The government seems to have failed to realise the futility of raising the minimum support prices (MSPs) of crops without their effective enforcement. It has now hiked
Category: Economy
CGST shortfall may force govt to cut spending to meet fiscal deficit target | Business Standard News
Despite crossing the Rs 1-trillion mark twice this year, the goods and services tax (GST) collections are running well behind the budgeted target. As opposed to a
Don’t grow complacent with India’s improved Ease of Doing Business ranking: Plenty of red tape still ties us up–Times of India
Don’t grow complacent with India’s improved Ease of Doing Business ranking: Plenty of red tape still ties us up We have recently been basking in
How to sustain the good news on NPAs–Economic Times
In its twice-annual report on financial stability released on December 31, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) finds that bad debt held by banks fell
Arm the farming sector–Times of India
By Abheek Barua If good politics is — as it, perhaps, should be — about winning elections, it might be eminently sensible at this time for
In a state of flux – The Hindu BusinessLine
The Financial Stability Report suggests that the NPA scene has improved, but these are early days It is hard to be entirely convinced that India’s
Why foreign portfolio flows will stay erratic – The Hindu BusinessLine
Monetary tightening by central banks, curbs on inflows through low-tax jurisdictions, and continuing trade war are dampeners Most stock market commentators are extremely optimistic and
सोयीचे प्रश्न, सोयीची उत्तरे ! | Maharashtra Times
सोयीचे प्रश्न, सोयीची उत्तरे ! नव्या वर्षाच्या पहिल्या दिवशी प्रसारित झालेली पंतप्रधान नरेंद्र मोदी यांची मुलाखत अनेक अर्थांनी महत्त्वाची आहे. मोदी यांच्या प्रतिमेचा डोलारा प्रसिद्धीच्या आणि प्रसारमाध्यमांच्या
Lack of sufficient funds biggest roadblock for women entrepreneurs: Survey–Business Today
While most home-makers in the country aspire to start a business of their own, lack of financial funding proves to be a major roadblock for
RBI–Two steps forward, one back | Business Standard Editorials
The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) recently released Financial Stability Report (FSR) will have been met with some relieved sighs across the country, given that it seems
Unavoidable option – The Hindu BusinessLine
RBI’s lifeline to MSMEs was inevitable given the extraneous events that have landed them in crisis The evergreening of large corporate loans is at the
A fiscally prudent solution to farm loan crisis – The Hindu BusinessLine
While waivers are best avoided, expenditure can be met via callable deep discount bonds and by managing PSU assets better Direct institutional credit extended to
The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code: Economic growth: One good policy, and a few more to go – The Economic Times
By Taponeel Mukherjee Access to credit, data and transportation are among the most crucial drivers of economic well-being. To ensure better access to critical needs in India,
Donald Trump: India’s retaliatory tariffs to hit US exports worth USD 900 mn: Congressional report
India’s proposed retaliatory tariffs against US agricultural products including apples, almonds and lentils will have an adverse impact on American exports worth nearly USD 900 million, according
Jobs: View: India needs a competency-enhancing, job-creation master plan – The Economic Times
By Frank F. Islam When Narendra Modi was running for office, he promised to create 10 million jobs per year. The Modi administration has come nowhere near generating that number of
bad loans: View: A bad loan farce gets another rerun in India – The Economic Times
by Andy Mukherjee A new year, a new central bank governor. Yet the first salvo to come out of the Reserve Bank of India’s policy
MSME: RBI provides 1-year loan rejig window for MSMEs
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has opened a loan-restructuring window for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) for a year, yielding to a key demand of
2019 may finally put an end to India’s banking woes – The Economic Times
RBI’s proposed public credit registry for aggregating information about borrowers from multiple agencies at one place is expected to repeat the performance in retail loans.
RBI loan recast gift to MSMEs: Proposed to Urjit Patel, applied by Shaktikanta Das, hailed by Gurumurthy – The Financial Express
The loan restructuring plan for MSMEs, then called by Fitch Ratings as a “step backwards” when proposed in November, has now been hailed by S
Budget numbers game: How revised estimates allow govt to fix its deficits | Business Standard News
Union Budgets are largely judged by the numbers they project for the coming year and by the extent of slippage or improvement over the numbers