Reassessing India’s Inequality: Evaluating the World Bank’s Claim
This article reassesses inequality in India by critically evaluating the world bank's recent claim using consumption data, Gini coefficients, and Lorenz analysis.
Category Public Finances and Macroeconomics
India’s Research & Development Crisis: Why Innovation Needs Investment, Not Loans
TK Arun The government’s new Research, Development and Innovation scheme is half-hearted hope masquerading as policy. True, it talks big money: Rs 1 trillion, for private sector R&D, which, at present, is vanishingly small, and certainly needs a policy-induced boost.…
8 Years of GST in India: What Went Wrong with the One-Nation-One-Tax Promise?
GST WAS LAUNCHED ON JULY 1, 2017 with the promise that it would transform the Indian economy. It was characterized as a second freedom since it would unify the nation. Eight years later, it is time to assess its performance. While the Prime Minister has lauded the tax, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, has criticised it since it marginalises the marginals.
Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA)
Higher Education Financing Agency was conceived in India's 2016-17 union budget to provide financial assistance for the creation of capital assets in premier educational institutions in India.
Rationalisation of TDS and TCS (2025): Bridging the gap in Tax compliance and efficiency
Tax deducted at source (TDS), is a tax collection mechanism utilised by the Government of India for the collection of revenue at the very source of income. TDS is a form of indirect tax that ensures a regular revenue source for the government, advances tax collection, prevents tax evasion, and widens the tax base.
Bharat Trade Net 2025: Transforming India’s Trade Infrastructure through Digital Integration
Bharat trade net, announced during the Union Budget 2025-26, is intended to help exporters, especially MSME’s through reduction in procedural hurdles, improving documentation processing and minimization of compliance delays.
The Ministry Of Commerce and Industry: Building India’s Global Trade Powerhouse
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry was established under the Government of India to boost, regulate, and monitor the trade of goods and services domestically and internationally, inducing economic growth by developing industries, collaborating with the world for trade partnerships, and fostering commercial relationships.