-The Indian Express The emerging consensus within India Inc. on the need for a government-led stimulus notwithstanding, the Centre has limited fiscal space given the lower tax collections. The Budget was a MISsed opportunity in terms of signalling reforms New Delhi: India Inc’s clamour for a stimulus to restart the investment cycle points to a near unanimous view within the industry — that government has to do the heavy lifting first...

-BusinessToday.in According to former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, the slowdown in the economy "very worrisome", and he called for pressing reforms to boost the economy and energise the private sector to invest as well as a fresh look at the way GDP is being calculated Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has said the economic slowdown in India is "very worrisome" and has called for a fresh look at the way GDP is...

-TheWire.in There is little doubt that the smaller stakeholders and businesses within India's informal economy have the most to lose, and yet their voices are not being heard. “Concluding RCEP [Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership] this year is the region’s ‘collective interest and highest priority’”, trade ministers of the proposed pact are reported to have announced after their meeting in China in early August 2019. India was interestingly not represented by trade minister Piyush...

-News18.com Hours after Narendra Modi tweeted about the issue of population explosion, activists from the southern region highlighted the huge MISmatch in population growth between the north and the south. Bengaluru/ Trivandrum: India's southern states are quite perturbed by the call for a national ‘scheme’ to control population explosion, an idea expressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his Independence Day speech last week. Their concern is, if there are any...

-The Financial Express The prime minister, in his Independence Day speech, flagged “population explosion” as a problem and talked of the need to counter it. It is surprising that the government has MISsed the message on the declining trend in fertility in the country and is gearing up to fight yesterday’s problem. The proponents of population regulation raise the bogey of the absolute population level already being too high and the...