Page 7 - Ajay Shah

Need restructuring, not bankruptcy

Most stressed lenders should go into restructuring with the IBC being its bedrock

Equal treatment for women on inheritance

Unequal treatment of women on matters of inheritance is one brick in the wall that holds back engagement of women in the economy

Covid-19 may be 'act of god' but cleaning balance sheets is human task

Even though Covid-19 is an act of god, cleaning up balance sheets is central to Indian economic growth

Carrying the ideas of NEP to execution

The NEP makes progress in some elements, these need execution, the rest need improvement

Rethinking work, home and office

Working from home will reshape the labour market and the real estate market

More securitisation will help

There are only two big ideas for policy with securitisation: Originators should have skin and investors should have data

Will more foreign financing be needed?

It is important to remove the frictions, to connect the infinite capital of the global financial system with end-users in India

Beyond virus: Setting course for a V-shaped recovery with right decisions

It's time for thoughtful decisions through 2020 and 2021, where the desired outcome is one where private investment in 2025 is superior to the value seen in 2011 in real terms

Happy birthday, inflation targeting

The Ministry of Finance and the Reserve Bank of India signed a Monetary Policy Framework Agreement on February 20, 2015

Households after a natural disaster

The CMIE's CPHS data breaks the preconception of devastation and impoverished households being pushed to spending less

A step for the high growth strategy

Watch for the reward-to-risk ratio faced by private persons

Buy, not build, spacecraft

Isro needs to turn itself into a planning, contracting, and contract-monitoring organisation - like Nasa has done

Prioritise GDP, not tax revenues

The present tax policy is focused on increasing tax revenues, whereas it should try to obtain the same number of rupees of taxation, while enabling a higher GDP

Is China's loss India's gain?

To assess developments associated with the trade war, the data to focus on is the US import of goods from both the countries

Government debt abroad: Why & how

Nurturing a relationship with foreign investors is particularly important when it comes to the long-term objective of borrowing in times of a calamity

Continuity and follow-through

The main emphasis of the speech is on the expansion of existing programmes and the initiation of new programmes

Elections and stock prices

Macro-forecasting is the area where more effort is required

India: Agricultural trade powerhouse

What many of us have not noticed is that agriculture now yields greater exports than automobiles or garments plus textiles

The bird's eye view in finance

Micro prudential regulation of finance is essential

Better transition planning

The puzzle of 2019 lies in bringing enough knowledge and debate into the early weeks, to lay the foundations for an economic resurgence by 2022-23