The last budget of the Modi government comes against the backdrop of severe agrarian and rural distress. It is also the last opportunity to undo the damage caused to the rural economy by this...
Budget 2018–19
Despite it being the government’s last full budget before the general elections in 2019, the finance minister, constrained by his self-imposed fiscal deficit targets, settled for rhetoric and...
A scrutiny of the Indian economy and the state of public finances reveals that while there are a few areas of improvement under the current government, the economy remains fragile and, worryingly,...
The Union Budget 2018–19 was presented against the background of a slippage in the fiscal deficit levels. The government has reiterated its commitment towards fiscal consolidation. In this context,...
The structural inability to control revenue deficits needs different solutions from the usual argument that the utilisation of government expenditure is inefficient and that the government should...
