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By Arun Maira |
Participative and well conducted multi-stakeholder processes increase social solidarity, which makes good societies.…
By Ajit Ranade |
The full impact of tax reform and attendant benefits are only possible when we implement both direct and indirect tax…
By Sudarshan Iyengar |
As Gandhiji’s grandson Gopalkrishna Gandhi has rightly remarked, Amit Shah’s remark that he was a clever bania was…
The response to the loan waivers has been along predictable lines. A loan, after all, is meant to be paid back and the…
By Vappala Balachandran |
It would be advisable for India to keep contingency plans to protect the interests of 6,50,000 Indian workers who…
By Ajit Ranade |
Setting of interest rates is a key component of the monetary policy. This responsibility is now with the Monetary…
The overleveraged corporate sector, lack of better alignment of administered interest rates on small savings with…
By Ajit Ranade |
Whatever be the reasons, the days of secure, lifetime employment with one employer are gone. Workers need to be in…
Empirical research and evidence suggest that the common base and rates across goods and services and similar rates…
The fall in headline inflation rate is not generalised. Mostly, the deceleration is food centric, caused by the…
By Ajit Ranade |
The agenda of financial inclusion was to bring the financial sector, savings, loans, insurance and investments to the…
By Ajit Ranade |
In fact, given India’s advantageous demography, the per capita burden of future taxes will be lower, since the…
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Electoral bonds open up yet another route to further the unholy nexus between corporate houses and political parties…
The nation has a new health policy after 14 years. The long gap itself indicates the priority, or the lack thereof,…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
My idea of The Hindvasi travels back to days I was a school kid and the paper came home but only on a Sunday, if memory…