Page 12 - Economy

India's competition magnifies as Sri Lanka, China join hands to take on IFC

China is present in a big way in Sri Lanka despite earning criticism for the unviable cost of signature projects

Start-ups play crucial role, giving growth impetus to economy: KPMG report

The report said the golden triangle of government, private sector and academia are important players who can provide the impetus needed to grow the start-up eco system

Ever heard of an economy growing at 86%? IMF just identified one such

South America's only English-speaking nation owes the anticipated windfall to offshore oil deposits discovered in 2015

India's growth rate to fall to 6%, will recover to 7.2% in 2022: World Bank

In 2018-19, it stood at 6.8%, down from 7.2% in the 2017-18 financial year

Why India's advertising market is losing space: Explained in four charts

Despite being a consumption-led economy, India's advertising market contributes just about 0.38 per cent to the country's GDP

Time to do away with fiscal responsibility law? No virtue in stipulating 3%

Target years for reaching the desired fiscal deficit are pushed back; and when FMs are unable to get close to targets, they fudge the books and push the burden on to hapless PSUs, writes T N Ninan

100 days of Modi 2.0: Glut of bad news on economy belies reform hopes

Days after the new Modi government was sworn-in, the benchmark indices climbed to all-time highs

Old troubles mar new term: A status check of Modi govt's 100 days

The first-quarter GDP data showed the economy losing steam

The sociology of the slowdown

The last economics guy to take sociology into account was Milton Friedman, says the author

From Shanghai to Dhaka, Asia should fix its megacities, not move them

In Indonesia, land-use controls were aggressively deregulated in the 1980s while entire sectors of the economy were opened up to direct investment

Moody's cuts India GDP growth forecast for 2019 to 6.2% from 6.8%

For 2020 calendar year, it reduced the estimate by a similar measure to 6.7 per cent

Returns from consumption stocks could be muted, says Kenneth Andrade

On the liquidity side, the consensus still favours India to be one of the faster growing economies across the world, says Andrade

Modi 2.0's new clothes

The economy has been slowing down for over a year now, but Mr Modi and his government had been in (election-induced) denial

Letter to BS: Pro-capital economy which balances public sector is essential

The public sector must be reduced whenever it becomes a fiscal and administrative burden like Air India

India 43rd most competitive economy, Singapore tops the list: Report

Singapore has moved up to the top, from the third position last year, while the US has slipped to the third place in the 2019 edition of the IMD World Competitiveness Rankings

Central bankers to stage dovish view as economic data continues to vex

Here's the weekly rundown of the other key economic events.

The flawed narrative that India's a land of villages hurts growth prospects

The resulting misallocation of resources is making India's blossoming urban areas well-nigh unlivable

Investment climate in India has improved, govt capex picking up: CARE

Overall capex of the government in the first 7 months of the year was Rs 1.77 trillion as against Rs 1.62 trillion last year, says a CARE report

Transfer of RBI revaluation reserves can give deflationary shock to economy

Such a transfer can deliver an unintended cataclysmic deflationary shock to the real economy, driving interest rates way too high, and leading to a massive collapse in output and employment

Govt will meet fiscal deficit goals, fresh steps on cards to narrow CAD: FM

FM says the way crude oil prices are going up, there will be some adverse impact