Category: Economy

It is more than four years since my column, Tell me I am mad, (IE, June 22, 2013) was published. I had written that I

The government expects a double-digit improvement in India’s rank in the global index on ease of doing business, likely to be announced by the World

Farm loan waiver amounting to Rs 88,000 crore likely to be released in 2017-18 by seven states, including Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, may push inflation

Foreign portfolio investors (FPI) have been relentlessly pouring money into Indian debt for eight months in a row, with total investment on this score adding

Most commentators have explained the big loss in economic momentum in the April-June quarter by talking of the pre-GST destocking, as also the lagged effects

There is emerging evidence that the Ministry of Power’s Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana or UDAY has started to yield results. Ever since its launch in

Former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan has said that in hindsight it appears that the central bank under his governorship could have

The fall in portfolio inflows into equity may suggest foreign investment flows into India have peaked. But debt markets indicate otherwise. And that may not

By Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of breakneck growth,

In 2003, the government passed the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act (FRBMA) to bring the central fiscal deficit down to 3 per cent of

Ask the man on the street, or the CEO of a Sensex company what India needs to do lift itself out of sluggish growth and

  There is some criticism of the powers given to the RBI to give directions to banks to act against defaulters. Is it a good

India’s rock star central banker has found his voice. Former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan has broken his roughly one-year long silence on