| dc.description.abstract | In a brief comment on the Union Budget 2000, the article looks at the
accumulated baggage over the decades that is needed to be dealt with. While
acknowledging it as a politically correct budget, the article argues that forces
beyond the control of a Finance Minister are operating that make it difficult to
initiate rational steps, or even begin a dialogue to build a consensus in the
country, for fiscal recovery. Thus, at best, the Union Budget 2000 only highlights
the problems facing the nation without grappling with any one of them. | en |
