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Financial creditors recover more under IBC, says Economic Survey

In the two years of the IBC, real estate was the top sector, with 20 per cent of the insolvency cases being registered

'Indian' agenda for Modi 2.0: Eco Survey projects 7% GDP growth in 2019-20

The Survey praised the government's performance on the provision of certain last-mile goods, combined with behavioural changes

Economic Survey 2019: Aadhaar-linked payments checked leakages

The Survey advocated creating a real-time data base of rural distress, using the MGNREGS job demand data

Economic Survey: Private tuition, doctor fee contribute most to inflation

This is an important insight into price situation in the economy, especially when inflation in health and education was more than the average general CPI

Households are spending more on discretionary items: Economic Survey

The data from the NSO shows the share of food and beverages has reduced from 33.2 per cent of private consumption in 2011-12 to 30 per cent in 2017-18 - a reduction of over three percentage points

NBFC stress poses contagion risks to growth, says Economic Survey

It warned that if the impact of the stress in the NBFC sector spilled over this year, it might lead to lower credit offtake from NBFCs

Economic Survey: Need modest real interest rates to boost pvt investment

This savings behaviour also gives a key degree of freedom to policymakers as the savers and the borrowers can be disentangled

Economic Survey bats for a 'rationalised' tax regime to boost start-ups

It also suggested a re-look at capital gains tax, levied on profits from the sale of shares in unlisted companies

Economic Survey 2019: Good suggestions on jobs, says expert

The Survey explicitly addresses the issue of a high investment rate substituting labour

Eco Survey calls for simpler minimum wage system to boost inclusive growth

Supports Code on Wages Bill, approved by Cabinet on Wednesday, to rationalise minimum wages; calls present system complex, with 1,915 wages for various job categories across states

MARKET WRAP: Indices end higher ahead of Budget 2019, Nifty below 11,950

All that happened in markets today.

Economic Survey 2019 outlines vision to achieve $5-trn economy: PM Modi

The Eco Survey analyses the trends in agricultural and industrial production, infrastructure, employment, money supply, prices, imports, exports, foreign exchange reserves ahead of Union Budget 2019

Eco Survey urges freer labour laws to create jobs, cites Rajasthan example

As per the Survey, no major labour reforms were initiated by the states in between the years 2007 and 2014

Need to raise per capita energy consumption by 2.5 times: Eco Survey 2019

The survey said India has the potential for $30 billion annual investment in renewables in next decade and even beyond that in view of its ambitious target of having 175 GW of clean energy by 2022

Eco Survey 2019: Economy moved to low level of inflation in last 5 fiscals

Retail inflation during the first month of the current fiscal stood at 2.9 per cent, down from 4.6 per cent a year ago

Economic Survey 2019 is candid about economy realities, say experts

The projection comes a day before the government is due to unveil its budget for the 2019/20 year.

Economic Survey 2019: India needs 8% growth to be $5-trn economy by FY25

The Survey, however, cautions that the country might face a challenge from an economic slowdown impacting tax collections amid rising state expenditure on the farm sector

Political stability should awaken the animal spirits of the economy: CEA

Real gross domestic product growth for the fiscal year started April 1 is projected at 7%, the Finance Ministry said in its annual Economic Survey report

Economic Survey has estimated 2019-20 GDP growth at 7%, say TV reports

General fiscal deficit in FY19 expected to be 5.8 per cent of GDP, compared with 6.4 per cent the previous year

Economic Survey likely to have 8 to 9 out-of-box ideas for long-term growth

Sources said Krishnamurthy Subramanian, the Chief Economic Advisor, may try to give not-to-common ideas on these key indices which are facing challenges