The Union Budget for 2025-26, presented on February 1, 2025, has sparked considerable interest and debate among various stakeholders, including individuals, businesses, and government entities. This budget aims to address the pressing economic challenges while...
French President Emmanuel Macron is pushing to water down the eurozone’s budget criteria. But some economists don’t think that’s a good idea. Less than a year before France’s next presidential elections, President Emmanuel Macron seems...
The Annual financial statement-the Union Budget, as stated in article 112 of the constitution of India, presented on the first day of February by the Finance Minister (FM), Mrs Nirmala Sitharaman. It was the first...
Amid the historic slowdown in the major sectors of the economy, honourable Finance Minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman presented the union budget for financial year 2021 (FY21) on 1st February 2020. From agriculture to private investment,...
Nirmala Sitharaman, FM presented all-encompassing budget covering almost all sectors – infra, agriculture, education, health care, skill development etc. The full-time budget of Modi V2 Government was riding high on people’s and industry’s expectations. Sops...
Italy’s populist government has spooked Brussels with an ambitious draft budget after vowing to end austerity. DW’s Bernd Riegert explains how the country plans to have its cake and eat it. After weeks of tug-of-war...
United States Dec 2017 Monetary Policy Linkage to India’s monetary policy and its aftermath on the budget 2018-19.: United States had in December Monetary Policy, 2017 increased the Fed rate from 1/4 to 1/2 percent as...
Buying a home is not as simple as it sounds. It needs a lot of homework and negotiation of mind and money to be done. If you are one of the buyers and planning to...
The first criterion an economist applies is, how appropriate a budget is to the macroeconomic situation. If it is inflationary, the budget must deflate, and vice versa. The current supply-demand balance is benign by Indian...
Haseeb Drabu was a journalist once; he and I were colleagues some 15 years ago. Since then, he has been banker, bureaucrat business advisor, and much else. He has just become finance minister of Jammu...
The revision of the base year for estimating GDP of India has dramatically transformed the way we look at our economic growth rates. According to the new estimates, the year 2013-14, the last year when...
The budget consists of sixteen documents. Commentators have to say what they can within hours of its presentation. So they concentrate on what the finance minister says, which is just about 10,000 words and is...