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Bad taxes should go to boost investments: Survey

It said the tax/GDP ratio of the government must be obtained through a burden-sharing mechanism

Regulators should be given only 'limited powers': Survey

A long term, careful and systematic effort is required for undertaking institutional change

CAD likely to fall to 2.1% in FY15; to be fully financed: Govt

Says improvement in BoP helped in controlling rising CAD

India spends five times less than China in R&D: Survey

The pre-Budget document said India's innovation capacity is also lower than that of the other BRICS nations, except Russia

Will come out with simplified norms for Depository Receipts: Govt

The Centre has accepted the Sahoo panel report which reviewed the Depository Receipts schemes framed in 1993

Exit conditions for road constructing developers should be eased: Survey

As some of them are facing difficulty in raising loans for road building

GST implementation key to getting economy back on track

Once implemented, GST will help businesses focus more on what they are actually meant to do - business.

Policy design flaws affected infra investments: Eco Survey

Says problems in the sector resulted in a large number of stalled projects

Need clear signal to revive economic zones: Eco Survey

Finance Minister is expected to announce some steps to revamp these zones

Stable govt, global economic recovery can help Indian tourism

According to the Economic Survey 2013-14 tabled by FM, the sector can look forward to an average annual growth of 7.9% per year till 2023

Budget 2014: Big-bang disinvestments ahead?

Politician and academician Jay Narayan Vyas says Budget makers must approach this with a handful of salt because the record of disinvestment is not very promising

Iron ore mining ban records negative growth of 13%: Survey

Even as overall container traffic at the ports grew 5% to 980.49 million tonnes

Steel production grows at 7.9% in 5 years: Survey

India ranked as the fourth largest crude steel producer in the world during 2013

Market-linked pricing to boost domestic oil, gas: Survey

FM's economic report card said there will be 'under-investment' if India pays lesser price than the world rate

Growth of non-performing assets is a cause for concern: Survey

According to the survey tabled by FM, bad loans of public sector banks were at 4.4% in March 2014

Speed up pvt sector entry in coal mining, CIL rejig: Eco Survey

Says implementation of key infra projects for evacuation and movement of coal will be of critical importance

Cable digitisaton to increase tax collection manifold: Survey

Survey tabled by FM in Parliament shows that there is already two to three fold increase in entertainment tax collections

Do a reality check on FTAs: Survey

Says India should push towards regional and bilateral agreements that result in meaningful and result-oriented free trade agreements

Signs of revival in Indian aviation sector: Eco Survey

Emergence of new players such as AirAsia and Tata-SIA Airline has given boost to the sector

India lost competitiveness in key markets for stocks, rupee: Govt

Global market for the Indian rupee stood at $50.58 billion, while that for Nifty was at $51.8 billion