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Mapping recovery

India needs a new medium-term economic road map

Estimation error?: Government estimates go awry when growth trends down

Historical analysis shows that the government tends to underestimate the growth in agriculture every year; as growth has slipped in the last few years, it has fallen prey to overestimation errors

Best of BS Opinion: Some stability returns, view from the edge & more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Friday

View from the edge

The Union government is so fiscally ineffective that it can only spend an incremental 0.4 per cent of GDP on healthcare in a pandemic, against a global average of 1.2 per cent, writes Rathin Roy

The post-Covid economy

There is a strong case for the government to shift its attention from the economy to public service management

Economy likely to see cyclical upturn, says DSP Investment Managers' Sambre

'This may be driven by enhanced government spending in core areas,' says Vinit Sambre, head - equities and fund manager, DSP Investment Managers

Advance tax collection: Automobile, IT firms lead surge in April-June qtr

Maruti Suzuki, Hero MotoCorp, TCS, and Infosys reported a jump between 44 per cent and 200 per cent in the April-June quarter of this financial year on account of a low base

Exports: India's window of opportunity

The possibility of a sharp recovery for the economy can only be realised through a strong focus on exports.

Caution on inflation

RBI's primary mandate should remain inflation targeting

NDA's Bermuda Triangle

The government has to generate a huge amount of employment without giving an upward push to inflation, while keeping subsistence spending intact

Some bright spots

There are still a number of risks to durable economic recovery

Advance tax collection surges 146% despite Covid-19-led economic disruption

Net direct tax mop-up zooms 100% till June 15

Best of BS Opinion: Rising inflation risk, Centre's GTR in 2020-21 & more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Tuesday

Dangers of a wrong diagnosis

Indirect taxes are now higher than direct taxes. But cutting indirect tax rates to address this will amount to barking up the wrong tree

Rising inflation risk

Ignoring it for long could increase longer-term costs

Economic theory says inequality will rise as international trade grows

Robin Hoodism - robbing the rich to pay the poor - isn't consistent with either democratic ideals or trust in government

Pakistan govt unveils Rs 8.5 tn FY budget, defence gets Rs 1,370 bn

Pakistan government on Friday proposed Pakistani rupees 8,487 billion budget for the next financial year with a fiscal deficit target at 6.3 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP)

Pakistan, in bailout deal with IMF, sets 4.8% GDP growth target for 2021-22

Pakistan's economy suffered a 0.47 per cent contraction in FY2019/20

'Dec'21 Nifty target of 16,500; still a lot of opportunity in large-caps'

Piyush Garg, executive vice-president & CIO PMS, ICICI Securities shares his views on the road ahead for the markets and the investing strategies one should adopt

India loses 5-7% of GDP due to corrosion: International Zinc Association

The association also stressed upon the need for immediate and appropriate measures by authorities to control further damage.