Abhishek Waghmare

Healthy revenues, failing disinvestment, and rise in nominal GDP may take fiscal deficit from the Budgeted 6.8% of GDP to anywhere between 6.9% and 7.3%

Trustworthy data, then, should be a resolution for 2022

The low interest rate phase hasn't really helped investors or investment; Covid-19 was actually a supply side shock

Five years after demonetisation, the share of high-denomination currency notes in the economy remains the same as it was in the pre-demonetisation period

Are the four near-term targets very ambitious? Business Standard maps the country's performance so far, on these fronts

With revenues set to exceed the annual target by Rs 2 trillion, a softer revenue loss that boosts consumption will provide immense relief, especially to lower income households

There will always be a gap between actual inflation and household expectation. Yet the latter is broadly indicative of trends and is a critical input for controlling prices

Debit cards aren't just for the affluent--two-thirds of Indians use them. There is little reason not to track their use to predict economic growth

Govt's food storekeeper is procuring twice the quantity national welfare schemes need. It is aware of the problem, and may soon find newer ways to dispose available stocks

India's biggest insurer is losing market share and faltering on growth like never before, as it prepares to go public through an IPO

Debt grew fastest for the urban households that sustain on self-employment

Analysis of 2019 study shows clear decline in the dominance of APMCs and rise of local traders in agricultural marketing

Farmer households earned more from wages than from cultivation in 2019, as the latter stagnated

While there was no need for subsidy in the low-oil-price phase of 2020, LPG prices have zoomed in 2021. But the Centre has not transferred subsidy at any point this year

An analysis of 17 states shows that while states' revenue spending in April-June 2021 was 14% higher than the same period in 2019, own revenues were 8% lower

Do you think the government will bite the bullet and cut excise duties?

In a quarter affected by the second wave, India saw record personal income tax collection at nearly twice that collected in Q1FY21, and 26% more than Q1FY20

Despite this achievement, the target seems Sisyphean. These 80 million-odd households make up 41 per cent of rural families

A third of villages don't have piped supply infra, another third does, but tap provision work to households hasn't yet begun. Govt has promised to spend Rs 50,000 cr to expedite the scheme

While IPCC says that warming by at least 1.2 degree Celsius seems inevitable by end of century, 0.6 degree Celsius rise over a century has increased the frequency of extreme rains and floods