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20% of informal workers remain unemployed post-lockdown: SurveyThe findings are based on a second round of survey as part of a study titled “How robust is the recovery? Tracking informal workers through...
View: Why 2008 now looks like a picnicAs investment managers, we do know that equities are a seductive asset class.
View: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman needs to be audacious on July 5Sitharaman's first Budget will be presented under a grim scenario, with GDP slipping to a 20-quarter low.
How Aadhar is helping welfare schemes like NREGA, Swachch Bharat get a new lease of lifeThe govt is aligning Nrega with Aadhar, biometric database to make payments directly to beneficiaries and weed out frauds who siphon off mo...
TMC calls the Budget 2016 'hopeless'Speaking to the media at the state secretariat, Bengal FM said, “This is a directionless budget. It is not for common people. West Bengal h...
Budget 2016: Rural consumption will get a boost, but will be a slow burnSales of household items, ranging from toothpastes and detergents to biscuits and beverages have slowed to about 5-6 per cent over the last...
Budget 2014: How PM Narendra Modi's first Budget may look likeIt’s safe to assume Modi in 2014 would want to avoid being tagged as 'playing safe'. The ‘I will change things’ politics of his election vi...
Budget 2013 is neither for people nor for growth, says Sitaram Yechuri, Polit Bureau Member, CPMFiscal fundamentalism has triumphed at the expense of expanding domestic demand via higher public investment.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram faces resistance from Plan panel on spending cutsThe burden of fiscal consolidation has largely fallen on plan expenditure, which includes spending on welfare schemes such as NREGA.
Budget 2012: Why budget estimates are almost always off the markA stark difference between what the govt expects its finances to be and what the actual pattern of finances are is an old problem.
- Government banking on savings from flagship social schemes like NREGA, lower commodity prices to keep deficit in check
The finance ministry is betting on substantial savings in some of the flagship social schemes and lower commodity prices to keep finances i...
Union Budget 2011: Pranab Mukherjee presents his 6th federal budgetFinance Minister Pranab Mukherjee presents the federal budget in Lok Sabha for the ensuing fiscal and his sixth such exercise.
- 33% more funds likely for rural jobs
The government is likely to spend more on creating rural jobs than originally budgeted for in fiscal 2009-10 as layoffs in the construction...
- 33% more funds likely for rural jobs
The government is likely to spend more on creating rural jobs than originally budgeted for in fiscal 2009-10 as layoffs in the construction...
- For aam admi, but job losses & deficits left unaddressed
The interim budget ignored two areas- unemployment and fiscal deficit.
- Fiscal package too little, too late, says CPM
The Manmohan Singh government’s fiscal package came under attack on Tuesday, with the Left dubbing it as “too late and grossly inadequate”.
- Budget 2008 a litmus test of govt's regard for NCMP
Those who are aware of the rudiments of how parliamentary democracy functions in this country would know that the budget for this year 2008...