Category: Economy

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,

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 Business Standard Chairman T N Ninan and Editorial Director A

The interim Budget for 2019-20 has “general elections” writ all over it. The big ticket item is, of course, the cash transfer scheme for farmers