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https://www.cenfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Micron-Deal-whose-profit-whose-loss.mp3 When a deal takes place between two parties, it is supposed to be fruitful for both. But the recent deal with Micron, signed on PM Modi’s visit to the US and initially hailed as a major technological breakthroug...

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July 7, 2023

Jayati Ghosh

Wealth tax: Keep it simple, tax the 177 dollar billionaires in India

Jayati Ghosh India remains a low-middle-income country, and the bulk of the population ranks low compared to most countries in most indicators of conditions of life. Yet the country ranks third in the number of dollar billionaires, just behind the United States and China, which have significantly hi...

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July 7, 2023

Prabhat Patnaik

Building a rights-based welfare State in India

Prabhat Patnaik Political formations in India have generally come to accept the idea of economic transfers to the poor. The Congress made it a major plank in the recent Karnataka elections. Even the BJP, which favours transfers to the rich in the name of “development” and debunks transfers to the po...

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July 3, 2023

Thomas Franco

Time to Wind up National Company Law Tribunals

Thomas Franco Random Reflection The Financial Stability Report (FSR) released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has certain very damaging revelations. It is surprising that RBI gave thumbs up to them and claimed that non-performing assets (NPAs) have come down. The FSR says, since Dec 2016, 6571 Co...

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June 14, 2023

CFA Admin

Bank Unions AIBOC, AIBEA Oppose RBI’s Decision to Allow Compromise Settlement for Wilful Defaulters

All India Bank Officers’ Confederation and All India Bank Employees Association, criticised the recent move by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to allow Banks/lenders to settle loans of wilful defaulters under compromise settlement. The unions said that the recently released RBI’s “framework for comp...

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June 13, 2023

Dipa Sinha

Inequality amplifies malnutrition crisis in India

Dipa Sinha That child malnutrition levels in India are high and slow to improve, even when compared with neighbouring countries such as Bangladesh, does not need belabouring. However, in discussions on the problem of malnutrition in India, inequality does not get its due. First, there is th...

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May 29, 2023

Thomas Franco

What is the real intention of withdrawing Rs 2000 notes?

The RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das is the only Governor without an economics background; he studied history. He was the Secretary, of Economic Affairs on November 8, 2016, when demonetisation was announced by the Prime Minister instead of the RBI Governor. Now on 3-year extension as RBI Governor, he h...

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May 26, 2023

Amitanshu Verma

RBI Report on Currency and Finance: Still a long way off from environmental, social and climate safeguards

The Reserve Bank of India released its “Report On Currency and Finance 2022-23 :Towards A Greener Cleaner India” earlier this month. The report is one of the most comprehensive attempts by the central regulator to discuss the responsibility of the banking and finance sector to the plethora of challe...

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June 3, 2024

Haripriya B Harshan

How long will BSNL be able to take the blows and remain in the ring?

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) intends to launch its 4G network nationwide very soon, this year. The company is currently testing 4G on 200 towers in three districts of Punjab: Ferozepur, Pathankot, and Amritsar. BSNL has issued advance purchase orders worth Rs. 15,700 crores to Tata Consultanc...

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May 3, 2023

Joe Athialy

Transforming the World of Finance

What will help the world of finance/economy to transform? While I do not have an answer on that, I want to share why the economy/finance needs a serious and radical transformation. Or an understanding of where we stand today is fundamental to thinking about what needs to be changed. It’s an un...

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Indian Economy

Micron deal: Whose profit, whose loss?

Wealth tax: Keep it simple, tax the 177 dollar billionaires in India

Building a rights-based welfare State in India

Time to Wind up National Company Law Tribunals

Bank Unions AIBOC, AIBEA Oppose RBI’s Decision to Allow Compromise Settlement for Wilful Defaulters

Inequality amplifies malnutrition crisis in India

What is the real intention of withdrawing Rs 2000 notes?

RBI Report on Currency and Finance: Still a long way off from environmental, social and climate safeguards

How long will BSNL be able to take the blows and remain in the ring?

Transforming the World of Finance

Micron deal: Whose profit, whose loss?

Wealth tax: Keep it simple, tax the 177 dollar billionaires in India

Building a rights-based welfare State in India

Time to Wind up National Company Law Tribunals

Bank Unions AIBOC, AIBEA Oppose RBI’s Decision to Allow Compromise Settlement for Wilful Defaulters

Inequality amplifies malnutrition crisis in India

What is the real intention of withdrawing Rs 2000 notes?

RBI Report on Currency and Finance: Still a long way off from environmental, social and climate safeguards

How long will BSNL be able to take the blows and remain in the ring?

Transforming the World of Finance