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By Ajit Ranade |
India’s export of goods has been clocking a healthy performance for the past three months. It has been 34, 30 and 32…
By Ajit Ranade |
The official economic data for the first quarter will be published by the end of May. Last year from October onwards…
By Ajit Ranade |
Last October, India and South Africa proposed in the World Trade Organization that intellectual property rights of…
By Ajit Ranade |
Our daily infections are more than the cumulative total of the next eleven countries, including large countries like…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Reserve Bank of India meets every two months to decide on the main policy…
By Ajit Ranade |
The current national minimum wage of 176 rupees per day certainly needs to be revised upward. An increase in minimum…
By Ajit Ranade |
There seems to be a sudden epidemic of sorts, to legislate jobs for locals, in various States of India. Most recently…
By Ajit Ranade |
The third-quarter data on India's GDP showed that it has come out of the recession. The data shows a substantial…
By Ajit Ranade |
The very foundation of a robustly functioning democracy is a high degree of social capital and trust. Let us not…
By Ajit Ranade |
The government cannot spend even a rupee without the consent of parliament. hence its annual spending plan, called the…
By Ajit Ranade |
The annual Union Budget will be presented in less than two weeks. It is a constitu-tional requirement, since not even a…
By Ajit Ranade |
Disease, death, economic destruction, and yet resilience, fortitude and determination is how most people experienced…
By Ajit Ranade |
The macroeconomic winds are blowing favourably as we enter the New Year. The stock markets are at an all-time high.…
By Ajit Ranade |
The first quarter contraction was explained mostly by the severe lockdown ordered by the Central government, to tackle…
By Ajit Ranade |
Nokia was once the leader of the world in mobile phone handsets. Its largest manufacturing plant was located in…