Category: Budget

by Vrishti Beniwal India’s budget provided plenty of giveaways to farmers and middle-class voters, but was short on detail on one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s key

Budget analysis: Budget 2019 is the mother of all election budgets, but rates and inflation may rise–Economic Times

Swaminathan Aiyar’s take on Budget 2019 Highlights The budget showers Rs 6,000 per year on each of 120 million small farm owners. The budget will

budget 2019: Budget 2019: Did it address the key concerns of MSMEs and startups? – The Economic Times

While the goodies extended by Finance Minister Piyush Goyal this time, did warm the sector a bit, many industry stalwarts highlight the key aspects neglected

Rid Budget Math of Fuzzy Numbers–Economic Times

The Centre’s fiscal deficit has been understated in the interim budget with the government keeping some of the debt serviced out of the Consolidated Fund

Managing the stimulus | The Indian Express

Like in each of the previous two years, the run-up to the budget this year was rife with fears of significant fiscal slippage if the

Statistician: Unpalatable numbers: Statistician who rocked Indian government had to take a stand–Economic Times

P.C. Mohanan grew up in a village without electricity, studied statistics at a public university, and then spent more than three decades crunching numbers for

Budget 2019: View: Why this Budget is unethical and iniquitous–Economic Times

This is also a hugely unequal budget. This is an election budget that strays far beyond the remit of an interim budget, whose only concession

Moody: Budget gives no clarity on how to improve credit profile: William Foster, Moody’s–Economic Times

We had not expected 3.4% fiscal deficit target in FY20, The original target had been 3.1%. In FY21, the target is 3%. It is going

Welfarism and bias | Business Standard Editorials

Two of the major new initiatives in the interim Budget presented last week have met with sharply different reactions even though both were fiscally expansionary

Implementation worries | Business Standard Editorials

In the interim Budget, the government has unveiled two programmes providing economic assistance to the needy sections of society. These include the income support scheme

Govt’s shrinking fiscal space | Business Standard Column

Election year should be a time when we seriously reflect on the medium-term structure of fiscal policy. But election year also involves an interim Budget

Voters’ dilemma: Populism or inclusive growth? – The Hindu BusinessLine

There has been continuity in reforms under different governments since the early nineties. The Narasimha Rao government initiated liberalising reforms in many dimensions, NDA I

Budget’s how question | The Indian Express

The finance minister began with recounting the major economic achievements and reforms carried out by the government over the last four-and-a-half years. Inflation is controlled,

‘Filing return a must to get rebate benefit’ – The Hindu BusinessLine

Revenue Secretary Ajay B Pandey has said that one will have to file the return to get the full rebate on taxable income up to ₹5

Case for vigilance on the fiscal front–Economic Times

The Centre has overshot its budgeted fiscal deficit marginally this fiscal, with the revised estimate at 3.4% of GDP against the budget estimate of 3.3%

Sizing up the Budget: T N Ninan and A K Bhattacharya explain Interim Budget 2019, Video Gallery – Business Standard

Sizing up the Budget: T N Ninan and A K Bhattacharya explain Interim Budget 2019 Business Standard Chairman T N Ninan and Editorial Director A

Interim Budget 2019: Economy caught in a 3.5%/7.5% trap? | Business Standard Column