic Times
The banking industry is split in the middle in offering moratorium on payments to the Non – Banking Finance Companies with one group extending the regulator blessed
Crude Oil Prices: Oil price war ends with historic Opec+ deal to cut production – The Economic Times
By Javier Blas, Salma El Wardany and Grant Smith The world’s top oil producers pulled off a historic deal to cut global petroleum output by
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