Category: Economy

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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

Forget 8% growth, but expect recovery in H2 and also next year: Pranjul Bhandari, HSBC – The Economic Times

Highlights By our own estimates, fiscal deficit could go up to about 3.7% of GDP and on the back of this fear, we had the

Economic slowdown due to structural changes: Amit Mitra – The Economic Times

The collapse of IL&FS crippled the NBFC sector which is now facing huge liquidity crunch. West Bengal Finance Minister Amit Mitra on Monday said that the current

Beware dollar glut, not fiscal deficit–Economic Times

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has ruled out any expenditure cuts following the recent tax giveaways. This is welcome. Lower spending would be the wrong policy

Blackstone Group: Lower rates not effective way to stimulate growth: Stephen A Schwarzman Cofounder, Blackstone Group