In the Financial Express, Prakhar Misra and Sharmadha Srinivasan discuss the financial struggles that Indian states face as a result of the economic damage due to Covid-19. They recommend a set of actions to provide them with more resources....

In this New Indian Express article, Shankkar Aiyar examines the new budget and the need for efficient government expenditure to meet the goal of $5-trillion GDP for India.   ...

In this article published by Ideas for India, Niranjan Rajadhyaksha looks at how the budget seeks to address some of the stress points in the Indian economy with a lot riding on the sanctity of the budget numbers....

To keep up with the pressure of making headline fiscal deficit numbers look good, the government has increasingly resorted to off-budget financing for revenue as well as capital spending.

Finance Minister Piyush Goyal’s essay ticked all the boxes—farmers, organised and unorganised labour, women, pensioners and the taxpaying middle class.

The issues embedded in Maharashtra’s Economic Survey have a national resonance. It is verily a WhatsApp message for India.

Shankkar Aiyar, Visiting Senior Fellow, writes on the recently tabled, Budget 2018 in his New Indian Express article. He opines that the anger of the middle class is about the relief that was expected and which is not in the budget....

A budget of promises and missed economic opportunities

While the government might want economic growth to pick up before the state and general elections— a higher fiscal deficit might not be the solution.

Shankkar Ayar places the figure of Rs. 92,651 crore as the money that farmers lose annually to systemic sloth.