प्रस्तावनाप्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी की अध्यक्षता में आर्थिक मामलों की मंत्रिमंडल समिति ने विश्व बैंक समर्थित 6,655 करोड़ रूपये की दो नई योजनाओं –आजीविका संवर्द्धन के लिए दक्षता हासिल करने और ज्ञान बढ़ाने (संकल्प) तथा औद्योगिक मूल्य संवर्द्धन हेतु दक्षता सुदृढ़ीकरण (स्ट्राइव)योजनाओं को मंजूरी प्रदान कर...
• चर्चा में क्यों? अमेरिकी अर्थशास्त्री रिचर्ड थेलर को इस बार का नोबेल पुस्कार मिलना चर्चा का विषय रहा है। रिचर्ड थेलर के जिस योगदान को इस पुरस्कार ने सम्मानित किया है वह आज के दौर में खासतौर पर महत्त्वपूर्ण है। महत्त्वपूर्ण इसलिये क्योंकि यह अर्थशास्त्र के...
अभी हाल तक अधिकांश नीति निर्माता इस बात से सहमत नजर आ रहे थे कि सरकारी बैंकों को बहुत अधिक वृद्घि की आवश्यकता नहीं है। उनकी दलील थी कि बैंकिंग क्षेत्र में प्रचुर क्षमता मौजूद थी। बॉन्ड बाजार का विस्तार हो रहा था, गैर बैंकिंग...
*🇮🇳India Falls 3 Places in Latest 🌐Global Hunger Index* With more than a fifth (21%) of its children wasted–low weight for height–India ranks 100 of 119 countries in the 2017 Global Hunger Index (GHI), down three places from 97 last year. Only in three other countries–Djibouti,...
Prabhat Patnaik September 26, 2017 The BJP government, like a bull in a China shop, is wrecking the economy. A neo-liberal regime, even at the best of times, i.e. even when the economy is booming, brings misery to the vast mass of the working people by...
*_The Hindu Editorial _* _Economics as a discipline is not infrequently accused of being fairly removed from reality. The activities of societies, countries, corporations and the global macroeconomy itself are meant to fit certain models, at the heart of which are rational agents maximising their utility...
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury September 27, 2017 The Trump administration’s promise to increase infrastructure spending should break the straightjacket the Republicans imposed on the Obama administration after capturing the US Congress in 2010. However, in proportionate terms, it falls far short of Roosevelt’s New...
C. P. Chandrasekhar September 29, 2017 A slew of numbers released recently point to rather peculiar and contrary trends in India’s balance of payments. Exports have revived but the trade and current account deficits widen, pointing to an excess of foreign exchange expenditure relative to earnings....
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday pared its growth forecast for India by half a percentage point to 6.7% for 2017, blaming the lingering disruptions caused by demonetisation of high-value currencies last year and the rollout of the Goods and Services Tax (GST). However,...
When India announced demonetisation last November, Nobel Prize winner Richard Thaler described it as a “policy I have long supported” but also remarked “damn” when it was brought to his notice that the government was introducing ₹2,000 currency notes. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences today...