Revisiting the MCA-21-based estimates of the size of the private corporate sector in the rebased National Accounts Statistics, it is argued that the use of a single blow-up factor for non-government...
Economic Notes
An analysis of bank lending rates suggests that reducing the lending rate, while important, may not be as critical to reviving investment as it is made out to be. The three interest rate regimes...
The Forward Markets Commission and Securities Exchange Board of India merger may provide a relatively strong regulator, but the move needs to be supplemented with better information and warehouse...
The new series of national accounts statistics raises the estimates of saving and investment, but it also reconfi rms the trend of a decline in domestic saving and capital formation in recent years...
An analysis of the new 2011-12 series of National Accounts Statistics to understand the trends of GDP growth and the sector-wise break-up. Data up to the advance estimates for 2014-15 are explored...
The new series of national accounts released by the Central Statistics Office has made a number of conceptual changes and has tapped new sources of data. This note presents a discussion of the key...
Revisiting an old debate about terms of trade of agriculture vis-à-vis other sectors in the Indian economy, it is argued that the ToT of agriculture has remained favourable for a large part of the...
An analysis of corporate sector earnings and spending reveals that since liberalisation in the early 1990s, Indian companies have become increasingly dependent on foreign inputs, while foreign...
The Reserve Bank of India's latest accounts indicate that the structure of earnings has clearly shifted to domestic sources, particularly from assets. Further, the RBI has made large transfers to the...
Analysing trends in bank deposits between 2008 and 2012, this note argues that bank depositors by and large seemed to prefer to move their money to nationalised banks. Just like any investor,...
The provisional results of the Sixth Economic Census (2013) of establishments in the non-agricultural sector suggest that this is not a census count. A comparison with the National Sample Survey...
This article examines trends in corporate profi tability based on data contained in the Reserve Bank of India's studies. It observes that the profit margin and real return on capital employed came...
Even as measures to modernise and revitalise the financial sector need to be taken, the government should not tamper with the vigilance exercised by the Reserve Bank of India and the Securities and...
The latest Annual Survey of Industries report, released for 2011-12, shows a high growth in the value of output, gross value added as well as employment generation. The ASI data suggests that over...
