The Centre is working on offering production linked incentives to up to five sectors to boost domestic manufacturing and help the economy revive from the ravages of the pandemic, economics affairs sec...

Economic affairs secretary Tarun Bajaj on Thursday  said the  monetisation of debt —  where the RBI buys bonds to finance the government’s spending — was not on the ag...

Chief economic adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian on Tuesday said the government was open to another round of fiscal stimulus but stressed on its timing as central support in itself may not push consum...

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman says the Modi govt is starting to see green shoots of recovery in a pandemic-battered economy in some high frequency data – and surprisingly suggested that it...

The Cassandras are having a field day. Anyone can rummage through a slag heap of gloomy macroeconomic numbers and build a seemingly irrefutable argument that the Indian economy is going through a wrin...

As speculated last month, the parallel run of Covid-19 and economic reopening could be non-linear and far more unpredictable than that in a full-lockdown scenario. Economic developments since then bea...

When Leopold Bloom, the Jewish protagonist of James Joyce’s Ulysses, is asked if he knew what a nation means: “A nation?” says Bloom, “A nation is the same people living i...

Industry body Ficci on Sunday said its Economic Outlook Survey has projected the country’s annual median GDP growth for 2020-21 at (-) 4.5 per cent. With the rapid spread of the Covid-19 pandem...

Economic recovery from the pandemic is bound to be different in different countries. It would depend upon the structure of the economy and the product mix that comprises the gross domestic product. Th...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has rolled out a red carpet to foreign investors by reiterating his government’s ability to carry out deep structural reforms and create an investor-friendly environ...