-The Indian Express India bounced back from 2008 crisis thanks to stimulus packages, but faltered by letting these continue. And it still has a long way to go in ensuring greater coordination between govt and financial regulators. India did not have a rulebook to refer to a decade ago when it was hit by a seismic shock with its epicentre some 12,500 km away. In the initial days post the Lehman collapse...
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Oil marketing companies again hike petrol, diesel prices
-The Hindu The prices of petrol and diesel touched a new high on Sunday with Mumbai paying the maximum among the four metros. Mumbai: State owned oil marketing companies (OMCs) have again increased the price of sensitive petroleum products like petrol and diesel in the country on Sunday. The prices of petrol and diesel touched a new high on Sunday with Mumbai paying the maximum among the four metros. While petrol costs ? 89.29...
More »CMIE's Mahesh Vyas says 3.5 million jobs lost due to demonetisation
-The Indian Express The impact on the labour force was even much more significant. While the job losses could have been at least 3.5 million, the reduction in the labour force was to the tune of 15 million. New Delhi: Demonetisation may have caused job losses of at least 3.5 million and the damaging impact on labour force was even starker, Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy.(CMIE) chief executive Mahesh Vyas said...
More »Rice, wheat producing countries should be concerned about India's trade-distorting policy: US
-PTI The US has alleged that India is providing massive subsidies to its farmers producing rice and wheat and said that other countries need to be concerned about New Delhi's "trade distorting policy". Chief Agricultural Negotiator Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) Gregory Doud made the comments during a Congressional hearing Thursday. "Every rice- or wheat-producing country around the world should be concerned about the trade effects of India's trade distorting domestic...
More »Destructive? Yes. Creative? Ahem -Devadeep Purohit
-The Telegraph BJP invokes Schumpeter, economists bewildered Calcutta: Economics lore has it that Joseph Schumpeter had set three goals in life: to be the world's greatest economist, Austria's greatest horseman and Vienna's greatest lover. The Austrian-American economist apparently accomplished two of the three missions but never said which two, other than offering a clue by hinting there were too many fine horsemen in Austria. A fourth goal - unrecorded by the late economist...
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