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Business News > Mint Authors > Ajit Ranade

Ajit Ranade

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ARTICLES BY AJIT RANADE

It is the growth process that will generate the dividends required for a more generous redistribution policy.

The persistence of unequal growth will be bad for India

4 min read . 09 Apr 2024

The law stipulates an upper limit on spending per candidate, but there is no limit on what a party can spend. (HT_PRINT)

Transparency in poll funding could lead to a national clean-up

4 min read . 27 Mar 2024

In the last financial year, more than 1 million new electric vehicles (EVs) rolled onto Indian roads. (Photo: Bloomberg)

The proliferation of EVs could make decarbonization harder to achieve

4 min read . 15 Mar 2024

Over time, the consumption pattern has evolved as follows: from cereals to non-cereals; from carbohydrates to proteins, including milk, eggs, poultry and meat; from home-cooked to packaged food, including restaurants; and from food to non-food.

India’s household consumption survey captures predictable changes

4 min read . 01 Mar 2024

In the absence of universal and adequate social security, or a universal basic income, the minimum support price (MSP) is a proxy for protecting the farmer, the seller of crops, just as the employment “guarantee” scheme is a proxy for formal unemployment insurance to rural folk.

Farm anxiety: An MSP law is neither unthinkable nor a magic bullet

4 min read . 20 Feb 2024

The fiscal deficit target for this year was 5.9%, but performance was better at 5.8% of GDP. (ANI)

The Union budget shows remarkable fiscal restraint

4 min read . 01 Feb 2024

In a country with a huge informal sector, and a large number of self-employed persons, intensive and regular household surveys are essential not just to measure poverty, but to frame policy in general.

Multidimensional poverty data reopens a great debate

4 min read . 17 Jan 2024

Under Arvind Panagariya, the 16th Finance Commission has to contend with increased funding needs for the provision of national level public goods, such as meeting net-zero emission targets. (Photo: HT)

The 16th Finance Commission must help fund city councils and panchayats

4 min read . 01 Jan 2024

The most effective way to maximize wealth through compounding is by maintaining long-term investments.

Evergreening of loans still remains a bane of banking

4 min read . 20 Dec 2023

It is estimated that 30% of China’s GDP is connected directly or indirectly with real estate. (AFP)

China’s woes: Aiming for a big global role as its economy falters is tough

4 min read . 29 Nov 2023

In the first five years of its operation, the value of capital realized from all cases admitted under IBC was only 20%, implying a rather dismal haircut rate of 80% for creditors.

The SC’s ruling on personal debt guarantees will help unlock dead capital

4 min read . 14 Nov 2023

Pensions, including both OPS and NPS, currently cover barely 3.2% of India’s workforce but they collectively gobble 18% of government revenues.

The Old Pension Scheme wildfire must be stopped before it’s too late

4 min read . 08 Nov 2023

In a young country, the status of children’s well-being deserves a high weightage.

Improve nutrition delivery and don't bristle at low rank

4 min read . 18 Oct 2023

With increasing longevity, it often meant that persons were collecting pension for a duration longer than their active service.

India’s old pension scheme was simply not sustainable

4 min read . 02 Oct 2023

Manmohan Singh was asked, not once but twice, by Julius Nyerere to head the South Commission as Secretary General, a post he held for three years from 1987.

Former PM Manmohan Singh at 91: An inspiring life

4 min read . 29 Sep 2023

Roughly 60% of savings are non-financial and go into gold or real estate. (Mint)

The tumble in India’s savings rate needs to be reversed

4 min read . 20 Sep 2023

High quality publicly-funded education, if widely accessible, can undo the unequalizing effect of private elite schools, which transmit inequality across generations.

A dire Kota scenario calls for out-of-the-box solutions

4 min read . 05 Sep 2023

Growth in GST revenues should not only keep pace with nominal GDP but overtake it.

The promise of our goods and services tax is unfulfilled

4 min read . 23 Aug 2023

As digital devices have a high rate of obsolescence, free and instant access to the latest products is imperative. (AP)

Import licensing on its own is not an industrial policy

4 min read . 09 Aug 2023

The national MSME Act specifies that payment to small businesses cannot be delayed by more than 45 days.

Three small but effective ideas to help small businesses

4 min read . 19 Jul 2023