-The Economic Times Change in fuel price indeed has far reaching effects as its impact ranges from daily budget to macroeconomics like inflation numbers. The rise in petrol and diesel prices has been making news for the last week or so. Change in fuel price indeed has far reaching effects as its impact ranges from daily budget to macroeconomics like inflation numbers. Here is a roundup of what is happening and why...
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Look at the facts of demonetisation, not politics -Kaushik Basu
-The Indian Express Six months later, it is clear that it achieved next to nothing, and inflicted a large cost on the poor and the informal sector. It was six months ago, on November 8, that India hit the headlines the world over, with its sudden demonetisation. It was announced in the evening that, at the stroke of the midnight hour, all bank notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 would cease...
More »Pricier food, fuel push WPI inflation to 39-month high -Surabhi
-The Hindu Retail inflation too inches up in February New Delhi: Retail and farm gate prices surged in February as food articles and fuel products became more expensive. Data released on Tuesday revealed that consumer price index (CPI) based inflation rose to a four-month high of 3.65 per cent in February this year as against 3.17 per cent in January. It was, however, much higher at 5.26 per cent in February last year. Meanwhile,...
More »0.5% tragedy and DeMo confession
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The Demonetisation Demon will gouge India's economic growth in 2016-17 by at least half a percentage point, chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian told reporters after presenting the Economic Survey a day before the budget. Subramanian, who was voicing his views for the first time on the deeply polarising subject of demonetisation, rejected the dire prophecies of other Oracles, including his former employer, the International Monetary Fund, that projected...
More »Agriculture economics: The next big farm solution - cutting production costs -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express In a scenario of depressed crop prices, a unique PPP model in milk shows the way out. Coimbatore: For roughly a decade from 2004-05 to 2013-14, Indian farmers experienced rising incomes from higher crop prices year after year — something they pretty much took for granted. That party ended with the crash in global commodity prices, hitting agricultural exports hard and translating into lower farm-gate realisations for most crops. But...
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