Ila Patnaik
The UPA government has been claiming that it has done well on fiscal consolidation.
Indians living abroad send dollars into India in two ways. One, through NRI deposits...
RBI has still to wake up to the reality of financial globalisation
Today RBI will address the short term problem. Question for long term: How to design monetary policy to stabilise the economy?
Several markets, including India’s, have plunged amid fears about the US economy. ILA PATNAIK tracks the current crisis and its implications for India
The latest data for industrial production shows a slowdown in growth.
India has witnessed a capital surge in recent months. Even though there was a reversal...
Drawing on a wide range of parameters from the CMIE databases, it is possible...
Earlier this week, the US Federal Reserve Bank cut the Fed’s benchmark interest rate for the third time since September.
As the price of crude oil inches towards $100 a barrel, a Group of Ministers will debate whether India should raise domestic petroleum prices.
Is inflation now comfortably under control? Recent media headlines say that there has been a sharp drop in the inflation...
The US Federal Reserve decided to cut interest rates once again in its meeting this week. Last month, when the Fed cut...
The monetary policy announcement for the coming quarter will take place amid great confusion about what the RBI is trying to achieve.
The RBI has been buying large amounts of dollars in the foreign exchange market in order to prevent rupee appreciation.
Stock markets responded sharply to a SEBI proposal to restrict foreign capital flows in Indian equity markets...
If and when the US economy goes into recession, what will be the impact on India? ILA PATNAIK argues 2 per cent of India’s GDP will be directly affec
Inflation, now at just above three per cent, seems well under control. Why, then, is the consumer not cheerful still? Ila Patnaik looks at the data an
Brokers are upbeat about US’s interest rate cut. Economists are not. Why? And who’s right?
Which states in India are attracting the most investment? How are the breakaway BIMARU states doing financially?
Is there a slowdown in export growth? Is there a significant relationship between exports and the exchange rate?
Ila Patnaik mines the data and
Tax collections have registered a remarkable growth in recent years. There is a marked increase in the corporate tax to GDP ratio. ILA PATNAIK sums up
The last four weeks have seen very sharp movements in stock prices around the world.
Wrong lesson from loan troubles in US: capitalism is risky. Right lesson: financial innovation helps the poor
RBI’s avoiding the big monetary issue: cost of keeping rupee weak. So government must step in
Indian stock markets have fallen sharply in recent days in line with volatile global markets. The source of trouble this time is news from the US hous
