-The Telegraph Recovery will stumble, inflation will rise, rupee could weaken further, say economists New Delhi: India abstained on the US-sponsored UN Security Council “deploring” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But we definitely won’t be able to stay on the sidelines when it comes to facing the economic consequences of the war, the most serious conflict in Europe since the second world war. India’s not a part of organisations like Nato whose members like...
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Retail Inflation at 6.01% in January, Hits 7-Month High -Aparna Deb
-News18.com The RBI has been mandated by the government to keep retail inflation at 4 per cent with a margin of 2 per cent on either side India’s retail inflation increased to 6.01 per cent in the month of January, driven by higher consumer goods and telecom prices along with a comparatively low rate a year ago, data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation on Monday indicated. Inflation, as...
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-Livemint.com Rural economy has to deal with declining incomes and rising cost of essentials The general consensus on the state of the Indian economy can be summarized as follows: The economy has been in a deep crisis even before the pandemic-led disruptions. Second, the crisis is not a result of supply constraints but is a result of demand deficiency, particularly in the rural economy. Recent evidence suggests that the impact of the slowdown...
More »Union Budget 2022: The Concerns and Numbers Don’t Square Up -Arun Kumar
-TheWire.in Much was expected from the Union Budget 2022 which has come at a time when the Indian economy is facing an economic turmoil due to the coronavirus pandemic and battling widespread unemployment and inflation. High hopes were pinned on this year’s budget as the country saw young people protesting for Railway jobs, farmers protesting for the government to address their loss of incomes, micro-sector producers as they faced closures and PSU...
More »Climate and food price rise: Extreme weather events triggering unprecedented food inflation -Richard Mahapatra
-Down to Earth Unfavourable, unreliable weather hurt agriculture, in turn pushing food prices our of reach across the world At 14.23 per cent, India’s wholesale inflation rate in November 2021 was the highest in three decades. It did reduce marginally to 13.56 per cent the next month, according to government data released January 14, 2022. But even that is bad news for the Centre ahead of Assembly elections in five states, including...
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