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How's the economy really doing? -TCA Sharad Raghavan

-The Hindu There are multiple ways to arrive at an answer, but each metric points in a different direction. If someone asks you how the Indian economy is doing, how would you answer? Would you say that the Gross Domestic Product and Gross Value Added (GVA) are both above 7 per cent, and so the economy is growing strongly? Or would you say that the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) has contracted for two straight...

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No feel for the pulse -Ashok Gulati & Siraj Hussain

-The Indian Express The government has failed to provide the right incentives to farmers India’s quest for self-sufficiency in pulses goes back, at least, to 1990-1991, when pulses were incorporated in the technology mission on oilseeds. In 1992, and 1995-1996, oil palm and maize were added to the mission, which was re-christened the Integrated Scheme on Oilseeds, Pulses, Oil palm and Maize (ISOPOM). In 2007, ISOPOM’s pulses component was merged with...

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Kharif foodgrain harvest to break past records, show first advance estimates -Sayantan Bera

-Livemint.com India’s Kharif foodgrain production is estimated at 135 million tonnes in 2016-17, 9% higher than the year before New Delhi: Boosted by a normal monsoon, India’s rain-fed Kharif harvest will be the highest ever in history, show first advance estimates of crop production released by the agriculture ministry on Thursday. India’s Kharif foodgrain production is estimated at 135 million tonnes in 2016-17, 9% higher than the year before, when a crippling drought...

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Pulses send WPI racing to 2-year high

-The Hindu Business Line Hits 3.74% in August as potato, manufactured items get pricier New Delhi: wholesale price inflation rose to a two-year high of 3.74 per cent in August pushed up by expensive pulses and potatoes as well as a sudden spike in prices of manufactured items. Wholesale price index (WPI) based inflation was 3.55 per cent in July and had contracted by 5.06 per cent in August last year. Previously, WPI inflation...

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WPI inflation rises to 3.74% in August despite fall in food inflation -Indivjal Dhasmana

-Business Standard This was the fifth straight month of WPI inflation after continued deflation for over a year Unlike deceleration in its consumer price index (CPI) counterpart, the Wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation rose to 3.74 per cent in August from 3.55 per cent in July. However, even then it remained lower than retail price index-based inflation at 5.05 per cent that had declined from 6.07 per cent in July. This was the...

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