This is the first drop in the last seven years, said the report published by Capgemini on Tuesday. read more

A higher tax buoyancy number indicates that either the nature of growth is more revenue generating or the tax-net is more effective at dealing with tax evasion. The reverse can be inferred if the tax-buoyancy number goes down. read more

Key to successful economic transformation lies in having a holistic picture about the challenges facing the economy and then synchronising specific policy responses with the right opportunities for making these interventions read more

Did the inertia of the budgetary process sabotage the claimed novelty of the budget? Did it miss a trick? read more

The Economic Survey gives a wealth of information, both in terms of analysis and statistics, about the economy. Here are four key themes that will help us gain a better understanding of what lies ahead for the next year. read more

“It appears to me that the government, speaking through the Economic Survey, is pessimistic about the economy,” he said soon after finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the survey in Parliament. read more

Top gainers in the Sensex pack included Bharti Airtel, Tata Motors, IndusInd Bank, Kotak Bank, Hero MotoCorp, Asian Paints and PowerGrid, ending up to 2.53 per cent higher. read more

The Government has projected India’s real GDP growth for the year 2019-20 at 7 per cent on the back of anticipated pickup in the growth of investment and consumption. read more

A day before the Union Budget, Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the Economic Survey 2018-19 in Parliament on Thursday read more

Of the $1 trillion of infrastructure investment to nudge annual GDP growth higher by just half a percentage point in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second five-year term, at least 55% will have to come from public resources. read more

The GSP allowed Indian traders and exporters duty-free access to supply certain items such as imitation jewellery and leather articles (other than footwear) into the US market. read more

In a research paper, Subramanian, who stepped down last year, said India’s economic growth rate has been overestimated by around 2.5 percentage points between 2011-12 and 2016-17. read more

A comparison of passenger car sales growth and net perception on non-essential spending shows that the two move together more closely and have achieved their maximum and minimum values in almost the same periods. read more

Farmers suffering distress or the unemployed young chose to consciously overlook their difficulties in the belief that Modi, if given a second chance, would take care of their problems read more

India’s economic growth suffered a third straight quarterly fall in the first three months of 2019 to 5.8 percent, according to government figures. read more