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Economy
GST
GST: For a fair share for the States
Ideal fiscal federalism in a market-driven economy calls for reassigning all the commodity taxes to States and effecting equalisation grants by the Un
R. Srinivasan
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S. Raja Sethu Durai
Reserve Bank of India
Bank of last resort
The RBI’s transfer of a huge surplus to the Union government does not augur well for it from an institutional standpoint and in the context of managem
V. Sridhar
Budget 2019
Budget 2019: Wooing speculative finance
Budget 2019 sends the clear message that the second Modi-led government plans to use every trick in the financial innovation book in its desperate sea
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Economic survey 2018-19
Economic Survey 2018-19: Vacuous exercise
The Economic Survey waxes eloquent on the standout economic problems of our times, without offering solutions or a road map to nudge the country on th
V. Sridhar
Finance
Shadow banking
As the crisis affecting India’s NBFC sector simmers, self-serving calls for a bailout rend the air ahead of the Budget.
Anupama Katakam
The Economy
Growth story in shreds
A former senior adviser to the government on economic matters delivers another blow to the credibility of India’s growth rate, but the methodology of
V. Sridhar
Public sector
Running down HAL
HAL, a public sector Navaratna, stares at a bleak future as its order book dwindles and its cash reserves are raided by the Central government.
Ravi Sharma
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‘Marx’s writing more relevant today than ever’
Interview with Wolfgang Streeck, German political economist.
Jipson John and Jitheesh P.M.
Road to ruin
The government’s late reaction to the IL&FS crisis is likely to achieve little, but the larger question is whether the company deserves to be saved.
V. Sridhar
‘Government policies killing the knitwear industry’
Interview with K. Kamaraj, president, Banian Workers Union.
R.K. Radhakrishnan
Looming crisis
The knitwear industry in Tiruppur has not recovered from the double whammy of demonetisation and GST implementation. With a stack of government polic
R.K. Radhakrishnan
Shotgun marriage
The coerced takeover of the publicly owned IDBI Bank by LIC, the country’s largest insurer, will neither protect the interests of the beleaguered bank
V. Sridhar
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