Page 16 - Economy & Policy Analysis

India-EFTA agreement aligns tariff concessions with investment promotion

In exchange for tariff reduction, EFTA countries will increase foreign investments in India

4 shocks pushed up prices, led to supply disruptions and price reactions

Easing inflation, a smaller fiscal deficit and a turn in US Federal Reserve's policy rates create grounds for policy rate cuts in India

Bias at the ballot box: The ways voters are influenced in elections

Authority figures to availability choice: Our voting decisions are often coloured by biases that are often unconscious

GST disputes persist due to conflicting interpretations of goods, services

Classification of items for GST rates was done on the basis of harmonised system of nomenclature codes. The codes contain 21 sections. These are divided into 99 chapters, which have 1,244 headings

Gender to education and income: India's political gap is narrowing

Right versus Left phenomenon appears to be playing out differently in India

Next big reform in Indian insurance will be indemnity cover for shipping

Amendment to have such a facility could be part of new government's early legislative agenda

Will legalising MSP reduce import Bill of edible oils and pulses?

Contrary to popular perception, India has a trade surplus in agriculture and allied activities, which stood at $18.65 billion during 2022-23 against $15.92 billion in the previous year

IAS officer to constable: Govt training for employees has hits and misses

Mission Karmayogi is ambitious in its target but vague about how civil servants are using what they learn

Three out of five large economies recorded slow growth, shows data

Some larger economies are doing better than others. The United States (US) and China in particular have shown a stronger growth rate in the fourth quarter of the calendar year 2023

At Rs 11 trillion, fiscal deficit narrows to 64% of revised estimates

Both revenue and capital expenditure for the April-January FY2024 period was around 75 per cent

Demand, production of protein, veggies may remain in balance: Survey

The demand and production scenario is as per a Business as Usual (BAU) approach where the overall food demand is expected to grow at an annual rate of 2.44 per cent by 2047-48

The mystery of Rs 8-trn gap between dropped, completed projects in capex

Govt's contribution in the trend is now trending higher than the private sector's

Slower US inflation set to fuel Fed Reserve's interest-rate cut optimism

The overall CPI probably rose less than 3 per cent for the first time in nearly two years, economists forecast Tuesday's report to show

Monetary policy: RBI likely to hold rates for sixth time, shows BS poll

Focus on liquidity; few expect neutral stance

TDS, explaining the rise and rise of a safe-bet tax collection method

The I-T department's cost of collection has been reduced as a share of the total direct taxes collected

Steel imports hit five-year high in April-December amid soaring demand

India's steel demand is likely to stay strong as the government expects economic growth will outpace the global economy in the next fiscal year

India, China banks under pressure from different liquidity stories

The liquidity drought may be deliberate. Unlike Beijing, New Delhi has every reason to be sanguine about growth

How spend, spend is giving state-owned companies diminishing returns

The private sector has been going slow in adding fixed assets but squeezing out more

US Q4 GDP shows annualised 2% rise, expected to crown vigorous second half

While the Fed wants to guard against a re-acceleration of inflation, a further softening of price pressures risks making policy even more restrictive

Davos 2024: Is India's economic growth showing Chinese characteristics?

The talk in Mumbai's financial circles is about a cheery prediction by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. that by 2027 100 million Indians will enjoy incomes of at least $10,000 a year, five times the national