The BJP uses official data to buttress its tall claims on growth, inflation and other issues. But even those in the government have expressed doubts over the data. One cannot deny that the ground reality is at variance from the rosy depiction by the government.
It was tempting for the MPC, at a time when change in the Consumer Price Index from its level a year ago is still above the median target of 4 per cent, to cry Inflation and let loose higher policy rates
The multidimensional poverty report released by the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) suffers from gaps and opens the door for suspicion when we consider several data of the preceding years, including the pandemic years.
An online International Summer School Program on “Data, Monitoring and Evaluation” is a two-month immersive online hands-on certificate training course organised by IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi. The day 5 of the program on July 1st, started with a session on "Analysis of State Budget and Public Finance Data," Dr Radhika Pandey, Senior Fellow, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi. Dr. Pandey proved to be an excellent guide for participants seeking insights into state budget analysis.
BENJAMIN Franklin is supposed to have said that the only certain things in life are death and taxes. The certainty of taxes can be exaggerated, especially in India. But there is nothing uncertain about the fury of a taxman who has been scorned.
GOODS and Services Tax (GST) has completed six years since it was launched on midnight of June 30, 2017. It was billed as India’s second freedom. In a repetition of the then Parliament’s midnight meeting on August 14, 1947, the Parliament met dramatically in 2017 to hear the Prime Minister announce the launch of GST.
IT might seem a stretch to argue that corporate governance and bank asset quality depend on cleaning up India’s political funding. But it is not. It is simply the cold, hard truth. And since that reform is yet to happen, all talk of a robust financial sector and SEBI’s incremental success in reforming corporate governance is as hollow as the claim that India, long driven by caste hierarchy and grossly unequal distribution of social and cultural power, has democracy in its DNA.