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PM Kisan, NYAY should better be left to states: Ex-RBI guv Y V Reddy
Read more about PM Kisan, NYAY should better be left to states: Ex-RBI guv Y V Reddy on Business Standard. Fiscal risk is more if PM Kisan and NYAY schemes are at the Centre, because it does not have hard budget constraints → Read More
How a gritty Indian market has been rallying ahead of Lok Sabha elections
Read more about How a gritty Indian market has been rallying ahead of Lok Sabha elections on Business Standard. Three of the last four polls have seen a sharp surge at the bourses in the months leading up to the announcement of results. Only 2004 turned out to be an outlier → Read More
Trust in institutions rises worldwide but not in govt and media: Report
Read more about Trust in institutions rises worldwide but not in govt and media: Report on Business Standard. The report is based on an online survey of 33,000 respondents carried out in 27 markets in October and November 2018 → Read More
Farm schemes to push state fiscal deficits to 3.2% of GDP in FY'20: Ind-Ra
Read more about Farm schemes to push state fiscal deficits to 3.2% of GDP in FY'20: Ind-Ra on Business Standard. In the current financial year, states are expected to witness a fiscal slippage of 0.2 percentage points to 2.8% of GDP in 2018-19 → Read More
The curious case of rising health, education inflation in rural areas
Read more about The curious case of rising health, education inflation in rural areas on Business Standard. In rural areas, the inflation rate in health rose to 10.14% in December from in 4.7% January → Read More
NDA govt deviated from the fiscal road map in 2016-17, says CAG report
Read more about NDA govt deviated from the fiscal road map in 2016-17, says CAG report on Business Standard. On the capital side, off-budget financing of railways carried out through IRFC borrowings are outside budgetary control → Read More
Industry slowed in note ban year; GVA grew by 7.2%, down from 9.3% in FY16
Read more about Industry slowed in note ban year; GVA grew by 7.2%, down from 9.3% in FY16 on Business Standard. Even as GVA growth slowed down in FY17, the number of workers employed by factories rose by 4.7 per cent to 11.6 million in FY17, up from 1.11 crore in FY16 → Read More
How NCLT Chennai's order may restrain the freedom of creditors' panel
Read more about How NCLT Chennai's order may restrain the freedom of creditors' panel on Business Standard. Going by a recent order of the NCLT Chennai bench, in the case of Ashok Magnetics Limited, this critical aspect of the code is likely to be reviewed → Read More
GDP back series data: New figures throw up a productivity puzzle
Read more about GDP back series data: New figures throw up a productivity puzzle on Business Standard. Gross fixed capital formation, which connotes investment in the economy, had touched a high of 35.8 per cent in 2007-08, declining thereafter to 28.5 per cent in 2017-18 → Read More
Govt releases GDP back-series data, slashes growth rate during UPA era
This is contrary to the upward revision in previous years that the report prepared by a committee of the National Statistical Commission had demonstrated → Read More
India a $10 trillion economy by 2030: Underestimation or business as usual?
Read more about India a $10 trillion economy by 2030: Underestimation or business as usual? on Business Standard. Despite the big $10 trillion number, average per capita real income would still work out to only about $3,270 by 2030; India would still rank 28th on GDP per capita at purchasing power parity by 2050 → Read More
IMF wants India to focus on FDI, cautions against relying on global markets
Read more about IMF wants India to focus on FDI, cautions against relying on global markets on Business Standard. Cautions against relying on global financial markets to its finance current account deficit → Read More
Twin shocks for economy as growth slumps, retail inflation picks up
Read more about Twin shocks for economy as growth slumps, retail inflation picks up on Business Standard. CPI inflation raised 5%high in June, RBI projection of 4.8-4.9% in first half of 2018-19. IIP growth slowed to 3.2%in May driven by lacklustre manufacturing activity. → Read More
Statsguru: Sharp hike in minimum support prices likely to up CPI
Read more about Statsguru: Sharp hike in minimum support prices likely to up CPI on Business Standard. NDA government fulfils its budget promise of providing MSP at 1.5 times cost → Read More
Shedding govt stake may not make banks efficient, says Jairam Ramesh
Read more about Shedding govt stake may not make banks efficient, says Jairam Ramesh on Business Standard. He said there were compelling reasons for bank nationalisation. The timing was political → Read More
Non-priority sector loans worsen NPA headache for public sector banks
Read more about Non-priority sector loans worsen NPA headache for public sector banks on Business Standard. Non-performing assets (NPA) of public sector banks (PSB) masks the sharp deterioration of their industry loan books over the past year. Balance sheets of 10 PSBs shows that staggering 23% of loans to industry in the non-priority segment. → Read More
Investment picks up to a seven-quarter high of 14.4% in Q4 of 2017-18
Read more about Investment picks up to a seven-quarter high of 14.4% in Q4 of 2017-18 on Business Standard. Economists, however, caution against interpreting the data as a broad-based revival → Read More
Four years of Modi govt: Jan Dhan Yojana brings down inequality, leakage
Read more about Four years of Modi govt: Jan Dhan Yojana brings down inequality, leakage on Business Standard. The fourth part of the series on NDA government's flagship programmes analyses the financial inclusion scheme → Read More
Karnataka's farm loan waiver likely to cost the exchequer Rs 250 billion
Read more about Karnataka's farm loan waiver likely to cost the exchequer Rs 250 billion on Business Standard. State government has fiscal space to provide for staggered farm loan write-off → Read More
Q4 GVA growth may improve to 7-7.3% from 6.7% in Q3: economists
Read more about Q4 GVA growth may improve to 7-7.3% from 6.7% in Q3: economists on Business Standard. The Q4 results will be released by the CSO at the end of the month → Read More