Union Budget 2026–27: Reform Rhetoric, Unequal Outcomes
True reforms would ensure a level playing field and boost public investments in education, healthcare and social security
Category Center for the Study for Finance and Economics
Decoding the U.S. Trade Deal: Strategic Signals and Policy Implications
In spite of the Agreement being presented officially as win-win, it is one-sided.
Union Budget 2026–27: Incremental Change Without Structural Transformation
The Union Budget 2026-27 lacks a clear vision which will neither resolve the current problems faced by the economy nor will it help meet the global challenge ahead.
Indian Economy and Union Budget 2026-27
The IMPRI Center for the Study of Finance and Economics (CSFE) at the IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, organized a thematic discussion on Indian Economy and Union Budget 2026-27 as a part of the 7th Annual Series of Thematic Deliberations and Analysis of Union Budget 2026-27 which was held on 7th February 2026.
Evaluating India’s GDP: How Reliable Are the Estimates?
ARUN KUMAR GDP is taken to give an idea of the production of goods and services in an economy. Because of the huge diversity of what is produced in a modern society, aggregation becomes difficult. GDP yields one monetary number…
A Year of Anxiety for India’s Economy: Tariffs, Data Gaps, and the Rupee
ARUN KUMAR If there was one feature that characterised the Indian economy in 2025, it was uncertainty. This stemmed from both internal and external factors. The penal tariffs imposed on India by US President Donald Trump were central to this…
Union Budget 2026–27: India’s Budget Masks Jobs And Growth Faultlines
The IMPRI Center for the Study of Finance and Economics (CSFE), Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, hosted an interactive panel discussion on “Indian Economy and Union Budget 2026–27” on February 7, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. IST under IMPRI’s 7th Annual Series of Thematic Deliberations and Analysis of Union Budget 2026–27, bringing together leading economists and policy researchers to examine the growth outlook, fiscal strategy, labour-market pressures and structural reforms embedded in the latest Budget.