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Puja Mehra

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The UT administration has in a public notice invited bids for calculation of GSDP.

D&N Haveli floats tender to outsource GSDP estimation

1 min read . 09 Jan 2023

C. Rangarajan was a bookish academic once. His thesis at the University of Pennsylvania was on an aspect of the monetary transmission mechanism in the US. (HT)

The policymaker who made key choices along our reforms path

4 min read . 28 Dec 2022

What made high inflation stubborn wasn’t Russia’s war, suddenly, but RBI’s policy choices.

The record shows that ‘Arjuna’s eye’ hasn’t quite been on inflation

4 min read . 12 Dec 2022

A trove of insights on how to get India’s institutions future-ready

4 min read . 11 Sep 2022

Record borrowings by the Centre and states this fiscal, the government fears, will crowd out the private sector and make fundraising costly for companies. This may, in turn, slow India’s economic growth (Photo: Mint)

RBI suggests govt ask Brics Bank to sell rupee bonds overseas

2 min read . 05 Jul 2022

While the central bank has failed to stanch the rupee’s slide, it has followed a policy of intermittent interventions (Photo: Mint)

Centre, RBI brace for more rupee volatility

3 min read . 30 Jun 2022

“Woke” capitalism, simply put, is a system in which companies take, or purport to take, stands on social/ political issues. (REUTERS)

Explainer: How woke capitalism captured our imagination

2 min read . 22 Jun 2022

Payments to farmers for their produce could comprise two distinct parts: a market stabilization price and an income transfer. (Photo: Mint)

Stalled farm reforms could still be given another push

4 min read . 07 Apr 2022

Suranjali Tandon, assistant professor, NIPFP.

‘Conspicuous consumption by the rich has increased GST collections’

4 min read . 26 Jan 2022

The paper also observes a sharp spike in extreme poverty during the pandemic, i.e. from February 2020 to July 2021, the last date for which data used in the paper are currently available. bloomberg

Income inequality in India declined during the pandemic: study

2 min read . 31 Dec 2021

NITI Aayog member Ramesh Chand.

‘Legalizing MSP spells doom for mkt, implies takeover of trade by govt’

4 min read . 29 Nov 2021

The MPC framework is aimed at reducing RBI’s discretion to set monetary policy (Photo: Reuters)

RBI push to independently set reverse repo rate draws flak

4 min read . 17 Sep 2021

Economic revival is contingent on the severity and duration of the ongoing health crisis. The finance minister’s decision to provide the funds required for mass vaccination from the Union budget can help the economy immensely. (Photo: Raj K. Raj/HT)

Can the finance minister pull it off?

9 min read . 26 Jul 2021

Economist Amartya Lahiri suggests that India should immediately get rid of the decentralized procurement policy, along with the tiered pricing.

‘India’s vaccine ecosystem is messed up’

10 min read . 07 May 2021

The protesting farmers are in the top two percent of all income earners in India (REUTERS)

‘Protesting farmers aren’t demanding change, they want status quo’

3 min read . 08 Feb 2021

Delhi fortified

Govt considers referring farm laws to House panel

2 min read . 05 Feb 2021

Rakesh Mohan, President and Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Social and Economic Progress

'A moment 30 years ago that had been a year and a half in the making’

3 min read . 22 Jan 2021

Vijay Kelkar, former finance secretary and chair, 13th Finance Commission.

‘If you want to be a great economic power, you can’t be protectionist’

3 min read . 21 Jan 2021

Ruchir Sharma, head of EMs, Morgan Stanley Investment Management

‘Only in a crisis does India reform and we’re seeing signs of it now’

3 min read . 21 Jan 2021

Apollo Hospitals founder Prathap C. Reddy and his daughter and vice-chairperson Preetha Reddy.

Just what the doctor ordered: How reforms transformed healthcare

3 min read . 21 Jan 2021

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