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Demonetisation caused Indians needless pain. Modi must accept moral responsibility for it

On November 9, 2016, when journalists approached me as the senior vice president of the All India Bank Officers’ Confe...

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No country for young workers: How demonetisation has hurt a generation of Indians

The disruption that the demonetisation of high-value currency notes on November 8, 2016, caused to people’s lives, live...

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The spectacle of organised ignorance: Why Indians have chosen to forget the horror of demonetisation

It has been five years since demonetisation, the surgical strike on November 8, 2016, on India’s high-value currency no...

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Demonetisation left RBI’s reputation in tatters. What could future policy makers learn from this?

While the entire Indian economy was disrupted by the demonetisation exercise announced on November 8, 2016, removing hi...

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5 years later, it’s even more clear that demonetisation was a disaster for India

The demonetisation of high-denomination currency notes on November 8, 2016, created a nightmare for citizens that laste...

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Railways Stare at Privatisation: World Bank offers to help National Rail Plan

Infrastructure Finance Update, September 2021 As the Indian Railways are staring at getting privatised under the Nationa...

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The Futility of Per Capita Comparisons in Unequal Societies

A few months ago, a news made headlines, doing rounds in the social media about how it was a matter of much shame that I...

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With National Monetization (Privatization) Pipeline Govt would be virtually extending the lease in perpetuity: Thomas Isaac

Political representatives and academics at a national convention expose the real intention behind NMP “The governm...

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Hope this Meteoric Rise does not Become a Bubble

The Indian stock market is booming. The share price index is repeatedly breaking records. Investors are very happy with ...

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RBI’s “Consultative Document on Regulation of Micro-Finance” Part -2

RBI vide its June 14, 2021 press release has issued a 30 page “Consultative Document on Regulation of Microfinance” (hen...

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November 15, 2021

Thomas Franco

Demonetisation caused Indians needless pain. Modi must accept moral responsibility for it

On November 9, 2016, when journalists approached me as the senior vice president of the All India Bank Officers’ Confederation for a comment regarding the demonetisation announcement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi the previous night, I said we would face the challenge and co-operate with the gove...

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November 12, 2021

Rosa Abraham & Anand Srivastava

No country for young workers: How demonetisation has hurt a generation of Indians

The disruption that the demonetisation of high-value currency notes on November 8, 2016, caused to people’s lives, livelihoods and the Indian economy is still fresh in many people’s memories. The direct impact on the informal economy that largely operated in cash, and the consequent ripple effects ...

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November 15, 2021

Satyaki Roy

The spectacle of organised ignorance: Why Indians have chosen to forget the horror of demonetisation

It has been five years since demonetisation, the surgical strike on November 8, 2016, on India’s high-value currency notes. With hindsight, it’s clear that the high-decibel crusade supposedly aimed at unearthing black money and suffocating terrorist funding ended with a whimper. Instead of the redi...

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November 15, 2021

T R Bhat

Demonetisation left RBI’s reputation in tatters. What could future policy makers learn from this?

While the entire Indian economy was disrupted by the demonetisation exercise announced on November 8, 2016, removing high-value currency notes overnight, it simultaneously stirred a serious controversy on the role of Reserve Bank of India as the principal regulator of money supply in India. In unde...

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November 15, 2021

Arun Kumar

5 years later, it’s even more clear that demonetisation was a disaster for India

The demonetisation of high-denomination currency notes on November 8, 2016, created a nightmare for citizens that lasted several months. Long queues formed outside the banks and ATMs to obtain swap denotified currency notes for new ones so that life could continue. This situation persisted even bey...

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October 19, 2021

Shivani Dwivedi

Railways Stare at Privatisation: World Bank offers to help National Rail Plan

Infrastructure Finance Update, September 2021 As the Indian Railways are staring at getting privatised under the National Monetisation Pipeline, the World Bank has outlined the role it can play as India looks to fund its ambitious National Rail Plan over the next 30 years, which envisages almost 8,0...

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October 1, 2021

Nishank

The Futility of Per Capita Comparisons in Unequal Societies

A few months ago, a news made headlines, doing rounds in the social media about how it was a matter of much shame that India had fallen behind Bangladesh on the metric of Per Capita Income. In the fiscal year 2020-21, India’s per capita income stood at $1,947 while Bangladesh’s per capita income was...

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September 22, 2021

CFA Admin

With National Monetization (Privatization) Pipeline Govt would be virtually extending the lease in perpetuity: Thomas Isaac

Political representatives and academics at a national convention expose the real intention behind NMP “The government is claiming they are giving only temporary rights for certain duration (through the National Monetisation Pipeline). The key question is how the government will repay this inve...

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August 17, 2021

Arun Kumar

Hope this Meteoric Rise does not Become a Bubble

The Indian stock market is booming. The share price index is repeatedly breaking records. Investors are very happy with this. Around 30 stocks have given 100 per cent returns since February 2021. The enthusiasm of investors can be gauged from the fact that in the first two months of the current fina...

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August 6, 2021

Sanjeev Chandorkar

RBI’s “Consultative Document on Regulation of Micro-Finance” Part -2

RBI vide its June 14, 2021 press release has issued a 30 page “Consultative Document on Regulation of Microfinance” (henceforth “Document”) seeking comments from public at large. First part of the “general comments / feedback” was published in an earlier issue. This Second part addresses a fe...

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Demonetisation caused Indians needless pain. Modi must accept moral responsibility for it

No country for young workers: How demonetisation has hurt a generation of Indians

The spectacle of organised ignorance: Why Indians have chosen to forget the horror of demonetisation

Demonetisation left RBI’s reputation in tatters. What could future policy makers learn from this?

5 years later, it’s even more clear that demonetisation was a disaster for India

Railways Stare at Privatisation: World Bank offers to help National Rail Plan

The Futility of Per Capita Comparisons in Unequal Societies

With National Monetization (Privatization) Pipeline Govt would be virtually extending the lease in perpetuity: Thomas Isaac

Hope this Meteoric Rise does not Become a Bubble

RBI’s “Consultative Document on Regulation of Micro-Finance” Part -2

Demonetisation caused Indians needless pain. Modi must accept moral responsibility for it

No country for young workers: How demonetisation has hurt a generation of Indians

The spectacle of organised ignorance: Why Indians have chosen to forget the horror of demonetisation

Demonetisation left RBI’s reputation in tatters. What could future policy makers learn from this?

5 years later, it’s even more clear that demonetisation was a disaster for India

Railways Stare at Privatisation: World Bank offers to help National Rail Plan

The Futility of Per Capita Comparisons in Unequal Societies

With National Monetization (Privatization) Pipeline Govt would be virtually extending the lease in perpetuity: Thomas Isaac

Hope this Meteoric Rise does not Become a Bubble

RBI’s “Consultative Document on Regulation of Micro-Finance” Part -2

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