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A primer on required tax policy
(2002-10-18)
In the last two years there has been a decline in the tax/GDP ratio but this year the finance minister intends to reverse that mainly through mopping up more corporation and income and service taxes and an improvement in ...
Budget 2004-05: sharper instruments and objectives
(2004-10-25)
This is after all a coalition budget and so unless the finance
minister is strong and has strategic dominance over the coalition,
large debt and deficits are inevitable. However even within those
constraints, there ...
The pervasiveness of self-employment
(2003-10-21)
Ageing populations with increased life expectancy, low morality rates, and decreasing and colatile returns in financial markets have made old age financial security difficult. Further, escalating costs of the pension system ...
The critics are not Keynesian enough: fiscal responsibility and growth
(2006-10-29)
It is because fiscal policy-makers may not respect intertemporal
constraints that it is better to bind ourselves to rules. Also, in an
intertemporal set-up, lowering fiscal deficits can be expansionary
Budget 2006: outlays, inequality and growth
(2006-10-27)
The fiscal deficit is being contained by a decrease in interest
payments and capital expenditures, along with a secular rise in
direct taxes. However, the reduction in capital expenditures,
mainly in infrastructure, is ...
Hitching employment to a growth strategy: services bulge and productivity growth
(2005-10-27)
An employment-oriented growth strategy requires a strategy of public investment
in agriculture and promoting new technology, including the inputs embodied in those
technologies. The bulge of employment in services is ...
How well Have public sector banks done? a note
(2010-10-18)
The efficiency of the public sector banks has declined during the 1990s when
measured by the spread/working fund ratio. Though the turnover/employee ratio of the public
sector banks improved, the ratio for the private ...
Resolving stressed assets in public sector banks
(Mint, 2017-05-29)
A theory of tax evasion in developing countries
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-04)
The literature on tax evasion assumes that taxpayers wish to evade their taxes entirely and the only reason they do not do so is that there is some non-zero probability of being caught by the government. Also, it is assumed ...
Now is the best time to create solutions for Bharat
(MINT, 2018-05-18)