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Disinvestment and Mobilization of Resources

In this article, we review the current government policy and various issues around disinvestment. Disinvestment and privatization are...

📅 July 25, 2017

Proposed Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA): Requirement, Features, Issues

In an effort to streamline the borrowings of the government and achieve better cash management, the Finance Ministry...

📅 July 24, 2017

Mobilization of Resources for Local Bodies: Various Issues

The Economic Survey for 2017-18 pointed out that the local bodies in India appear to not to be...

📅 July 23, 2017

Trends & Issues in Capital Expenditure

The capital expenditures result in creation of physical and financial assets such as land, building, machinery, infrastructure such...

📅 July 22, 2017

Trends and Issues in Revenue Expenditure of Government

Revenue expenditures are those expenditures of the government which are used for running the show and don’t create...

📅 July 21, 2017

Deficits of States: Trends and Implications for Resource Mobilization

The Reserve Bank of India in its “State Finances: A Study of Budgets of 2016-17” has provided a consolidated...

📅 July 20, 2017

Various Entities Launched In Recent Times for Mobilization of Resources

As part of Reforms, the government in recent years have established institutions for long-term pools of capital across...

📅 July 19, 2017

Fiscal Consolidation & FRBM Act: Various Issues

Fiscal consolidation is a process of reducing the government’s fiscal deficit and improving fiscal health of the government....

📅 July 18, 2017

Demonetisation and Its impacts on Tax Revenues

On November 8, 2016, the Union Government had demonetised old Rs.500 and Rs. 1,000 notes from November 2016...

📅 July 17, 2017

Low ratio of Financial Assets in Household Savings and Resource Mobilization

In India, most part of saving is generated by the households but bulk of those savings is locked...

📅 July 16, 2017

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