Category Center for the Study for Finance and Economics

Analysis of State Budget and Public Finance Data

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.

Crony Capitalists Due To Corrupt Political Funding

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.

Strategies for India to maintain satisfactory economic expansion amidst a global slowdown

The World Bank has forecast slower world growth, for the current year and the next, at 2.9% and 3%, respectively. Emerging markets and developing economies, which normally gallop ahead of the rest of the world, are expected to grow at just 3.4% this year, with Covid- and zero-Covid-afflicted China growing at a rate slower than the US for the first time in 40 years or so. Does this cripple India's chance of growing at least 7%? It does not, and not because the World Bank pegs India's growth rate at 7.5%, higher than the Reserve Bank of India's own estimate of 7.2%.

The Danger of Cartels Forming in Various Sectors Post-Covid

In the US, there is the concept of measuring the consumer feel-good factor through inflation expectation. If the consumer feels that inflation is likely to ease, they feel good about it and do not mind paying higher prices for cartels in the short run. In fact, the consumer settles for a higher price, and the business decides on a higher nominal wage.

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