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Dhiraj Nayyar At the start of her fourth Budget speech, Nirmala Sitharaman said that she would be laying out a blueprint for the next 25 years. Interestingly, over the next 90 minutes, she also laid out a blueprint for an ideal budget. At…
T K Arun The budget gambles that the pandemic will retreat in the next couple of months and that large-scale state funding will strengthen recovery, visible in double-digit growth of capital good imports, strong export growth and improvement in the…
Harsh V. Pant One year into office and the Biden Presidency is coming apart at the seams. Normally, United States (US) presidents enjoy a honeymoon period for a year, but Joe Biden’s leadership has been flailing since the disastrous withdrawal…
Tikender Singh Panwar There is widespread traction for an urban employment guarantee scheme, similar to the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), in the urban spectrum. This demand comes not just from youth organizations but also from workers’…
TK Arun Budget 2022-23 gambles that investment-led growth would alleviate the economic distress wrought by the pandemic and an economy that was slowing desperately even before that, and, to that end, pursues growth rather than relief and doles with its…
Arun Kumar Much was expected from the Union Budget 2022 which has come at a time when the Indian economy is facing economic turmoil due to the coronavirus pandemic and battling widespread unemployment and inflation. High hopes were pinned on…
Santosh Mehrotra In the absence of any vision document (for example, a five-year plan) put out by the current Union government, the annual budget is supposed to provide direction to the country and the government’s own departments about the priorities…