Three years of Modi government
Bikky Khosla | 23 May, 2017 |
| In what could be its last meeting before rollout of the indirect tax regime, the GST Council last week finalised rates of the new tax for most of the goods and services. |
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Jobless growth
Bikky Khosla | 16 May, 2017 |
| Jobless growth has, for quite some time now, been pointed out as a major challenge facing India. Our economy is powering ahead, but without creating enough jobs, and this widening gap clearly indicates that our policy makers' focus only on increasing the GDP growth rate is not enough. |
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Reform drive
Bikky Khosla | 09 May, 2017 |
| While the world economy has continued to face uncertainty, India is fast emerging as a global growth engine. Experts almost unanimously agree on this view, but -- there is a 'but' attached. |
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Farm debate
Bikky Khosla | 02 May, 2017 |
| Should agricultural income be taxed? Last week a Niti Aayog member argued that the government should tax farm income above a certain threshold. The view stirred up a hornet's nest among many. |
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Monsoon delight
Bikky Khosla | 25 Apr, 2017 |
| The India Meteorological Department last week came out with its projection of a 'near-normal' South-West monsoon this year. In its first long-range projection for 2017, the weather office said that total rainfall during the June-September period would be around 96 percent of the long-term average. |
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Exports recovery gathers steam
Bikky Khosla | 18 Apr, 2017 |
| The Indian export sector started the last financial year on a dismal note, with exports falling by 6 percent in the very first month, continuing a seventeenth consecutive month of decline, and now by the end of the year the sector has distinctly reversed the trend, growing for seven months in a row since September last year. |
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Rise of the Rupee
Bikky Khosla | 11 Apr, 2017 |
| The Indian Rupee is on a roller coaster ride. The currency appreciated by 4.5 percent versus the US dollar in the last quarter ending March. This quarterly rise, according to an estimate, is its best first quarter of any calendar year in the past 42 years. |
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FY18: The way ahead
Bikky Khosla | 04 Apr, 2017 |
| An eventful financial year has come to an end. In the global front, it was the Brexit referendum that came as the biggest shock of the year, taking not much time in fuelling talks of another global recession. |
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