By Uma Shashikant Slowdown is the word on every lip. Numbers are tumbling out, showing consumption is dropping and businesses are not making fresh investments. While
Category: Economy
Note ban | Abhijit Banerjee: The economist who warned India of note ban pain–Economic Times
Banerjee and his wife Esther Duflo have jointly authored ‘Poor Economics’ to impress upon the effectiveness of solutions to global poverty using an evidence-based randomized
PSB Bank loans: State-run banks disburse Rs 81,700 crore through ‘loan melas’-Economic Times
The demand in the camps was robust and the secretary said that all the PSBs are maintaining their regulatory capital levels. State-run banks disbursed Rs 81,781
Exporters draw DRI wrath for alleged GST violations – The Economic Times
The government’s decision to ban onion exports and impose stock limits may have arrested the steep rise in prices of the essential vegetable, but experts feel it’s
India slipping on global competitiveness index is worrisome – The Financial Express
India sliding 10 places in the global competitive index is a problematic trend, but, as argued by this paper earlier (bit.ly/314xAsb), it is the cost
World Bank says slowdown in India is severe, cuts GDP forecast to 6% | Business Standard News
The World Bank cut India’s economic growth forecast by the most among South Asian nations on Sunday, below the outlook pegged by the nation’s central bank for
Half of world’s female entrepreneurs are denied funding; a third faces gender bias from investors – The Financial Express
Investment pitches by a whopping 50 per cent of female entrepreneurs globally are denied funding from investors, claimed a report by HSBC Private Banking surveying
RBI exercising forbearance on MSME lending as small business loans are in trouble, says Raghuram Rajan – The Financial Express
According to a report by CIBIL, the outstanding MSME credit went up to Rs 25.2 lakh crore at the end of 2018 up from Rs
We need to improve the tight credit situation: NITI-Aayog VC – The Hindu BusinessLine
Low credit-to-GDP ratio, perhaps, implies the banking sector is unable to meet the economy’s credit needs: Rajiv Kumar “Talk of recession is completely misplaced,” Rajiv
Is there a case for a strong rupee? – The Hindu BusinessLine
Growth with stability, not external intervention, will put the rupee in a ‘sweet spot’ to help India become a $5-trillion economy The Modi government has
Slowdown in three sectors, dip in imports hit GST collection – The Economic Times
The slowdown in three sectors – automobiles, cement and iron & steel – along with falling imports have taken a toll on GST collections, even as the
‘Suit-boot ki sarkar’ taunt made tough for govt to undertake corporate tax reform, says Arvind Subramanian – The Financial Express
“I don’t want to go into all the personal angles here. But looking back I realise that the taunt of ‘suit, boot ki sarkar’, that
India fiscal deficit: India’s fiscal deficit ‘conceals’ a lot, warns Raghuram Rajan–Economic Times
Rajan has often expressed concerns about the excessive centralisation of power in political decision-making in the country. India’s fiscal deficit ‘conceals’ a lot and is
Raghuram Rajan bats for Atal Bihari Vajpayee model of governance | Business Standard News
Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan has partly blamed a lack of “persuasive” vision and too much centralisation of power under the current government
The key to Indian economy is in better wages for the masses–Economic Times
By Pradeep S. Mehta and Abhishek Kumar As per the latest World Economic Forum’s Inclusive Development Index, India ranked at a low 62nd out of
Fiscal slippage, if it propels growth, is good: SBI Chairman – The Economic Times
Rajnish Kumar, SBI Chairman The Indian economy needs a boost and a slip in the fiscal deficit by 40 to 50 basis points will be
Govt will miss fiscal deficit target of 3.3%: Bibek Debroy – The Economic Times
Bibek Debroy, Chairman of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, has said in an interview to Karan Thapar that the government will miss the fiscal deficit target of 3.3
India’s fall on the competitiveness index is a reminder of its failings – The Hindu BusinessLine
Although India has made gradual progress on some of the counts, the pace of change needs acceleration if the country is not to backslide Competing
India’s fall on the competitiveness index is a reminder of its failings – The Hindu BusinessLine
Although India has made gradual progress on some of the counts, the pace of change needs acceleration if the country is not to backslide Competing
India Economic Growth: Credit woes in India seen pressuring Modi to take more action–Economic Times
By Rahul Satija A $20 billion tax cut and the lowest borrowing rates in almost a decade may not be enough to bolster the credit
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