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28/11/2024
The fiscal policy has remained accommodative in the post pandemic period. The stipulated fiscal deficit-GDP ratio envisioned for the State governments is 3.5 per cent of GSDP. This increase in the threshold ratio from 3 per cent of GSDP fiscal rule to 3.5 per cent is welcome ...
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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report and International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) Mumbai recently released the 2023 Ageing Report, which reports that India's elderly population (above 60 years) will double to over 20 percent of its total population by 2050. Given the delimitation exercise (which decides the Lok ...
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Bibek Debroy -- multi-faceted genius, renowned economist and Padma Shri awardee -- is no more. Bibek da, as most economists in the Lutyens' Delhi used to call him, leaves behind a profound legacy ...
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The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for ...