New WPI is an ill-conceived moveThe official move to construct a weekly index taking into account only primary articles and fuel items — ostensibly to track the price movements in agricultural commodities and petroleum products — and publish each month a comprehensive wholesale price index, incorporating the index for manufactures — strains credulity.
October 21, 2009
Welter of inflation rates confuse moreThe technical report of the working group headed by Abhijit Sen has been with the government for quite some time but only now, the Cabinet nod has been forthcoming.
October 20, 2009
June IIP growth a robust 7.8%But Q1 incremental growth in output is at 3.7% compared with 5.3% in the previous year.
August 12, 2009
The worst is yet to come on pulsesPrices set to rocket with monsoon cloud over kharif.
August 7, 2009
Miles to go before we can restThe Centre’s foregone revenue is nearly half of the tax mop-up; phasing out incentives, exemptions is imperative.
June 24, 2009
Rural folk reel under price onslaughtThe consumer price index numbers for March 2009 convey a tale far different from what is portrayed by the official wholesale price index.
May 15, 2009
March IIP shrinks 2.3%, the worst show in 15 yearsIndustrial output during March 2009, as gauged by the index of industrial production, declined by 2.3% on a year-on-year basis.
May 13, 2009
Why not deregulate deposit rates?Daily interest on savings bank deposits a good move, but more needs to be done.
April 26, 2009
A deflationary era beckonsBarring a miracle, this time next week, we may be celebrating the advent of a rare spell of deflation in our economy.
March 20, 2009
Why is wholesale inflation at 3% and retail over 10%?Blame the administered pricing mechanism for petrogoods.
March 6, 2009
Vote-on-account: What’s it, why is it needed nowA vote-on - account would ensure that funds would be at disposal to run the various departments otherwise, there would be an administrative paralysis.
February 14, 2009
Fixed cap formation set for new high at 34%In tune with expectations, the growth of real gross domestic product is officially forecast to decelerate to 7.1% during the current fiscal year from 9% recorded in 2007-08.
February 10, 2009
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