During the unlock phase,
demand-side measures have been announced in a calibrated manner. A public investment
programme centred around the National Infrastructure Pipeline is likely to accelerate th... Section: Speeches
by Ministry of Finance | On 29 Jan 2021 Speech of Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance on February 1, 2018 Section: General
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Feb 2018 The GST Council offers a model “technology” of cooperative federalism
to apply to many other policy reforms. Over the medium term, three areas of policy focus
stand out: Employment: finding good job... Section: General
by Arun Jaitley | On 29 Jan 2018 With Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
growth averaging 7.5 per cent between 2014-
15 and 2016-17, India can be rated as among
the best performing economies in the world on
this parameter. Section: General
by Arun Jaitley | On 29 Jan 2018 Data on the international exports of states (the first in India’s history) suggests a strong
correlation between export performance and states’ standard of living. India’s exports are unusual
in tha... Section: General
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Jan 2018 This chapter draws on cross-country experience
to study the pattern of investment and saving slowdowns as well as recoveries in order to obtain
policy lessons for India. One finding is that investme... Section: General
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Jan 2018 Long-run institutional development co-evolves with fiscal accountability involving, perhaps
requiring, a low and declining dependence on devolved resources and a high and rising share of
direct taxe... Section: General
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Jan 2018 The first order fact about the developing world today is that this is an era of unprecedented
prosperity. And that is true about India too which has been one of the most dynamic economic
performers... Section: General
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Jan 2018 The challenge of gender is long-standing, probably going back millennia, so all
stakeholders are collectively responsible for its resolution. India must confront the societal preference,
even meta-p... Section: General
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Jan 2018 The government’s efforts to make business and commerce easy have been widely acknowledged.
The next frontier on the ease of doing business is addressing pendency, delays and backlogs
in the appellat... Section: General
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Jan 2018 Sound public financial management has been one of the pillars of India’s macro-economic
stability in the last three years. Based on this firm footing, the Government, in partnership with
the States,... Section: General
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Jan 2018 During 2017-18 (till January), monetary policy remained steady with only one policy rate cut
in August. As the Y-o-Y effect of demonetisation wore off, the growth rate of both Currency in
Circulatio... Section: General
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Jan 2018 Several key measures and achievements in the industry and infrastructure sector have been
discussed in this Chapter. There has been considerable progress in Roads, Railways, Metro Rail,
Shipping, Ci... Section: General
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Jan 2018 The report says that science, technology, and innovation have instrumental and intrinsic value for society. Section: Reports
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Jan 2018 The report says that as per the UN National Accounts Statistics data, India’s ranking improved from 14th position in 2006 to 7th position in 2016, among the world’s 15 largest economies in terms of ov... Section: Reports
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Jan 2018 The report says that investment in human capital is a prerequisite for a healthy and productive population for nation building. Section: Reports
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Jan 2018 The Finance Minister of Assam , MrHimanta Biswa Sarma presented the Budget for Assam for financial year 2017-18 on February 7, 2017. Section: General
by Government of Assam | On 09 Feb 2017 Budget speech by Finance Minister of India, Mr.Arun Jaitley. Section: Speeches
by Arun Jaitley | On 01 Feb 2017 This year has been marked by several historic economic policy developments. On
the domestic side, a constitutional amendment paved the way for the long-awaited and transformational goods and services... Section: Speeches
by Arun Jaitley | On 31 Jan 2017 Budget speech by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. Section: Speeches
by Arun Jaitley | On 29 Feb 2016 This year’s Economic Survey comes at a time of unusual volatility in the
international economic environment. Markets have begun to swing on fears
that the global recovery may be faltering, while ris... Section: Speeches
by Arun Jaitley | On 26 Feb 2016 India’s growth story has largely remained positive on the strength of domestic absorption, and the country has registered a robust and steady pace of economic growth in 2015-16 as it did in 2014-15.... Section: Speeches
by Arun Jaitley | On 26 Feb 2016 This paper examines the performance of India’s services sector; the recent policy reforms in some important services sectors; issues and suggestions in services sector and in particular the four impor... Section: Working Papers
