For an economy in transition, a lot would depend on corporate investment picking pace before business cycle conditions stabilise read more

Job seekers wait in a queue for interviews at a job fair in Chinchwad, Maharashtra. India’s unemployment rate rose to 7.2% last month, up from 5.9% in February 2018, according to data compiled by the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) think tank. The figures are more recent than government data and many economists regard them as more credible.

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Despite realty overall being sluggish in the last two years, the office segment has continued to grow. read more

India’s chief economic adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian said the present government’s economic reforms have contributed to an average annual growth rate of 7.3 percent over the past five years. read more

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at constant prices (2011-12) had grown at 7 per cent in October-December quarter of the previous financial year. read more

The Plan was a unique initiative in the ’40s by industry leaders inviting state control in key economic sectors without endangering their interests. A book revisits this document and its legacy read more

Many districts in each of these states are witnessing a continuing drought since last year due to regional deficiencies in the country’s main southwest monsoon (June-September) and the relatively smaller winter monsoon season (October-December) which... read more

The survey has become a political issue after the acting chairman and another member of the body that reviewed the job data resigned saying there was delay in its release. read more

Even according to the 2004-05 series, GDP growth was less than 5% in 2012-13 and 2013-14. This deceleration in growth came at a time when inflation touched double digits and the trade deficit as a percentage of GDP also breached the 10% barrier. read more

While overall demand remained subdued, expectations of a financial package for farmers in the government’s February 1 interim budget is stoking hopes for a revival in rural consumption. Here’s a breakdown of the dashboard: read more

The current government has performed worse in terms of agricultural growth than UPA-II, but it has done better in both industry and services read more

The council’s advice came at a time when the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government is under tremendous political pressure to take some concrete steps to ease the debt burdens of small and marginal farmers in the light of the 2019 general ele... read more

Speaking at the India-South Africa Business Summit in New Delhi, he said India is the world’s fastest-growing major economy and the government is committed to reforms that will further propel it. read more

The growth rate can be easily increased by 1 per cent by addressing structural problems through reforms, the council observed during its meeting Friday. read more

India is projected to grow at 7.5 per cent in 2019 and 7.7 per cent in 2020, an impressive over one percentage point ahead of China’s estimated growth of 6.2 per cent in these two years, the IMF said, attributing the pick up to the lower oil prices and... read more