Category: May Look At Leisurely

The fiscal deficit number in the Union Budget is always keenly watched, and for good reason. It is a measure of government profligacy, of whether

Budgeting in India has returned to its original purpose: to raise revenue in small bits and to spend wisely in small bits. When nothing much

Budget 2018 came out fairly balanced, with disappointments on the income tax and LTCG tax fronts for households and markets, respectively. Further, the government’s projections

Every budget has a context, every budget must have a goal. The context of Budget 2018-19 was graphically described in the Economic Survey: The macro-economic

This government is especially good at optics, at managing public perceptions to persuade people that it is working for them, rather than doing so. So

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”. In Anna Karenina, only if a person is satisfied on all

The budget for 2018, at its core, re-enacts a familiar tension of Indian policymaking. On the one hand, it reassuringly tries to respond to genuine

Former finance minister P Chidambaram slammed the Budget 2018 presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in Parliament on Thursday and said the proposals should have

Budget 2018: Both demonetisation and GST disrupted the economy — though all evidence suggests the worst may be behind us— but as the Economic Survey

Days ahead of the Union Budget, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram trained his guns on the ruling BJP, asserting that the Economic Survey had nailed

On the face of it, getting to the Economic Survey’s higher FY19 GDP forecast of 7-7.5 per cent as compared to this year’s 6.75 per

The first instinct of any rational politician is to open the spending spigots in the months leading to an important election. Finance minister Arun Jaitley

The Economic Survey paints as bright a picture for India’s short and medium term growth, while pointing out some pitfalls. Growth in the current fiscal

The recommendations of the fiscal responsibility and budget management (FRBM) panel, which had recommended a fiscal deficit target of 3 per cent of gross domestic

The detailed and innovative analysis of the past few Economic Surveys was ratcheted up in FY18, with the goods and service tax (GST)-enabled data deluge

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) has brought in a boom for resolution professionals, and the same is expected for the industry engaged in valuation

The Chief Economic Adviser to the Finance Ministry, Arvind Subramanian, has cautioned against the current bull market rally. “I will not say bubble, but we

देशातील आर्थिक मंदीचे सावट दूर होत त्याला विकासाची रुपेरी किनार लाभणार असल्याचे अत्यंत दिलासादायक चित्र अर्थसंकल्पाच्या आधी सादर होणाऱ्या यंदाच्या आर्थिक पाहणी अहवालात उमटले आहे.

When asked to promote a general with many qualifications, Napoleon Bonaparte asked, “Is he lucky?” While merit and hard work matter a lot, luck can

The political economy in India, I think, unfortunately does tend to favour a stronger rather than weaker exchange rate, he said. A day after the