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Business News > Mint Authors > Soumya Kanti Ghosh

Soumya Kanti Ghosh

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ARTICLES BY SOUMYA KANTI GHOSH

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with then Union minister for finance Arun Jaitley and then MoS for Finance, Jayant Sinha at the launch of Pradhan Mantri MUDRA at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi, India, on 8 April 2015.

Mudra scheme reorients financial inclusion: Evidence of a strategic shift

2 min read . 08 Apr 2025

Indian EVMs are now duly supported by a Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail system for sample checks.

Democracy would regress if we dump EVMs and revert to paper ballots

4 min read . 13 Jan 2025

If we look at the instrument-wise financial assets of Indian households from 2019-20 to 2022-23, it reveals that households are conservative and 94% of flows go towards fixed-income instruments like bank deposits, small savings schemes while only 6% flows to markets.

Mutual funds versus bank deposits? Dispel that myth.

4 min read . 12 Mar 2024

India’s economic story has always been led by robust consumption, with net exports acting as a drag.

A services-led export strategy holds appeal but only up to a certain point

5 min read . 08 Feb 2024

In 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the voter turnout increased by a whopping 137 million to 550 million, of whom 260 million were women. (PTI)

The empowerment of women is set to strengthen our democracy

4 min read . 08 Jan 2024

India is significantly better than what the GHI index portrays, since on undernourishment and under-five mortality rate—each with a weightage of a third—it performs much better than other countries. (Photo: HT)

We must rise above misleading ‘global hunger’ rankings based on odd methodology

4 min read . 06 Nov 2023

Photo: iStock (MINT_PRINT)

Fuel under GST: Fears of a revenue hit are exaggerated

4 min read . 05 May 2023

Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana: Credit saturation for livelihoods

5 min read . 09 Apr 2023

India is much better placed on macro indicators, especially on the external front, than some critics argue. Photo: Mint

The Fed stumbled where RBI steadied the ship

4 min read . 21 Jul 2022

Banks have RBI to extend the deadline for recasts.pradeep gaur

RBI’s decisive policy move will help impart stability to markets

4 min read . 08 Jun 2022

Photo: Bloomberg

Why Indian banks need new measures for operational risk

4 min read . 25 Mar 2022

For FY23, with the ceiling of net borrowing at 4% of GDP and an additional 0.5% of GDP conditional borrowing by states announced by government, the net borrowings are pegged at ₹6.6 trillion, and gross borrowings are expected to come around ₹9 trillion after taking a repayment of around ₹2.4 trillion.

Fireballs juggled well; brickwork laid for growth

4 min read . 03 Feb 2022

Wait and watch remains the mantra for RBI

3 min read . 09 Dec 2021

The informal economy’s share may be one-fifth at most

4 min read . 12 Nov 2021

FILE PHOTO: RBI has reduced its projection of real GDP growth for FY22 by 100 bps to 9.5% (REUTERS)

As third wave looms, central bank’s move to maintain status quo is prudent

4 min read . 05 Jun 2021

The Reserve Bank of India (MINT_PRINT)

A policy of many firsts and various innovative moves

3 min read . 05 Feb 2021

RBI governor Shaktikanta Das

Thinking outside the box in these testing times

3 min read . 09 Oct 2020

A revival in construction and services will be necessary to support the nascent growth in agriculture. mint

Q1 figures paint a sordid state of the economy, no respite likely this fiscal

3 min read . 31 Aug 2020

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. (Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint)

Opinion | Dissecting phase 1 of Atmanirbhar Bharat package

2 min read . 14 May 2020

Former Fed chair Ben Bernanke said ‘constrained discretion’ rules are more effective in achieving desired goals of monetary policy.

‘Constrained discretion’ approach is the ideal way to tackle current slump

3 min read . 06 Feb 2020