Category: Economy

In a democracy, people vote a party (or parties) into government so that their ‘lives will be better’. That phrase, of course, is more complex

There are three kinds of people who claim to have some knowledge of the state of the economy — economists, quacks and students of economics.

Both the second monetary policy statement for this year and the subsequent press briefing have failed to explain why a rate cut was not effected

Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian today expressed concern over growing protectionism in global markets and felt that India needs open markets to grow at 8-10%.

Will there be a rate cut in the near future on ebbing inflation or will the RBI look at current phase as transitory and hold

While reiterating the view that there was “very, very little chance” of inflation being stoked, CEA Arvind Subramanian in an interview with Banikinkar Pattanayak dwelt

In a way, 2005 was the year of memoranda of understanding for steel. Mega greenfield projects were set to add more than 100 million tonnes

A day after the finance ministry cast doubt on the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) inflation forecasts, Deputy Governor Viral Acharya on Thursday said price

It is paradoxical that at a time when agricultural productivity is a leading contributor to the country’s economic growth, farmers find themselves on the brink.

Finance minister Arun Jaitley did the right thing by making it clear that the government respects the RBI’s decision on policy rates, something that is

There is now little doubt that the economy has lost momentum over the past year. The latest figures from the Central Statistics Office are hard

The results for the January-March 2017 quarter may appear impressive at first glance  — corporate India’s revenues grew 10 per cent and net profit was

Chetan Ahya, global co-head of economics and chief Asia economist at Morgan Stanley, the global financial services entity, says global recovery will be on a

Successful demonetisation will help in raising revenues on sustained basis as more and more people will come under the tax net, says a World Bank

The latest print of data on economic output from the Central Statistics Office makes for sobering reading. While the government should take it as a

India’s GDP growth slumped to a two-year low of 6.1% in the January-to-March quarter from 7% in the third quarter of 2016-17. This shows a

Union minister Nitin Gadkari is spot on when he says farm loan waivers are not the answer to tackling rural distress. Making crop insurance more

Talks of Reserve Bank of India shifting back its policy stance to accommodative is gaining some ground even as not many are expecting the central

The growth of eight core sectors declined to 2.5 per cent in April mainly because of lower coal, crude oil and cement productions. The growth