Economy
Hits & Misses of Union Budget 2025
February 6, 2025
For decades, the presentation of the union budget has been a closely watched activity and one that brings cheer and disappointment in equal doses, irrespective of the year when it was presented or by which minister. The scenario has been no different this year as well, since the ...
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Indian economy: Bold reforms awaited
August 21, 2019
After a prolonged pause in the first term of Narendra Modi government, expectations are high for the government to finally step back into reform mode and push ahead a series of much-awaited and bold reforms.
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Growth Curve
May 31, 2018
Major reforms like demonetisation and GST brought the GDP to a three year low. However, the World Bank has stated that the Indian economy is projected to grow by 7.3 pc in 2018 and 7.5 pc in 2019 as it has recovered from the impact of demonetisation and rollout of the GST. On Oct...
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Attacking Poverty
June 1, 2017
India dabbles in various types of social safety net programmes: conditional cash transfers, unconditional cash transfers, school feeding programmes, unconditional in-kind transfers, public works, and fee waivers. Yet, it accounts for the largest number of poor people in the world...
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India welcomes monsoon 2016
July 4, 2016
Monsoon 2016 comes as a relief to farmers across India. Farms to have enough water for irrigation and a good summer produce to follow.
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