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When politics slows economy down
4 April 2014 4:34 AM ISTPredictably, with an assessment that the economy is set on disinflationary path, RBI has left the key policy (repo) rate unchanged at eight per cent,...
From taper to rate hikes
26 March 2014 4:19 AM ISTAs India gets deeper into a historic election battle, harsh external winds, mostly geopolitical, have begun to flow, compounding the economic and...
India at crossroads
26 Feb 2014 5:01 AM ISTThe 15th Lok Sabha was consigned to history after so much of disgrace was embedded in parliamentary annals and the combatants – a weak government...
Big challenges lie ahead
22 Feb 2014 6:32 AM ISTEven as the country is yet to fully grasp the dimensions of the deleterious impact of the UPA-II government’s interim budget arithmetic as well as...
Painting a glorious picture
19 Feb 2014 5:27 AM ISTFinance Minister P Chidambaram utilised the vote-on-account budget for 2014-2015 he presented to the Lok Sabha on 17 February to project a story of...
Battling for sheer survival
15 Feb 2014 4:33 AM ISTThe Congress had been preparing itself somewhat leisurely for what may turn out to be a battle for its survival, in the April-May elections to the...
Banking on his Raghulation
1 Feb 2014 4:27 AM ISTReserve Bank Governor Raghuram Rajan has again belied expectations, this time with a repo rate hike of 25 basis points, instead of a pause, to push...
A challenging course awaits
17 Jan 2014 5:28 AM ISTThe new year augurs well for the world economy, judging from a slew of global assessments, and induces hope for a better growth outcome in 2014 for...
A change in the offing
9 Jan 2014 6:33 AM ISTThe transformational change under way in India’s political scene, bringing people’s concerns to the fore in governance, that has been demonstrated in...
Can world economy smile in 2014?
31 Dec 2013 5:52 AM ISTA series of positive economic trends in the United States toward the end of 2013 has brightened the outlook for the global economy in 2014 and beyond...
Need for a quick fix!
6 Dec 2013 4:29 AM ISTIndia’s GDP grew by 4.6 per cent in the first half of fiscal 2014, with a projected five per cent for the full year based on whatever strength derived...
Rupee fall and supply rigidities
22 Nov 2013 6:18 AM ISTIndia’s economic ills emerge too daunting, from the latest OECD Economic Outlook, with persisting high inflation, fiscal balance under challenge,...