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Does budget 2020 provide material support for the ongoing health reforms?
Feb 07, 2020

Does budget 2020 provide material support for the ongoing health reforms?

Perhaps for the first time in the history of India’s health policymaking, multiple agencies are moving in a closely coordinated manner.

GoI’s conflicting goals — electricity for all, renewable energy targets and a ₹100 trillion infrastructure pipeline
Feb 04, 2020

GoI’s conflicting goals — electricity for all, renewable energy targets and a ₹100 trillion infrastructure pipeline

Lopsided allocation of funds could easily lead to the government missing its target for renewable energy capacity, with huge costs to the environment.

Budget 2020: Yet another wasted opportunity
Feb 01, 2020

Budget 2020: Yet another wasted opportunity

What an economy generally needs from the government is to help catalyse entrepreneurial ideas and turn them into wealth, if not drive animal spirits.

Budget 2019: Mobilising investment by open capital account and constrained fiscal policy a risky gamble
Jul 12, 2019

Budget 2019: Mobilising investment by open capital account and constrained fiscal policy a risky gamble

The attempt to woo FIIs and FPIs may look like an innovative step to mobilise investment from abroad, yet this is a gamble which may or may not pay of

Budget 2019: A confused path to $5 trillion dream?
Jul 09, 2019

Budget 2019: A confused path to $5 trillion dream?

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman seemed to be the chief protagonist of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s dream of India becoming a $5 trillion econo

बजट 2019-20: इस बार बजट से पूरे होंगे ‘तेरे-मेरे सपने’
Jul 06, 2019

बजट 2019-20: इस बार बजट से पूरे होंगे ‘तेरे-मेरे सपने’

निर्मला सीतारमण ने अपने पहले बजट में इकोनॉमी को 2025 तक 5 लाख�

Budget of small things that contributes to the government’s larger $5 trillion narrative
Jul 05, 2019

Budget of small things that contributes to the government’s larger $5 trillion narrative

Sitharaman’s Budget seeks to inject efficiencies into the regulatory system.

A special task for India’s first full-time woman FM
Jul 04, 2019

A special task for India’s first full-time woman FM

In the coming budget, concrete ideas of increasing women’s participation in the workforce should be included. There has to be an increased allocatio

Budget 2019: Sitharaman should embrace inflation to deliver growth
Jul 02, 2019

Budget 2019: Sitharaman should embrace inflation to deliver growth

Since data has changed, there are only three words that should define Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget 2019 — growth, growth, growth.

बजट में निर्मला सीतारमण ये 8 काम कर दें तो कमाल हो जाएगा
Jun 04, 2019

बजट में निर्मला सीतारमण ये 8 काम कर दें तो कमाल हो जाएगा

वित्तमंत्री को तीन तरह के काम करने हैं. पहले तो उन्हें 2019 क�

Indian economy: All is not well
Feb 25, 2019

Indian economy: All is not well

Agriculture remains stressed as food inflation remains low. India Inc. is not doing well either.

What the defence budget 2019 says about the Indian Army
Feb 15, 2019

What the defence budget 2019 says about the Indian Army

The Indian army is a manpower-intensive military. With the second largest military in terms of personnel, the Indian armed forces have always faced a

Creating jobs for the youth
Feb 15, 2019

Creating jobs for the youth

The public sector is a big employer of youth, but its share as a job provider has been shrinking despite the fact that government jobs are the preferr

The PM-Kisan Scheme: Moving in the wrong direction
Feb 11, 2019

The PM-Kisan Scheme: Moving in the wrong direction

Upon close scrutiny of the scheme, an obvious question comes to the forefront: was the scheme a governance measure or political manipulation?

अंतरिम बजट: आर्थिक सुस्‍ती की राजनीतिक अर्थव्यवस्था
Feb 04, 2019

अंतरिम बजट: आर्थिक सुस्‍ती की राजनीतिक अर्थव्यवस्था

भारत की राजनीतिक अर्थव्यवस्था की पहेली या समस्‍या यह है �

बजट 2019: तीन विलक्षण धाराओं की त्रिमूर्ति
Feb 04, 2019

बजट 2019: तीन विलक्षण धाराओं की त्रिमूर्ति

यह एक ऐसा बजट है जिसमें राजनीति इसके अर्थशास्त्र पर हावी �

बजट 2019: स्मार्ट राजनीति, स्मार्ट अर्थशास्त्र
Feb 04, 2019

बजट 2019: स्मार्ट राजनीति, स्मार्ट अर्थशास्त्र

इस बजट में उल्‍लेख किए गए अहम प्रस्तावों के जरिए मुख्य रू�

ORF takes on the budget
Feb 02, 2019

ORF takes on the budget

How does the interim budget impact some of the most critical facets of the Indian economy?

