The Economic Times

BPO s can relax. Finance minister P Chidambaram has been advised to withdraw the circular proposing to tax something never heard of before: core services that are outsourced to India. While international treaties and practices have clear concepts such as […]

Given the poor literacy and school completion rates in India after more than 50 years of independence, the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) of the new coalition government promises to increase public spending on education from 4.1% of GDP to 6%.

Given the poor literacy and school completion rates in India after more than 50 years of independence, the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) of the new coalition government promises to increase public spending on education from 4.1% of GDP to 6%.

The CMP’s reform agenda may be the whip that breaks the economy’s back. It’s sure to swell the fiscal deficit and send FIIs scurrying for cover. Last year, remittances by NRIs, FDI and FIIs were close to 6% of the

The CMP’s reform agenda may be the whip that breaks the economy’s back. It’s sure to swell the fiscal deficit and send FIIs scurrying for cover. Last year, remittances by NRIs, FDI and FIIs were close to 6% of the

The Common Minimum Programme (CMP) of the ruling coalition is being trumpeted as ‘reform with a human face’ but looks suspiciously like ‘populism with a bankrupt face’. If seriously implemented, the CMP could swell the fiscal deficit from 10% of

The Common Minimum Programme (CMP) of the ruling coalition is being trumpeted as ‘reform with a human face’ but looks suspiciously like ‘populism with a bankrupt face’. If seriously implemented, the CMP could swell the fiscal deficit from 10% of

The Congress engineered the right alliances in the right places and so won many more seats with fewer votes. The opposite was true of the BJP, argues Many reasons have been given in the media for the poll outcome —

The Congress engineered the right alliances in the right places and so won many more seats with fewer votes. The opposite was true of the BJP, argues Many reasons have been given in the media for the poll outcome —

Original sin, once just a Christian doctrine, has now become an economic concept too thanks to economists like Barry Eichengreen, Ricardo Hausmann, Panizzi and Roberto Rigobon. It refers to the inability of developing countries like India to raise foreign loans