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A Budget amidst macroeconomic uncertainties
07/03/2025
The Union Budget 2025-26 aims to balance fiscal consolidation, growth, climate change commitments, and the challenges of demographic transition. Key focuses include green bonds, climate fiscal instruments, boosting female labour force participation, and addressing the care economy and digital infrastructure needs.
The Union Budget 2025-26, in the context of ...
Spare a thought for 90 hours of unpaid work
14/01/2025
GDP is built on paid work, 90 hours a week or less. But unpaid work, mostly by women, in the care economy is glossed over in a debate on India having to work longer hours. Making the number of working hours the focal point of discussion overlooks the nuances of ...
Economists remember him for his brilliance and humility, and predominantly for his role in opening up a state-controlled Indian economy from the brink of macroeconomic crisis
Dr Manmohan Singh, the trailblazer of India’s new economic policy, is no more. Economists around the world remember him for his brilliance and ...
Much has been written about Singh’s role in India’s economic liberalisation. An economist views Singh through the prism of her profession and highlights that personality traits of leaders have an impact on a country’s economic trajectory. Manmohan Singh was indeed one of a kind
Manmohan Singh, the trailblazer of ...
India aims to reduce the fiscal deficit to GDP ratio to 4.5 per cent by 2025-26, based on the medium term fiscal framework announced amidst covid19, when we hit the ratio to above 9 per cent of GDP then. We have been firm on the medium term fiscal framework ...