Topic: Growth Rate
Budget 2019 shows how India can not only become $5 trillion economy, but can also do it fast
With a favourable external environment and a stable exchange rate, India can achieve $4 trillion in next three years.
How Jharkhand can get the right IAS officers to turnaround like Chhattisgarh
Both were carved out of BIMARU states, but one raced ahead.
Modi ji, stop repeating Vajpayee’s mistake on the economy
The Vajpayee govt suppressed food prices and lost, while the first Manmohan Singh govt corrected that and was re-elected. It’s good politics and good economics.
Third World catching up with the West is a big win for economic theory
Some countries are even set to make the leap from developing to developed status, as South Korea has already done.
Demand is cooling and that explains why RBI didn’t hike interest rates
Capacity utilisation rate, consumer confidence, and outlook for demand in manufacturing sector in third quarter were less optimistic, RBI surveys show.
Despite India’s economic growth, the moment for China-like job creation may be lost
Reduction of employment-generating tendency of economic growth has been especially marked in the last 15 years
India’s software exports are not the answer to the rising oil bill
Attention has to be focused on the relative stagnation in merchandise exports over the medium term.
Simplify GST to maintain high growth, IMF tells India
Also urges a clean-up of banks' balance sheets as it projects growth at 7.8% for FY 19-20.
Vir Das incident proves rogue sneezing and coughing are the new guns during Covid-19
Comedian Vir Das’s Twitter post showing a neighbour threatening to sneeze on him points to a growing global trend of people using sneezes & coughs as threats.
Yogi vs Uddhav vs Piyush Goyal: Will politics over migrant workers hurt economic revival?
Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray’s accusation that the Railways is not running enough trains to ferry migrant workers sparked a Twitter war with Railway minister Piyush Goyal.
Defence
Ladakh stand-off, Kashmir, ammunition & training — agenda for Army commanders’ meet tomorrow
The biannual event is attended by the top Army leadership to brainstorm on new security and administrative issues, and plan a roadmap.
PM, CM, DM: India’s 3 big power centres have been exposed by one disaster
The prime minister, chief minister and district magistrate are the three engines of India’s governance, but their handling of the coronavirus pandemic is going awry.