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Now, the kitchen sink: Finance minister has kissed fiscal restraint goodbye

Lack of demand ails the economy. But that's not addressed, nor are declining exports; the bad old habit of 'loan melas' is back; and tax has been cut in a way that hurts states, writes T N Ninan

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All previous announcements having failed to do the trick, Nirmala Sitharaman has thrown the kitchen sink at the problem of slack economic growth — officially recorded for the last economic
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First Published: Sep 20 2019 | 6:25 PM IST

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