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India benefits from reform and a bit of luck: James Saft
The challenge for the Indian economy is to get through Fed's rate hike later this year without faltering
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First financial SEZ awaits govt push
The international financial services centre, to be located in the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City, could house major financial institutions catering to global markets. Business Standard tracks
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Firms grow wary of govt's airport plan
With four more airports set to be privatised, the private sector stands to control 74 per cent of all passenger traffic
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Just Luck: Up To 20% Drop In Subsidies Likely
Subsidies for fuel, fertiliser and food have been a recurring nightmare for Indian finance ministers trying to present a balanced budget
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Modi bets on GM crops for second green revolution
Allowing GM crops is critical to Modi's goal of boosting dismal farm productivity in India, where urbanisation is devouring arable land
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FICCI submits suggestions to tackle black money
Incentivise cashless transactions, tax agricultural income, says the industry body
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Govt explores new avenues to fund infrastructure growth
Prabhu bats for 'bold measure' focussing on instruments rather than institutions
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Focus on infrastructure as the harbinger of growth: Suresh Prabhu
Nowhere in the world is the private sector putting money in infrastructure for public use
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Govt eyes private investment to plug infrastructure funding gap
Private participation is among the key factors that led to massive investments in the power sector. the investors need to look at PPPs as a patience, passion & perseverance model
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Infrastructure sector's double-push potential
Infrastructure attracts investment; its very creation would also provide a demand push to the economy
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Infrastructure firms chant change mantra for land acquisition barrier
Land... should flow freely from the owner to the buyer without much of an administrative interference
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Questions abound over smart city project
Experts caution against it turning elitist, say there's a need to involve the local population
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Worries from new GDP series, too
Investments, demand not looking up even in the new set of numbers; also, underlines the surge in govt spending and resulting pressure on reining in the fiscal deficit
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WPI in negative zone, 50 bps rate cut likely by June
Prices of food, fuel, manufactured goods dip; retail inflation to follow
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Navin Kumar: GST's professional 'amateur'
His interest didn't ride on India's nineties' IT boom but developed in the late eighties, in the ministry of water resources and later in Sierra Leone, where he took a three-year posting as Chief Tech
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Bumps ahead for Financial Code future
With many sections of the financial market unhappy about certain provisions of the FSLRC report, changes are likely in the modified draft
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