Columns: February 2023

Common citizen
Union Budget
Governance
Philanthropy
Lessons for India from soldier and farmer suicides in America
by Vappala Balachandran
25th February, 2023
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union Address, which is the... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Sustainability, Taxes, Global, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
Budget paves the way to resolve MSME dues
by Ajit Ranade
23rd February, 2023
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, which consists of members from across all... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Inequality, Sustainability, Taxes, Global, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
Leave States to fix their own fisc
by Ranjit K Pattnaik
20th February, 2023
India works with the principles of cooperative federalism under which expenditure made and taxes... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Inequality, Taxes, Union Budget, RBI, India politics, Indian economy
A case for action in the Adani saga
by Jagdish Rattanani
18th February, 2023
It has happened before. A business grows, builds connections, grabs political patronage and thinks... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Inequality, Taxes, Global, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy
Surge in capital expenditure, slide in attention to the poor
by Thomas Isaac
12th February, 2023
We may soon be the third largest economy in the world. But budgets like the one for 2023-24,... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Sustainability, Taxes, Global, Union Budget, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
RBI still in inflation-battle mode
by Himadri Bhattacharya
9th February, 2023
At the end of its three-day meeting on February 8 – its last for the current fiscal – the MPC of... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Sustainability, Taxes, Global, Union Budget, RBI, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
Some early lessons from the Adani stock crash
by Ajit Ranade
8th February, 2023
The sudden and steep crash in Adani group stocks took away some of the glow of the Union Budget... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Inequality, Taxes, Global, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy
A bold step was needed, the Budget missed it
by Ranjit K Pattnaik
6th February, 2023
The Union budget for 2023-24 came against a backdrop of economic recovery and optimism in the... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Taxes, Global, Union Budget, RBI, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
Union Budget balances growth and fiscal constraints
by Ajit Ranade
5th February, 2023
This is Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s fifth budget, and the last full plan be-fore the... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Taxes, Global, Union Budget, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
Economy can’t be good when governance is bad
by Jagdish Rattanani
5th February, 2023
The budget speech of Finance Minister Ms. Nirmala Sitharaman was the shortest by her own standards... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Inequality, Taxes, Global, Union Budget, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
Dark clouds as we head into Budget 2024
by Jagdish Rattanani
3rd February, 2023
The fourth and the last full-fledged Union Budget of the Narendra Modi government’s second term,... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Taxes, Global, Union Budget, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth
A Budget with a long-term view
by Himadri Bhattacharya
3rd February, 2023
This budget is a bold one that builds on the confidence of the government gained from the healthy... read more
Categories: Common citizen, Governance, Health, Sustainability, Taxes, Global, Union Budget, RBI, Jobs, India politics, Indian economy, Inclusive growth