Category: Economy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,