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| 'Do fiscal deficits hurt economic growth?' | 08-JUL-09 |
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| It boils down to whether greater government spending makes up for lower private consumption or whether, through higher interest rates or inflation, it hurts it. |
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| Shyam Ponappa: A rational spectrum allocation policy | 02-JUL-09 |
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| All nations are equally endowed with radio waves, or ‘spectrum’. But some do better than others at using this resource. Currently, by trying to optimise spectrum use measured by communications-traffic-per-unit-of-spectrum, our benefits are suboptimal. India’s misplaced emphasis on this kind of spectrum efficiency results in economic inefficiency. |
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| Rangarajan cautions on fiscal deficits | 19-JAN-07 |
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| Fiscal consolidation is one of the critical challenges on the way forward to sustaining high rate of growth, and the negative consequences of excessive fiscal deficits are a standard fare of textbook |
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| So little wiggle room | 06-JAN-05 |
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| While Indias fiscal deficits have remained stubbornly high, the problem is not runaway expenditure. After all, the central governments total spending has remained more or less at a constant in |
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| M Govinda Rao: Forex and infrastructure | 16-NOV-04 |
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| The last few days have seen considerable discussion and debate on the feasibility and desirability of utilising the vast and increasing foreign exchange reserves for augmenting the much- needed |
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| The dollar: Interest and exchange rates | 14-JUN-04 |
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| Alan Greenspan was nominated last month for his 4th term as chairman of the US Federal Reserve. He is already 78 and should he manage to complete the next term, he would have occupied the seat for 24 |
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