Category: Economy

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

India’s economic growth slowed to 7.1 per cent in 2016-17, the year in which 87 per cent of the currency was demonetised, despite a very

The Reserve Bank of India’s monetary policy committee (MPC) is expected to keep the repo rate — at which it lends to banks — unchanged

RBI in its April policy had surprised us by scaling up the inflation trajectory by 25 bps, with 1HFY18 averaging 4.5%. But it appears that

The dramatic and sustained disinflation India has witnessed over the past three years is the most stark manifestation of the macro-economic transformation the economy has

Ashok Lavasa, finance secretary with the central government, to Arup Roychoudhury on the case for interest rate cuts, lagging private investment and whether Air India

After abolishing the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) last week, the Narendra Modi government is close to announcing the next big wave of liberalisation in

Black money fight: Saying that the number of people paying taxes has radically increased in a period spanning just 3-4 months, FM Arun Jaitley said