With renewed emphasis on fiscal consolidation, it is necessary to internalise the lessons from the first phase of the implementation of the fiscal responsibility legislation. It is clear from

This year’s budget has come at a time when the economy had just begun to recover from the impact of an unprecedented global economic crisis. The Finance Minister’s challenge was to support the

The forthcoming Union Budget now just two weeks away, will be presented at an extraordinarily interesting moment. Two recent releases of data from the Central Statistical Organisation (CSO) have