by H.A.C. Prasad | On 01 Feb 2016 The present Status Paper for 2015-16 is fifth in this series and reinforces the Government’s commitment to keep the level of public debt within sustainable limits and follow prudent debt management pr... Section: Reports
by Ministry of Finance GOI | On 01 Jan 2016 This document provides an overview the current state of the Indian economy; lists the issues related to investment and finance for various Indian industries; finally makes a list of suggestions for th... Section: Reports
by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry | On 01 Dec 2015 Budget speech of Finance Minister Section: Speeches
by Arun Jaitley | On 28 Feb 2015 State of the Economy - an overview
Public Finance
monetary management and financial intermediation
External Sector
Price, Agriculture and Food Management
Industrial, Corporate and Infrastructur... Section: Reports
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2015 This brief uses government reported data to analyse Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) performance. Section: Reports
by Accountability Initiative | On 17 Feb 2015 Government of India (GoI) will present its Budget for 2015-16 on February 28, 2015. After the new Government was sworn in during May 2014, it had a short period of six weeks before presenting the Revi... Section: Discussion Papers
by Aditi Nayar | On 01 Feb 2015 The “Outcome Budget” reflects the endeavour of the Government to convert “Outlays” into “Outcomes” by planning expenditure, fixing
appropriate targets and quantifying deliverables of each scheme. The... Section: Reports
by Ministry of Finance | On 01 Jan 2015 The paper examines the policies of the central as well as state governments with respect to the agricultural market, specifically in rice and wheat markets, analyses their shortcomings and argues for... Section: Working Papers
by Anandi Subramanian | On 01 Oct 2014 The paper examines the policies of the central as well as state governments with respect to the agricultural market, specifically in rice and wheat markets, analyses their shortcomings and argues for... Section: Working Papers
by Dr Anandi Subramanian | On 01 Oct 2014 Budget Speech 2014-15 by Arun Jaitley. Section: Speeches
by Arun Jaitley | On 10 Jul 2014 Budget speech by 2014-15. Section: Speeches
by P Chidambaram | On 17 Feb 2014 In this paper based on both desk research and selected sample survey of some districts in two states in India, an attempt has been made to see the efficacy and performance of the various central gover... Section: Working Papers
by H A C Prasad | On 01 Nov 2013 This report however, also takes a step forward in trying to draw a balance between “needs” and “performance”. Given that poor administration or weak institutions in a recipient state can fritter away... Section: Reports
by Ministry of Finance | On 02 Sep 2013 At the 16th session of Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the COP adopted
decisions in which it decided to establish a Green Climate F... Section: Working Papers
by Prodipto Ghosh | On 01 Sep 2012 What are major factors behind underdevelopment of corporate bond market in India? One of the major bottlenecks to the development of this market lies in relatively larger costs of financing which diss... Section: Working Papers
by Sanjay Banerji | On 30 Jun 2012 The objective of this paper is to place in the public domain various facets and dimensions of black money
and its complex relationship with the policy and administrative regime in the country. The pa... Section: Reports
by Ministry of Finance | On 21 May 2012 Th is study, which is supported by the ministries of fi nance and
the central banks of the BRICS, focuses on synergies and complementarities
between the economies, highlighting their role as growth
... Section: Reports
by Ministry of Finance | On 03 Apr 2012 Major credit rating agencies give out the sovereign credit rating of each nation as an absolute grade. How other nations fare over the period under consideration does not matter in a particular nation... Section: Reports
by Kaushik Basu | On 30 Mar 2012 Speech of Pranab Mukherjee Minister of Finance, India. [Budget Speech]. URL:[http://indiabudget.nic.in/ub2012-13/bs/bs.pdf]. Section: Speeches
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 16 Mar 2012 Economic Survey-Chapter1. [Economic Survey]. URL:[http://indiabudget.nic.in/survey.asp] Section: General
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 15 Mar 2012 A
bill
to regulate public procurement with the objectives of ensuring transparency, fair and equitable treatment of bidders, promoting competition, enhancing efficiency and economy and safeguarding... Section: General
by Ministry of Finance | On 01 Feb 2012 This essay examines the trajectory of India?s fiscal policy with a focus on historical trends, fiscal discipline frameworks, fiscal responses to the global financial crisis and subsequent return to a... Section: Working Papers
by Supriyo De | On 30 Jan 2012 The sovereign debt problems in the peripheral economies of the euro zone has started to pose a serious threat to the main economies of the Europe and perhaps to the future of the 'euro‘ itself. Such a... Section: Working Papers
by M R Anand | On 30 Jan 2012 The report reviews existing agricultural marketing system. It deals with improving efficiency and reducing transaction cost in Agricultural Marketing by strengthening the physical markets, encouraging... Section: Reports
by Planning Commission | On 01 Dec 2011 Inflation management is one of the hardest tasks an economic policymaker has to undertake. It appears, at first sight, that one can rely entirely on commonsense to carry out this task. But that will b... Section: Working Papers
