Page 13 - Economy Interviews

FY24 disinvestment target pragmatic, but challenging: Dipam Secy Pandey

'Privatisation processes are BMMP (bandwidth, market available, minority shareholders, and the process)', said Tuhin Kanta Pandey

Over 50% taxpayers may shift to new tax regime: Revenue secretary

"Goods and Services Tax (GST) growth is estimated at 12 per cent as we expect the economy to do better domestically. However, keeping excise and customs in mind, we lowered the overall target"

Our capex increase accounts for global slowdown: Finance secy TV Somanathan

"The government's welfare schemes are quite large, comprehensive, well spread and the emphasis is on implementation rather than on budget provisions"

Call on FY24 green bond, H2 borrowing to be taken together: Ajay Seth

We are at 57 per cent of GDP for the central government, we have to see that every year we nibble away may be a percentage point, said Ajay Seth, Economic Affairs Secretary

Won't allow sensitive issues to scuttle India-UK trade talks: Piyush Goyal

"With Canada, while they are also not much of a manufacturing base, we have to go into more details. With the UK, it's a manufacturing country on many products. So we have to do it very carefully"

Budget must focus on lowering fiscal deficit: EY India's Rajiv Memani

In an interview with Ruchika Chitravanshi, Rajiv Memani, Chairman and Managing Partner of EY India, said that there is a strong enabling environment for private sector investment

Budget should make infra projects investor friendly: IIFCL MD PR Jaishankar

In an interview with Nikesh Singh, IIFCL managing director PR Jaishankar talks about the way ahead for the key infra financier

India can't afford yet more disruptions to supply chains: Ficci President

'What is most unfortunate is that countries are looking to finance their transition to a green economy by taxing others'

We see trade with India growing two-fold in next 5 years: Ontario minister

In a Q&A, Victor Fedeli says several top Indian companies are continuing to build their presence in the Canadian province despite concerns of tighter global financial conditions

India has to compete to gain from 'China Plus One' strategy: Eswar Prasad

Companies, investors around the world looking at India's policy trajectory, says the professor of trade policy at Cornell University

Budget may not be right time to restructure capital gains tax: Revenue secy

There's no need for having so many buckets under the capital gains tax structure or so many different permutations and combinations, says Tarun Bajaj

India-UK FTA:'Mustn't hurriedly wrap negotiations with artificial deadline'

UK India Business Council MD lists four "Ps" to explains why he is confident the deal will happen

Everything shouldn't be hardcoded into data protection Bill: Vaishnaw

But it should provide the foundation over which you should be able to build any other regulation required for a particular sector, the minister said

Focus is to capture, not halt, carbon emissions: Coal min Pralhad Joshi

'Both domestic exploration and buying stake in overseas mineral mines is on the agenda'

What does Nobel laureate Douglas Diamond think of dominance of PSBs?

Business Standard's Veenu Sandhu & Manojit Saha speaks to Prof Douglas Diamond, who won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics, on how banks can brace themselves amidst concerns of a recession and more

Fintechs shadow banks of current time, are fragile: Douglas W Diamond

Professor at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, Diamond received the prize along with Philip Dybvig and former Fed chair Ben Bernanke

Without science and technology, Indian agriculture cannot prosper: Pental

'We have been asked to go for coordinated trials to be conducted by ICAR'

What is leading economist Rakesh Mohan's view on inflation?

How will global slowdown affect India? When will RBI's steps to rein-in inflation start show results? Former RBI deputy governor Rakesh Mohan answer these in a conversation with Business Standard

Global economy facing disruptions, India can't be decoupled: Rakesh Mohan

Country has to tailor its actions in response to international crises, says economist and former deputy governor of RBI

Bottom-up approach required in fixing divestment target: DIPAM secretary

'If the geopolitical situation stabilises, we'll see whether we can relaunch the (BPCL) transaction', said Tuhin Kanta Pandey