The important question that one is looking to analyse is whether the targets set under the FRBM Act were met. Authors Diya and Aliva provide a brief on India’s journey with tackling high fiscal deficits.
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Carbon tax: A solution to correct climate change
Through this article Akshita Chembolu, the author, delves into the reasons for the imposition of carbon tax, the effects of its implementation and if there are any negatives to this policy.
The Budget After Demonetisation: Will the Government Reform India’s Tax Structure?
Demonetisation was meant to widen India’s tax base and increase our abysmally low tax-GDP ratio. The government could further this aim in more concrete ways
The Commodity Price Shock in Venezuela
The state of Venezuela currently finds itself in a beleaguered state. The downturn in global commodity prices, particularly oil (Venezuela’s chief export), has hit the Venezuelan economy hard. In this article, Achyut Mishra attempts to analyse the relationship between a Commodity Price Shock (henceforth CPS) and various macroeconomic indicators of Venezuelan economy.
The Mirage of Inclusive Growth
In this article, Deepanshu Mohan speaks of the need to unlearn the theoretical neo-liberalist idea of inclusive growth, to delve into a more pragmatic approach where growth and redistribution are hinged on to each other, and how government interference is imperative to purge growth inequalities that stemmed out from the pro-market policies.
Myth of “Value Added” in Indian Industry: Has India Missed the Bus?
Sourish Dutta is an MPhil Student of Applied Economics at Centre for Development Studies, JNU According to the ASI database, although the flow of “Net
The ABCs of Agent Based Computational Economics
The unrealistic assumptions that economic models are based on have rendered many models insufficient and impractical in application in the real world. Aishwarya Ketkar offers
Don’t Understand Statistics? Wanna Bet?
Statistical testing is not that difficult! Let Dr. Stephen P. Holden guide you through the murky territory of statistics, only to discover that it isn’t
Research Steve Jobs’ style to find Smash-Hits — Without Statistical Significance!
Read why Stephen P Holden feels that Steve Jobs was right about customers’ lack of self-insight, but wrong about the value of research. It’s
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