According to the recently released Economic Survey, the Indian economy has been able to sustain severe external shocks such as Covid19 syndrome, Russia-Ukraine war and policy induced inflation that posed severe challenges to the global economy in the financial year 2022-23 as is reflected through its performance indices. India became the world’s fifth largest economy, measured in […]
Continue ReadingIn its recent Monetary Policy the Reserve Bank of India seems to have shifted its bias from growth back to keeping inflation within the tolerable limits. In the last two years the central bank has adopted accommodative monetary policy stance in tandem with the large scale economic stimulus and policy reforms introduced by the central […]
Continue ReadingThe central banks in most economies have twin objectives of maximizing employment/growth and keeping prices stable at around targeted levels. However, covid19 put forward an unprecedented syndrome to grapple with and most central banks, have tried to inject liquidity into their respective economies through lowering interest rates, buying bonds and easing out credit deployment and […]
Continue ReadingInfrastructure sector is fast emerging as a key driver for the Indian economy. Infrastructure is composed of public and private physical structures such as roads, railways, bridges, tunnels, water supply, sewers, electric grids, and telecommunications. In general, infrastructure has been defined as “the physical components of interrelated systems providing commodities and services essential to enable, sustain, or […]
Continue ReadingThe global economy seems to be making a gradual and uneven recovery from the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic largely on account of the extraordinary policy responses by monetary, fiscal and regulatory authorities and the continued covid19 onslaught at varied pace and forms in different parts of the world. The focus of the economic stimulus in most […]
Continue ReadingThe Indian economy is finally showing signs of recovery, as the country reels out of the nation-wide lockdown gradually and cautiously. The government of India has announced several measures during the various unlock phases in order to sustain the economy from the perils of a sudden knock down by the covid19 pandemic. The most recent […]
Continue ReadingThe various indices released by the central bank, government and independent research agencies are indicating a deceleration in economic activities compared to the previous year performance. The current scenario does not seem to be very promising .The economy was shrinking in the last fiscal already, and so if we are doing even worse than that, […]
Continue ReadingThe economic disruptions from COVID-19 have hit the MSME sector in India hard. Majority of them had issues relating to their cash-flows, business operations, and supply chains. The Government has declared wide range of measures to help the MSME sector tide over the adverse impact of the pandemic through various specific and general measures as […]
Continue ReadingRecently the International Monetary Fund has released a report that summarizes the key economic responses taken by 196 economies to limit the human and economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic based on information publicly available or provided by the respective authorities of these nations. Several governments have taken various discretionary actions such as providing tax […]
Continue ReadingThe nationwide lock-down was first announced on March 24. It was further extended 3 times to contain the contagion of covid19. Now the country is slowly opening up in tranches. Slowly and steadily the lock-down conditions may be relaxed in areas where the impact of covid19 pandemic is relatively less or even negligible. Certain states […]
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