Recently the government has decided to recapitalise the banks in the biggest such exercise ever, to the tune of about rupees one lakh fifty thousand crore. Predictably, there has been a lot of criticism and on various grounds. However, in the humble opinion of this...
Gender Budgeting in India First Published: November 23, 2015 | Last Updated:August 29, 2017 A gender budget is not a separate budget for women. Instead, the gender budgets are an attempt to assess government priorities as they are reflected through the budget and examine how they impact women and...
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Jomo Kwame Sundaram October 25, 2017 Various different, and sometimes contradictory lessons have been drawn from the 1997-1998 East Asian crises. Rapid or V-shaped recoveries and renewed growth in most developing countries in the new century also served to postpone the urgency of far-reaching reforms. The...
Jayati Ghosh October 26, 2017 The Modi government made its supposed determination to end corruption in India its signature theme. The massive damage done by demonetisation as well as the continuing chaos produced by the flawed introduction of the Goods and Services Tax have all been...
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury October 19, 2017 As the United Nations’ Second Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008-2017) comes to an end, more self-congratulation is likely. Claims of victory in the war against poverty will be backed by recently released poverty estimates from...
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*_The Hindu Editorial _* _President Donald Trump’s decision to name Federal Reserve Board Governor Jerome Powell as his pick to head the central bank signals that the businessman-turned-politician has plumped for continuity even as he ushers in change. For a President whose first nine months in...
*_The Hindu Editorial _* _Chennai’s date with a strong northeast monsoon ought to be a cause for all-round relief since the water fortunes of more than eight million residents of the metropolitan region depend on this weather system. Yet, the torrential rains in the meteorological sub-division,...
 A customs union is a type of free trade agreement (FTA) which involves the removal of tariff barriers between members, together with the acceptance of a common (unified) external tariff (CET) against non-members. Countries that export to other countries in the customs union only need to make a...