by Kaushik Basu | On 05 Aug 2011 This paper gives information on global wheat market developments, price transmission and impacts on Indian domestic markets, as well as an assessment of public policies to manage domestic prices. This... Section: General
by Dipak Dasgupta | On 06 Jul 2011 This paper develops an index for measuring the economic power of governments viewed as entities in themselves. The basic idea is to encapsulate the economic representative power of a nation’s governme... Section: Working Papers
by Kaushik Basu | On 27 Apr 2011 Budget speech 2011-2012 by Pranab Mukherjee. Section: Speeches
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 28 Feb 2011 State of the Economy and prospects. URL:[http://www.indiabudget.nic.in/es2010-11/echap-01.pdf]. Section: General
by Ministry of Finance | On 25 Feb 2011 This paper illustrates that the legal structure of mortgage credit, in particular, its status in
terms of recourse in foreclosure, can lead not only to the familiar problem of adverse selection
... Section: Working Papers
by Kaushik Basu | On 01 Oct 2010 The simultaneous occurrence of high food inflation and large foodgrain stocks in our granaries
has been a matter of widespread concern in India. The aim of this paper is to understand the
fundamenta... Section: Working Papers
by Kaushik Basu | On 03 Sep 2010 Budget speech 2010-2011 by Pranab Mukherjee Section: Speeches
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 26 Feb 2010 Budget 2009-2010 by Pranab Mukherjee Section: Speeches
by Pranab Mukherjee | On 06 Jul 2009 The manufacturing sector in India is crucial for two main reasons: It has significant potential to provide modern
employment to a growing labour force, especially that of less skilled type and second... Section: Working Papers
by Arvind Virmani | On 09 Apr 2009 The Government has launched a reform-linked urban investment programme, JNNURM. The paper has analysed urban trends, projected population, service delivery, institutional arrangements, municipal finan... Section: Working Papers
by Chetan Vaidya | On 15 Mar 2009 The paper examines the genesis of Climate Change which has been referred to as the defining human development issue of our generation. Also studied is the impact of this problem in the global as well... Section: Working Papers
by H A C Prasad | On 01 Mar 2009 Key features of Budget presented by Shri Pranab Mukherjee Section: Speeches
by Ministry of Finance | On 16 Feb 2009 Establishing a debt management office would consolidate all debt management functions in a single agency, and be the catalyst for wider institutional reform and transparency about public debt. It is i... Section: General
by Ministry of Finance | On 31 Oct 2008 Budget presented by Finance Minister Section: Speeches
by P Chidambaram | On 29 Feb 2008 Economy Survey 2007-08.
website:http://indiabudget.nic.in Section: General
by Ministry of Finance | On 28 Feb 2008 It is proposed to amend the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Rules, 1957 (SCRR) to make provisions to implement the proposals as suggested at Para 11 in the paper. The comments on these proposals are... Section: Discussion Papers
by Ministry of Finance | On 01 Feb 2008 The paper lays out a consistent frame work for monetary management in the
context of excess capital inflows. There is an urgent need for developing
competitive, open and well regulated markets for (... Section: Working Papers
by Arvind Virmani | On 24 Nov 2007 Shows how the macro economic variables of Indian Economy are performing. Section: Speeches
by P Chidambaram | On 12 Nov 2007 The issue of farmers’ indebtedness becomes a matter of intense debate whenever the
agricultural sector faces distress. But, the root cause of the current crisis is not indebtedness
alone - indebtedn... Section: General
by Ministry of Finance | On 28 Jul 2007 This mid-year review reports developments in the economy in the first half of 2006-
07, with a particular focus on Central Government finances, outlining the performances
in the real sector, economi... Section: General
by Ministry of Finance | On 06 Feb 2007 A birds-eye-view of the issues for policy making in the services sector is given. This growth, employment and export oriented sector in India having a proven competitive advantage needs to be given it... Section: Working Papers
by H A C Prasad | On 18 Jan 2007 The bulk of the resources must go to the UPA Government’s eight flagship programmes: Sarva Siksha Abhiyan, Mid-day Meal Scheme, Rajiv Gandhi Drinking Water Mission, Total Sanitation Campaign, National... Section: General
by Ministry of Finance | On 28 Feb 2006 General Review Section: General
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Public Finance Section: General
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Monetary and Banking Developments Section: General
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Securities Markets Section: General
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Prices and Food Management Section: General
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 External Sector Section: General
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Industry Section: General
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Agriculture Section: General
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Infrastructure Section: General
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Social Sectors Section: General
by Ministry of Finance | On 27 Feb 2006 Report of the Expert Group Section: General
by Ministry of Finance | On 20 Jan 2006 |