Best of BS Opinion: Industrial era GDP measures, gold loans glitter & more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Methods of measuring GDP do not take into account the price of short-changing people. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up
 

Ajit Balakrishnan speaks of getting GDP to measure India’s data economy
 

Fleecing of floating-rate borrowers continues, says Debashis Basu
 

Loan against gold is the best route for monetising the yellow metal, and the Covid pandemic is acting as a catalyst for it, writes Tamal Bandyopadhyay

 

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Demonetisation has helped reduce black money, increase tax compliance and formalisation and given a boost to transparency

PM Narendra Modi on the fourth anniversary of demonetisation