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Tadit Kundu

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ARTICLES BY TADIT KUNDU

Sixty-three percent of the sons born in the 1980s to fathers in any of the three occupations—farmer, agricultural labourer or construction worker—continued to remain in the same occupation. Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint

Low mobility across generations heightens job creation challenge

3 min read . 25 Dec 2019

The calls for a government bailout package came five years after

Why telecom firms are looking for a bailout yet again

5 min read . 25 Dec 2019

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on 14 September inaugurated India’s first bullet train project—a $19 billion line in Gujarat—home state of PM Narendra Modi, intended to revitalise the country’s vast but dilapidated network. Photo: AFP

Is Japan’s bullet train loan the best deal India has ever had?

3 min read . 25 Dec 2019

Rule by a strong leader is defined as one with minimum interference from Parliament or the courts. Photo: AFP

Has support for autocratic rule grown in India?

2 min read . 25 Dec 2019

Even when viewed in terms of road length, the proposals do not amount to a significant increase. Photo: Hindustan Times

Can Bharatmala revive India’s capex cycle and boost growth?

3 min read . 25 Dec 2019

Moody’s Investor Services’s has upgraded India’s credit ratings to Baa2 from Baa3 and changed its India outlook to ‘positive’ from ‘neutral’, a first in 14 years. Photo: Bloomberg

India’s journey from Fragile Five to favoured investment destination

3 min read . 25 Dec 2019

Higher oil prices dampen the outlook on the Indian economy as they drag down growth, tend to widen fiscal deficit and current account deficit, and raise inflationary risks. Photo: Bloomberg

What the Moody’s rating upgrade does not change for the Indian economy

3 min read . 25 Dec 2019

Citing upside risks to inflation, RBI’s monetary policy committee decided to keep interest rates unchanged in its 5-6 December meeting. Photo: Aniruddha Chowdhury/Mint

Has RBI consistently over-estimated inflation in its forecasts?

3 min read . 25 Dec 2019

The backlog or the ‘pendency rate’ with India’s courts and police reached its highest level since the turn of the twenty-first century in 2016, the latest year for which such data is available.

Why the wheels of justice turn ever slower in India

4 min read . 25 Dec 2019

The increase in government spending has been driven by higher revenue spending, suggesting that this could be inflationary. It is this fear coupled with a demand-supply mismatch in the bond market that has driven up bond yields. Photo: AFP

Beware the ire of bond vigilantes

3 min read . 25 Dec 2019

While the rural economy may not be in as dire straits as in the summer of 2015, the rural economic crisis is indeed real and has lasted quite long. Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint

Can Budget 2018 address slowdown in rural economy?

4 min read . 25 Dec 2019

Of late, several economists and policymakers have drawn attention to India’s low share of tax collection as a proportion of the GDP of the Indian economy. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint

Is India an outlier when it comes to tax-GDP ratio?

3 min read . 25 Dec 2019

The gulf between the statutory rate and the effective tax rate is largely because of a complex tax system involving a slew of exemptions. Photo: iStockphoto

The inequities in India’s tax system

2 min read . 25 Dec 2019

While presenting the latest budget, the government adopted a UPA-style rhetoric on prioritizing social sector spending, with a focus on farmers and rural development. Photo: PTI

How Modi government’s budgets have differed from UPA’s

3 min read . 25 Dec 2019

It is likely that the stressed assets to advances ratio for banks again worsened in the June quarter, after having improved in 2018-19.

Is India prepared for a global shock?

4 min read . 16 Sep 2019

In four southern states, share of people who went to a theatre about once a month was nearly twice the national average

The north-south divide in reel life

3 min read . 10 Sep 2019

A Chinese investor monitors stock prices at a brokerage house in Beijing. Bond markets in advanced economies have been signalling rising stress for some time, (Photo: AP)

Echoes of 1930s in trade-cum-currency war

4 min read . 26 Aug 2019

Real estate may be a safer bet than equities

3 min read . 19 Aug 2019

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presents the Union Budget 2019-20 in the Lok Sabha at Parliament, in New Delhi on 5 July. (Photo: PTI )

Will protectionism help govt’s ‘Make in India’ plan?

2 min read . 16 Jul 2019

Nirmala Sitharaman sought to allay fears of firms and investors who have increasingly complained of ‘tax terrorism’ in recent years. (ANI)

The government’s budget math faces a tax challenge

3 min read . 09 Jul 2019