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Samiran Chakraborty

Samiran Chakraborty

Articles by Samiran Chakraborty

Buffering the blow: Policy responses amid the war

Since the current disruption has been more acute in natural gas, countries with a heavier gas dependency face significantly greater vulnerabilities. (AP)

Updated on Apr 6, 2026 16:23 IST

India’s big growth pivot: From boosting to building

The government has clearly indicated its preference for a revamped manufacturing-led export growth strategy for India which will play out over a longer period. (REUTERS)

Updated on Feb 10, 2026 15:00 IST

Potential targets for the Union Budget

FILE PHOTO: A general view of a market in New Delhi, India, September 6, 2023. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo (REUTERS)

Updated on Jan 28, 2025 14:48 IST

Fiscal consolidation, with a reform vision

Noida, India- July 23, 2024: People watching the live telecast of Union Budget 2024, at a shop in Sector 51. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented Union Budget of the Modi government, in Noida, India, on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. (Photo by Sunil Ghosh / Hindustan Times)

Updated on Jul 25, 2024 15:35 IST

Adding arrows to new regime’s policy quiver

As we neared the end of 2022-23, there was near-consensus on real growth. The cited figure was between 6.8 and 7%. There is less consensus for 2023-24 and the medium-term. An optimist will say 6.5%, a pessimist 5.5%. An enthusiastic optimist will place it at 7%, a dire pessimist at 5%. While that’s a fairly broad band, there is no denying the Indian economy’s growth resilience. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jun 9, 2024 19:58 IST

Monetary policy has an inflation dilemma

India’s recent inflation has been a tale of two prices. Food inflation remains elevated at 7.6% but core inflation has dropped sharply to 3.6% in January 2024

Updated on Feb 26, 2024 06:40 IST

Building the backdrop for lower interest rates

New Delhi, India - Feb. 1, 2024: Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Minister of Finance along with Bhagwat Karad and Pankaj Chaudhary MOS Finance leaves the Finance Ministry carrying the Finance Budget ahead of the presentation of interim Budget 2024 in Parliament at North Block in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, February 1, 2024. (Photo by Sanchit Khanna/ Hindustan Times)

Updated on Feb 5, 2024 02:30 IST

Is there more room for competitive populism?

Competitive populism seems to have taken centrestage with not much discussion about its fiscal ramifications

Updated on Nov 15, 2023 17:21 IST

Inflation fears throw up policy dilemmas

Tomatoes may have hogged the recent headlines, but the recent vegetable price rise is broad-based (PTI)

Updated on Aug 28, 2023 18:56 IST

Modest MSP hike is a tightrope act by govt

The burning question is how to think about the degree of MSP increase, and where it stands vis-à-vis meeting the twin objectives of boosting rural incomes but not being inflationary.

Updated on Jun 13, 2023 16:06 IST

₹2,000 note move may have marginal impact

Even if 10-20% of the <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>2,000 notes are deposited, the banking system liquid-ity will improve by <span class='webrupee'>₹</span>35,000-70,000 crore. This would imply that the RBI is less likely to change its monetary policy stance in June (SANTOSH KUMAR/HT PHOTO)

Updated on May 24, 2023 13:42 IST

Budget: Focus on the quality of expenditure

To start with, high-frequency growth indicators are doing reasonably well. Our combined index from these indicators, called Growth Activity Tracker for India (GATI), shows that even after a slight moderation in the last couple of months, the growth momentum is now close to the pre-pandemic average. (Sonu Mehta/HT PHOTO)

Updated on Jan 30, 2023 14:34 IST

In the inflation fight, a liquidity conundrum

The Reserve Bank of India should be conscious of creating enough liquidity to ensure money supply growth broadly tracks nominal GDP growth (HT)

Updated on Oct 19, 2022 14:33 IST

Farmer terms of trade: A nimble balancing act

Farmers also face another kind of ‘terms of trade’ challenge: Between food prices and non-food prices. This indicator has been worsening for farmers, but over the last six months, the trend has been somewhat arrested.

Updated on Jun 1, 2022 13:19 IST

What to expect from this year’s Union Budget

The perennial dilemma of the budget — between spending to stimulate growth and maintaining fiscal discipline — is more accentuated in a year such as this when economic recovery has been uneven and the fiscal situation, precarious. (MINT)

Updated on Jan 28, 2022 15:23 IST

Budget 2020: Nirmala Sitharaman will have to make difficult choices

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman addresses a press conference, New Delhi, January 28, 2020

Updated on Jan 28, 2020 14:10 IST

Recovery takes time

Updated on Feb 26, 2013 17:56 IST

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