A Revolutionary Budget – but Challenging Times Ahead
Budget 2021-22[i] presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 1 February 2021 in Parliament was perhaps the most revolutionary budget presen...
THE INDIAN RESURGENCE AS BHARAT!
The World Economic Order is witnessing a major disruption as the Digital Age transforms economies and the workplace at a pace most players are struggling to cope with, leaving behind a graveyard of...
Re-awakening the “Sunahri Chidiya”: A Manifesto For Achieving India’s Economic Potential
India is at a “chauraha”. A confluence of events makes the present a determining moment for India’s economy. Like any “chauraha,” there is “static” from bystanders offering guidance—sometimes of qu...
The Future of the Indian MSME and the Manufacturing Sector
Introduction
India has the second largest number of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSME) in the world, second only to China, and these contribute to about 30 percent of t...
Union Budget 2021-22: A Step Towards Self Reliance & Development
Since India gained independence in 1947, the country has been making great strides towards achieving economic autonomy, and during the course of more than 70 years, the country has been able to she...
INDIA’S MARITIME ECONOMY: DRIVING INDIA’S GROWTH
To me the Blue Wheel or Chakra in our national flag represents the potential of the Blue Revolution or the Ocean Economy. That is how central the ocean economy is to us.” - Prime Minis...
Can Agriculture Foster Economic Development?
Introduction
All countries face multiple policy choices in their early years of development. One of the first policy choices they face is in resource allocation—should resources...
India’s Economy and Union Budget 2021: An Interview with Shri Sanjeev Sanyal, Principal Economic Adviser, Ministry of Finance, Government of India
Praket Arya: We find ourselves in truly unique circumstances, facing a once in a century pandemic and the worst contraction in the economy since 1952. If I asked you to describe th...