In this article, we review the current government policy and various issues around disinvestment. Disinvestment and privatization are two related but different terms. They are related because both...
In an effort to streamline the borrowings of the government and achieve better cash management, the Finance Ministry in 2016 established the Public Debt Management Cell which is...
The Economic Survey for 2017-18 pointed out that the local bodies in India appear to not to be collecting the revenues from taxes to the extent they can....
The capital expenditures result in creation of physical and financial assets such as land, building, machinery, infrastructure such as road and bridges etc. Similarly, these expenditures also result...
Revenue expenditures are those expenditures of the government which are used for running the show and don’t create any productive assets and don’t reduce liabilities. These include operational...
The Reserve Bank of India in its “State Finances: A Study of Budgets of 2016-17” has provided a consolidated fiscal health of the states. This study has reflected the...
As part of Reforms, the government in recent years have established institutions for long-term pools of capital across a various sectors ranging from infrastructure to agriculture, from start-ups...
Fiscal consolidation is a process of reducing the government’s fiscal deficit and improving fiscal health of the government. In last two years, India has continued on path of...
On November 8, 2016, the Union Government had demonetised old Rs.500 and Rs. 1,000 notes from November 2016 on the recommendations of the RBI’s central board to eliminate...
In India, most part of saving is generated by the households but bulk of those savings is locked into unproductive physical assets. This article tries to make a...
