Senior Advocate Harish Salve’s remarks on economic slowdown due to the Supreme Court seemed puzzling at the outset. Isn’t the highest judiciary of the land a beacon
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Why be prejudiced against loan melas? – The Hindu BusinessLine
The institutional reasons for their failure no longer exist. Besides, banks are better at achieving social goals than microfinance Loans and melas are of different genres. While
Montek Singh Ahluwalia on why a $5-trillion economy is a pipe dream – The Economic Times
We need 8% growth rate to be a $5-trillion economy and we are nowhere near it. It is not as if the $5 trillion is
Why India badly needs an export boost to reverse its economic slump | Business Standard Column
When domestic demand is slack, competitive economies look to export markets. Indeed, every country that has grown rapidly has been a successful exporter. One of
Growing crisis of the educated unemployed | Business Standard Column
While Indians were busy celebrating the country’s global triumph and commiserating about its terrestrial adventures, two important reports went almost unnoticed. The eighth annual All
Economy will bounce back in second half with festival season: Nirmala Sitharaman – The Hindu BusinessLine
Says there’s no liquidity concern among private banks, NBFCs Asserting that consumption is happening and demand will come back, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday
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अर्थव्यवस्थेची गती वाढावी यासाठी अनैसर्गिक प्रयत्न करायचे नसतात. तसे ते झाल्यास त्याचा दुष्परिणामच अधिक होतो. यासाठी इतिहासातील हवे तितके दाखले देता येतील. परंतु त्याच मार्गाने
Loan melas: A blast from the past – The Hindu BusinessLine
The Centre’s direction on shamiana-like forums to disburse loans is reminscent of the past. But can banks handle the burden? Being a public sector banker
‘Blunder of DeMo, faulty GST implementation behind the slowdown’ – MONEY & BANKING – The Hindu BusinessLine
The government must simplify and rationalise GST, kickstartrural consumption, revive agriculture and tackle the lack ofcredit for capital creation, says former PM Manmohan Singh Sharing
Why the Modi govt should pick Friedman over Keynes and cut its expenditure | Business Standard Column
Ever since the first quarter GDP numbers came out saying it had grown by only five percent, everyone — particularly economists with little or no
View: A booster shot for India Inc is nice. But how will this lead to greater consumption? – The Economic Times
By Omkar Goswami At Panaji, last Friday on September 20, amid a Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council meet, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced major cuts in corporate
Tax cuts lovely but miles to go–Economic Times
The panel discussion that followed the meeting of the ET Awards jury on Wednesday concluded that much still remains to be done to convert the
Don’t kill e-commerce | Business Standard Editorials
E-commerce companies will come under intense regulatory watch as they head out for the biggest annual shopping carnival starting next week. The Competition Commission of India
Big bang steps | Business Standard Column–
The finance minister surprised almost everyone on Friday with her announcements on corporate taxation. The government has taken the decisive step of reducing tax rates
Flipkart: No slump, growth’s the talk of the town: Kalyan Krishnamurthy – The Economic Times
Consumption is growing in markets beyond the bigger cities and Flipkart has not witnessed any perceptible sign of a slowdown before the crucial festive season sales, Kalyan Krishnamurthy,
***Reviewing 59-minute loan scheme to boost efficiency: Nitin Gadkari – The Economic Times–
The government is reviewing the 59-minute loan scheme launched last year for the benefit of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to make it more effective, minister
View: Cutting corporate tax to accelerate growth could be the first step to structural change – The Economic Times
Bravo, Nirmala Sitharaman. After becoming finance minister and presenting a second-rate Budget, you have seemed a timid tinkerer, making dozens of marginal changes to try and
As NPA resolution crawls, banks stare at spike in credit cost – The Economic Times
With slower pace of resolution of bad loans, banks are staring at a spike in their credit cost, which is set to rise in the range of
Corporate tax cut: India sends up the monetary helicopters but will the gamble work?
By Andy Mukherjee India is making a second big fiscal gamble. The first – a switch from sales to consumption taxes – has failed to
Stimulus will take GDP growth to over 7.5% in second-half: NITI Aayog chief – The Economic Times
“The lowering of MAT will once again make SEZs a preferred place for export-oriented units. I am sure therefore that units already in SEZs will
