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TopicFiscal deficit

Topic: fiscal deficit

What is revenue deficit, fiscal expansion? Here’s a budget dictionary to crack the jargon

The Budget is upon us and so are terms such as revenue deficit, fiscal expansion & Public Sector Borrowing Requirement. Here's a dictionary to unscramble them.

Budget 2019: India has a law to cap fiscal deficit but UPA and NDA couldn’t care less

No matter what the specific deficits caps, debt limits or escape clauses are, a stronger rule of law in fiscal policy is in public interest.

Bond bulls get cold feet over fiscal discipline worries ahead of Modi govt budget

Bond traders have already shown signs they can be nervous about India’s financial health as economic growth & tax collections worsen.

Former CEA lowers GDP to 4.5% in 2011-12 to 2016-17 period & Vivek Katju on Pakistan

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

This is how Modi govt managed to keep 2018-19 fiscal deficit ‘artificially low’

Data shows Modi government used off-budget borrowings by FCI, NABARD, others to keep fiscal deficit at 3.4%.

Relax against corruption says R Jagannathan, Stephen Alter on death in the Himalayas

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Bachi Karkaria on disruptors other than Modi, Kaushik Basu on world’s biggest economic risks

The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Fiscal deficit at 3.39% in 2018-19, marginally lower than revised Budget estimate

In absolute terms, fiscal deficit stood at Rs 6.45 lakh crore as against Rs 6.34 lakh crore in the revised estimates of Budget.

Ex-IAS officer’s take on 6 key economic challenges new Modi govt faces

The new Modi government must go beyond statements and take concrete action on ground to address the economic challenges.

RBI warns finance panel of more fiscal slippages for states

The remarks were made during a meeting between the members of the 15th Finance Commission and the RBI.

On Camera

Sanjeev Sanyal says UPSC is poverty of aspiration. But it’s more about desperation

The most productive years of Indian youth gets wasted preparing for the UPSC. But they didn't create this system; the government did.

Why Tamil Nadu’s women make up nearly half of India’s female factory workforce

With an educated & skilled workforce, Tamil Nadu has a burgeoning industrial sector which has scored massive investments in automobiles, electronics, and even footwear.

BRO connects new axis to Ladakh, to be shortest route

The all-weather Nimmu-Padam-Darcha Road will connect Manali to Leh through Darcha and Nimmu on Kargil-Leh Highway.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.