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Will there be New Fiscal Rules in the Union Budget 2025-26?

26/12/2024

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India aims to reduce the fiscal deficit to GDP ratio to 4.5 per cent by 2025-26, based on the medium term fiscal framework announced amidst covid19, when we hit the ratio to above 9 per cent of GDP then. We have been firm on the medium term fiscal framework ...

How Much Does India Spend on its Women? Gender Budgeting Can Provide Some Answers

18/12/2024

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A budgeting framework that acknowledges the different socially-determined roles played by men and women can address gender-related concerns—and eventually pave the way to greater gender equality.

 
Gender budgeting is a public financial management tool for accountability. It began as a fiscal innovation in India in 2000. Gender budgeting does ...

Fiscal Health of the Indian States

28/11/2024

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The fiscal policy has remained accommodative in the post pandemic period. The stipulated fiscal deficit-GDP ratio envisioned for the State governments is 3.5 per cent of GSDP.  This increase in the threshold ratio from 3 per cent of GSDP fiscal rule to 3.5 per cent is welcome ...

Brazil's push for 'super-rich tax' at G20 sparks inequality debate

26/11/2024

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The initiative, introduced by the Brazilian government, is based on a study by French economist Gabriel Zucman, a professor at the Paris School of Economics and the University of California.
 
At the G20 meetings in Brazil, a progressive taxation proposal was brought forward, advocating for a 2% minimum tax ...

The fiscal costs of Indian population dynamics

06/11/2024

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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report and International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) Mumbai recently released the 2023 Ageing Report, which reports that India's elderly population (above 60 years) will double to over 20 percent of its total population by 2050. Given the delimitation exercise (which decides the Lok ...