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Friday, May 24, 2013
To implement a decision first signalled in Budget 2013, the Finance Ministry has announced a major tax concession to investors in India’s debt market. The withholding tax on interest earned on inv...
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Saturday, May 11, 2013
Another session of Parliament has been adjourned without the passage of the Food Security Bill. Held up for long because of differences within the government on coverage and quantum of support, the...
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April 7, 2013
Some would have us believe that India’s leading stock index, the BSE Sensex, is passing through volatile times. Short-term upswings are followed by sharp declines, influenced largely, we are given...
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March 14, 2013
Even as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) frets over the high rate of inflation and wards off pressures to cut interest rates, it is faced with another challenge. Balance of payments data for the sec...
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February 1, 2013
While still at the top of the GP growth table, the Chinese economy seems to be on a long-term traverse from a trajectory with extremely high growth rates to one where growth is more moderate. Acco...
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January 2, 2013
If rhetoric is evidence, the UPA government is committed to reining in the fiscal deficit on the central budget at all costs. The issue being considered here is not whether focusing on deficit redu...
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December 13, 2012
As the Reserve Bank of India struggles to rein in the overall rate of inflation, there is reason to fear that food price inflation could worsen because of a poor Southwest monsoon. Despite a late...
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October 29, 2012
Ever since liberalisation opened up and deregulated the markets and institutions that constitute India’s financial system, the positive effect that has had on India’s banks has been a periodic refr...
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October 5, 2012
In its attempt to demonstrate to foreign capital that it is committed to reform, UPA II has launched on what many consider a liberalisation blitz. A principal feature of the new measures is the gre...
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September 3, 2012
The World Bank has joined the chorus warning the world of an impending food crisis with damaging food price inflation. In its late-August edition of its Food Price Watch the Bank reported that glob...
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August 11, 2012
News that the month-on-month rate of growth of Indian industry as measured by the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) was a negative 1.8 per cent must trouble the government. This is the fourth ti...
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July 11, 2012
Once again the situation in India’s food economy reflects a periodic challenge. On the one hand the government is saddled with large stocks of foodgrains and the country seems to be extremely well...
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March 28, 2013
India’s central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) as a group are sitting on a large cash pile estimated at Rs. 2,78, 595 crore at the end of financial year 2011-12. To make sense of that number we...
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February 18, 2013
The expected has finally occurred. Banks that were pretending for long that Kingfisher airlines would wriggle out of its problems and take to the sky again have decided the end has come. A group am...
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January 20, 2013
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Food, which examined the draft food security bill, has recommended one more version in terms of the coverage and support that the Act should guarantee. It h...
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December 23, 2012
India has emerged the world’s largest rice exporter, displacing Thailand from its leadership position, with rice exports in marketing year 2011/12 (October-September) placed at a record 10.4 millio...
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November 16, 2012
As the next session of Parliament approaches, the Prime Minister and the Congress Party seem adamant about further advancing their programme of financial liberalisation. Controversial among their f...
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October 19, 2012
Liberalisation was expected to change the foreign exchange earning and spending behaviour of India’s corporate sector. Once subjected to international competition after the removal of quantitative...
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September 19, 2012
While exports of services receive considerable attention, the role and importance of private transfers or remittances to India are only occasionally emphasised. Yet, it has been known for some tim...
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August 20, 2012
P. Chidambaram, as Finance Minister once again, seems a man in a hurry. Many are concerned that India’s growth is slowing, and that this (and other) evidence is hurting the government’s image among...
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August 1, 2012
As growth slows in India, news from abroad adds to the sense of gloom. Just released GDP figures suggest that growth has decelerated further in the US, clocking 1.5 per cent on an annualised basis...
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June 13, 2012
In absolute terms they still appear large. India’s foreign reserves at $286 billion are adequate to finance her merchandise imports for over seven months. That is a far cry from the two weeks figur...
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