Category: Economy

Wrong-headed cost-plus approaches to farmer welfare will only serve to scare agricultural prowess away. The Budget guarantees a wide range of crops a profit of

The Union Budget was received with substantial enthusiasm in rural India and with an equal dismay in urban India. This is what we observed on

The December figure for industrial production at 7.1 per cent, compared to November’s 8.8 per cent, signals the need to pay attention to job creation

So many questions have been asked about the Union Budget for 2018-19. Let me ask one on the Central government’s expenditure. What does the government spend

Former Union finance minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram today hit out at the Centre over its budget, dubbing it a “blood-sucking” dispensation, and

RBI Governor Urjit Patel today said the monetary policy decisions need to be “forward- looking” and cannot be taken on the basis of day-to-day inflation

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the government will take into account the actual input cost plus unpaid value of family labour while fixing the

Budget 2018: On expected lines, the Budget 2018-19 aimed at strengthening agriculture and rural economy. Agriculture deserves serious attention as roughly half of the population is

Budget 2019 can best be described as one made possible by an ongoing revolution in tax collection. This revolution is beginning to make possible another

Budget 2018: Given the prevailing economic conditions of muted consumption, the Union Budget 2018-19 was widely expected to focus on the rural and agricultural economy,

There is a paradox at the heart of the Narendra Modi government’s five Budgets. Growing numbers of taxpayers have been coughing up vast sums as