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economic advisory council news

PM Modi pushes growth agenda at EAC meet amid economic pressure

Prime Minister Narendra Modi chairs a meeting with the members of the Economic Advisory Council (EAC) to the Prime Minister, in New Delhi.
Updated on Jun 07, 2026 07:00 am IST

Expenses, halt in development work: Three economists debate simultaneous elections

Expenses, halt in development work: Three economists debate simultaneous elections
Published on Sept 25, 2025 06:00 am IST

‘Bibek Debroy ji was a towering scholar’: PM Modi pays tribute to top economist

Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed condolences on the death of Bibek Debroy, PM economic advisory council chairman.
Updated on Nov 01, 2024 12:20 pm IST

Reforms in land market are need of the hour: Debroy 

Since then, the political economy has been stuck in the factor market including land, labour, and capital markets.      (HT PHOTO)
Updated on Aug 18, 2024 05:38 am IST

Three civil servants weigh in Sanyal’s controversial comments on the bureaucracy

Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM) member and economist, Sanjeev Sanyal
Published on Apr 03, 2024 12:25 pm IST

Sri Lankan envoy Moragoda stresses importance of economic integration with India

Sri Lankan high commissioner Milinda Moragoda addressed the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India (EAC-PM) at the invitation of its chairman, Bibek Debroy. (Twitter/SLinIndia)
Updated on Apr 05, 2023 09:48 pm IST

How PM’s EAC brings the focus back on the ECCE

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The report points out that effective implementation of FLN can potentially grow our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 7.39%, when the benefits are calculated over 20 years.
Published on May 11, 2024 12:01 pm IST

India’s unemployment crisis is worrying, writes Karan Thapar

While the number of people unable to find jobs has grown, the number seeking them has fallen
Updated on Nov 16, 2019 07:55 pm IST

Reconsider sovereign external borrowing

Finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, announced during the budget earlier this month that the government will consider sovereign external borrowing for raising capital.The biggest risk is that such borrowings have an in-built unpredictability because of foreign exchange movements
Updated on Jul 25, 2019 08:09 pm IST

Opinion | A demand-side view of the current economic slowdown

A section of academics and commentators, including a former chief economic advisor to the Narendra Modi government, think that the economy is doing worse than what the official statistics tell us.
Updated on Jul 07, 2019 12:25 pm IST

PM advisory body’s caustic rebuttal on GDP rate row, says more coming

The Economic Advisory Council said will examine in detail the estimates made in Arvind Subramanian’s paper.
Updated on Jun 12, 2019 05:32 pm IST

Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s remark on minorities an insult: Government

India on Saturday rejected Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s remarks that members of Indian minorities are treated like “second class citizens”, saying they were an “egregious insult” to all Indians.
Published on Feb 09, 2019 11:37 pm IST

2019 Budget Reactions: New report will show ‘substantial increase in jobs’, says PM Modi’s economic advisor Bibek Debroy

The Narendra Modi-led government is pushing self-employment and entrepreneurship through its programmes, chairperson of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council (PMEAC) Bibek Debroy has said.
Updated on Feb 01, 2019 02:34 pm IST

‘Address farm sector challenges, create jobs’: PM advisory panel to government

The government must continue its emphasis on social sector interventions, an official statement issued by the council said.
Updated on Jan 25, 2019 11:53 pm IST

India’s growth to remain in 7-7.5% range in next few years: PM advisory panel

A labourer works at the construction of a residential complex at Noida.
Updated on Jan 25, 2019 05:54 pm IST

Why the farmer suicide debate is counter-productive to understanding India’s agrarian crisis?

In the discourse on agriculture, fo farmer suicides are cited as the biggest proof of the agrarian crisis in the country by a large section
Updated on Dec 27, 2018 07:46 am IST

Day after RBI governer Urjit Patel’s exit, economist Surjit Bhalla announces resignation from EAC-PM

Eminent economist and columnist Surjit Bhalla.
Updated on Dec 11, 2018 10:23 am IST

Ban cheese imports? Pakistan discusses out-of-the-box ideas to avoid IMF bailout

Pakistani economic advisors discussed banning imports of luxury cars, smartphones and cheese in a wide-ranging strategy session on how to avoid seeking a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a senior government advisor said.
Updated on Sept 10, 2018 09:37 am IST

Another economist resigns from Pakistan advisory council over exclusion of Ahmadi scholar

Pakistani Islamists protest against an appointment of a minority Ahmadi Muslim as an adviser to the government, in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 7, 2018.
Updated on Sept 08, 2018 11:43 pm IST

PM Imran Khan ropes in foreign experts to rebuild Pakistan’s debt-ridden economy

In this photo released by the Press Information Department, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, center, attends a briefing at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Aug. 24, 2018.
Updated on Sept 02, 2018 07:25 pm IST