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Budget a fine balance between prudent spending, incentives to woo capital

The FM's speech boosted sentiments through announcement of anticipated reforms like infra funding through a new DFI, 'bad bank'-type structure for resolution of stressed assets

Covid spending to tax revenue: Key numbers to watch out for in Budget 2021

Here are the key numbers to watch out for in the Budget for 2021-22, which is widely expected to be a "economic vaccine" for the pandemic-battered economy.

Statsguru: Economic Survey sets the tone for most awaited Union Budget

The Survey batted for a bold fiscal expansion to make the economic recovery more broad-based

Fiscal activism

Govt should tread carefully on this path

Govt should spend, increase healthcare allocation: CEA to industry leaders

Speaking on privatisation, Subramanian said disinvestment would happen this year and selling Air India would be a seminal moment that would clearly signal the government's intent

Highest since independence: Economic Survey pegs GDP growth at 11% in FY22

This translates into real GDP growing only 2.4% over the absolute level of 2019-20

'Contact-sensitive sector with manufacturing will contribute to 11% growth'

The Indian economy can contract by 7.7 per cent in the current financial year ending on March 31 and the growth could be 11 per cent in the next financial year, according to the Economic Survey

Best of BS Opinion: Budget for the victims, the Wall Street game, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Economic Survey defends lockdown strategy to fight Covid-19 pandemic

To implement its strategy, India imposed the most stringent lockdown at the very onset of the pandemic

RBI must use reserves for domestic investment, says Economic Survey

The reserves have risen as imports contracted and the country turned surplus.

Budget to be seen as part of mini budgets of 2020, says PM Narendra Modi

Sitharaman is scheduled to present the Budget in the Lok Sabha on Monday

Roads, health care consistent priority for govt: Economic Survey

Private participation remains low, the Survey shows

A missed opportunity: Eco Survey fails to address the problem of employment

The Survey concludes that the lockdown was a critical instrument in flattening the curve and saving lives

A call to print more money: Economic Survey sees a 'V-shaped recovery'

Forget fiscal conservatism, turn on the fiscal taps, and ignore debt build-up, says Survey

Economic survey 2020-21: Forget rating agencies, spend without fear

Government spending becomes imperative at the time of excessive risk aversion in the private sector

Tight regulation vs discretion: Economic Survey pitches for transparency

"The reality of incomplete contracts leads to inevitability of incomplete regulation. This makes some discretion unavoidable," says the Survey

Economic Survey's optimism about India's public debt looks misplaced

India will not face the problem of debt sustainability even in the worst of scenarios till 2030, the Survey observed.

Eco Survey bats for sustained, calibrated measures to facilitate recovery

Economic Survey is rich in analysis and comparisons with international data and this makes it an important policy document as has been the case in previous years

Eco Survey suggests end to forbearance, another asset quality review round

Severely criticises RBI for not being able to unearth full extent of bad debt mess in banks in previous AQR round

Increasing health spend to 3% can halve out-of-pocket expenses: Eco Survey

The survey said the focus must be on building the health care system generally rather than a specific focus on communicable diseases