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India walked out of the recently concluded Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) citing unfavourable terms that would harm the domestic industries. While its concerns cannot be wished-away, especially at a time when the economy is in a perilous state and small business are already in the red, the country itself needs to do better by […]

The Indian telecom companies are on a course correction as they finally decide to raise tariffs. It was Vodafone-Idea which first decided to bite the bullet and announced that the joint venture company would raise tariffs on its mobile services from the first week of December. It was followed by Bharti Airtel and later market disrupter Reliance Jio Infocomm followed suit. […]

Auto sales data of last few quarters and latest results of many consumer companies suggest that consumption growth is slowing down in India. With private investment growth not picking up for long, the burden of growth is now on government spending and exports. With government capital expenditure set to contract marginally in FY20 and slowdown […]

Much will depend on implementation Will the Budget 2018-19 be able to help Prime Minister Narendra Modi get another term at the Centre. Well, it can. Yet, how easy or hard it will be? Unlike previous governments, the latest budget has shunned populism, which, though wise, is not always appreciated by a section of the […]

Banks are a proxy for the country’s $2.3 trillion economy, yet India doesn’t have a mechanism to deal with the failure of a financial institution. The global best practice suggests that the country should have one and the Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FDRI) Bill, 2017 proposes to fill this void. However, there is widespread […]

After severely denting the revenues and businesses of many telecom companies, the disruption caused by new player Reliance Jio since September last year was ebbing. But its aggressive launch by offering freebies in the initial months has spurred consolidation of private telecom firms broadly into three main groups: Airtel, Vodafone and Reliance Jio. It has […]

In India, small entrepreneurs create more jobs, which is evident from the fact that only 1.37% of a total of 5.85 crore establishments employed 10 or more workers. However, most of the start-ups fail to survive more than two years due to various disadvantages, including lack of hand-holding, knowledge and funding support. Yet, a few […]

Most of the agencies have lowered their forecasts for India’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2017-18. The main reasons cited for the above include demonetisation impact on both demand and supply, goods and service tax (GST) introduction affecting the smaller firms on the supply side, subdued private investment in the economy, the slowdown in […]

Progressive liberalisation to permit FDI in most sectors gives high dividend. At the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit a few days ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi bragged that India is now one of the most open economies in the world. It is true and facts show it. A major achievement of […]