India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at the US-India Business Council’s India Ideas Summit said, Instead of inflation, red-lettered priorities for the country would of course be jobs, equitable wealth distribution and making sure India is moving on the path of growth. In this essay I am going to discuss the relationship of inflation with jobs, […]
Tag Archives: Economic growth
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Feb
Feb
Recently Mises Institute President Dr. Madhusudan Raj was invited to deliver a talk on the subject matter of Technology and Economic Growth in an event on 3D Printing technologies organized by the Vishwastratis LLP. In his talk Dr. Raj discussed the factors that are important for developing technologies and using them. He also discussed where […]
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Aug
India’s new and first female finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in an interview recently said , At this stage, what we are looking at is making sure that consumption is encouraged through various steps that we’re taking, actually get the money into the hands of people, rural, particularly. This whole DBT-based transfer of entitlements to those […]
Former governor of RBI Dr. Raghuram Rajan and MIT professor Dr. Abhijeet Banerjee have written an article, viz. Eight things India must do in 2019, in Times of India on 1st January, 2019[i] in which they present a list of eight things which according to them India, government and people collectively, must do in new […]
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Aug
The second volume of government’s Economic Survey recently flagged a great risk of faltering economic growth in India, and demanded a loose monetary policy stance from the RBI in the form of further easing of the interest rate to combat this downside risk. The report said, Forecasting “greater downside risks” to economic growth, the Survey, […]