-The Hindu The former RBI Governor says even if India became a $5 trillion economy by 2025, it would retain the same classification as its population would have touched 1.4 billion If the government wanted the economy to grow fast then it should act on savings and Investment Rates, said C. Rangarajan, former governor of Reserve Bank of India. He was speaking at the inauguration of a two-day international conference on contemporary practices...
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Adopt a green growth strategy to boost the sluggish automobile sector
Among the measures announced by the Union Finance & Corporate Affairs Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman on 23rd August, 2019 to arrest economic downturn, the following are noteworthy: * Allow Bharat Stage IV (BS-IV) vehicles (which are purchased till 31st March, 2020) to remain operational for the entire period of registration; * Government shall lift the ban on purchase of new vehicles for replacing all old vehicles by its various departments; *...
More »Slowdown Blues: Govt needs to raise income levels of working population to boost growth -Prasanna Mohanty
-Business Today Now that a decline in private consumption is pulling down economic growth, the focus needs to shift to improving wages and other measures to spur demand and savings, which does not seem to be happening now New Delhi: That the Indian economy is slipping into a recession is quiet apparent. The real GDP growth has gone down from a peak of 8.2% in 2016-17 to 6.8% in 2018-19, with the...
More »Rediscovering development banks -R Nagaraj
-The Hindu The agenda to set up a development bank is a welcome initiative, but questions remain on its design Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s press conference on August 23, announcing a slew of measures to boost the economy and financial market sentiments, had an interesting idea. It was about setting up a development bank. Ms. Sitharaman said: “In order to improve access to long-term finance, it is proposed to establish an organisation to...
More »Economic growth problem: It's time now for Modi-II to undo the damage -TN Ninan
-Business Standard Aiming for unachievable growth rates would compound past errors. The economy has to lower its sights, and do some hard thinking about how to come out of the present hole, writes T N Ninan There is a general sense that the economic growth problem came upon us suddenly in the last few months. In some ways, it did — for example, through the continuing fallout of the collapse 11 months...
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