ORF takes on the budget
Feb 02, 2019

ORF takes on the budget

How does the interim budget impact some of the most critical facets of the Indian economy?

अंतरिम बजट: किसान-मध्‍य वर्ग को संतुष्‍ट करने की कोशिश, लेकिन कहां से आयेगा पैसा?
Feb 02, 2019

अंतरिम बजट: किसान-मध्‍य वर्ग को संतुष्‍ट करने की कोशिश, लेकिन कहां से आयेगा पैसा?

क्या यह सरकार संसाधन जुटाने के असंभव गणित को अगली सरकार क�

Interim Budget: The political economy of stagnation
Feb 01, 2019

Interim Budget: The political economy of stagnation

The puzzle of India’s political economy is to reconcile the expectations of “Great Society” welfare with stagnating middle-income productivity.

Budget 2019: A trimurti of troikas
Feb 01, 2019

Budget 2019: A trimurti of troikas

It is a budget whose politics overrides its economics, whose economics plays with politics, and whose pitch is sharply focused on Elections 2019.

Budget 2019: A trimurti of troikas
Feb 01, 2019

Budget 2019: A trimurti of troikas

It is a budget whose politics overrides its economics, whose economics plays with politics, and whose pitch is sharply focused on Elections 2019.

Budget 2019: Smart politics, smart economics
Feb 01, 2019

Budget 2019: Smart politics, smart economics

Key proposals unveiled in this budget are primarily aimed at rural communities and the urban middle classes.

Should India embrace Universal Basic Income scheme?
Jan 31, 2019

Should India embrace Universal Basic Income scheme?

While the jury is yet to be out globally on the UBI, it has many takers in India.

Mumbai: The rich, bad boy?
Oct 01, 2018

Mumbai: The rich, bad boy?

If functions and finances of the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) are to be matched, the MCGM’s annual budget should be in the region

70 Policies — The 93.5 Percent Marginal Rate of Taxation, 1971
Aug 07, 2018

70 Policies — The 93.5 Percent Marginal Rate of Taxation, 1971

The intellectual framework for high taxes was set by Finance Minister C.D. Deshmukh in his 27 February 1953 Union Budget speech, where he set up the T

China’s military rise and the Indian challenge
Apr 19, 2018

China’s military rise and the Indian challenge

Unlike other great powers of the past New Delhi has encountered, China impinges directly on India’s geopolitical landscape in multiple ways. The ris

बजट 2018: दूसरों की कीमत पर चुनिंदा शिक्षण संस्थानों का कल्याण
Feb 14, 2018

बजट 2018: दूसरों की कीमत पर चुनिंदा शिक्षण संस्थानों का कल्याण

यह तथ्य बहुत व्याकुल करने वाला है कि सरकार ने सभी प्रमुख य

बजट 2018: दूसरों की कीमत पर चुनिंदा शिक्षण संस्थानों का कल्याण
Feb 14, 2018

बजट 2018: दूसरों की कीमत पर चुनिंदा शिक्षण संस्थानों का कल्याण

यह तथ्य बहुत व्याकुल करने वाला है कि सरकार ने सभी प्रमुख य

बजट 2018: पूरा ध्यान ग्रामीण गरीबों पर
Feb 14, 2018

बजट 2018: पूरा ध्यान ग्रामीण गरीबों पर

एमएसपी को बढ़ा देने भर से किसानों को मदद नहीं मिलेगी, क्यो

Budget 2018

Jan 01, 1970
Budget for university education — More for less at the cost of more
Feb 09, 2018

Budget for university education — More for less at the cost of more

It is quite perplexing that the government has secured all the premium schemes only for the top of the pyramid institutes that constitute only about 2

Budget 2018 consolidates past policies and invests in future politics
Feb 01, 2018

Budget 2018 consolidates past policies and invests in future politics

The days of Budgets being policy statements and media events are over. Budget 2018 does what it is supposed to: balance the books — the fiscal defic

10 themes that will dominate headlines in 2018
Jan 02, 2018

10 themes that will dominate headlines in 2018

If 2017 saw the rise of the ‘spin’ — any event or news was butchered and battered until it yielded a pre-determined narrative — 2018 will see

Why have we failed to create institutes of excellence, like in West?
Dec 11, 2017

Why have we failed to create institutes of excellence, like in West?

There is reluctance in offering absolute autonomy to institutes in something as basic as issuing degrees. When it comes to financial autonomy, it is a