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Increase tax devolution to 50 percent over states' special status demand: Economist

01/08/2024

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Budget 2024: As Modi 3.0 gears up for presenting budget 2024, expectations are rife that the budget will be much more than fiscal numbers. In an exclusive conversation with Republic Business, Lekha S Chakraborty, professor of NIPFP and Visiting Scholar at Cambridge University, shares her expert insights on the ...

Explainer: Shifting the focus to Public Debt-GDP ratio

01/08/2024

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A fiscal rule is a constraint on fiscal policy through numerical limits on deficits. Indian fiscal rules as per FRBM envisions fiscal deficit to GDP at 3 per cent. However in the post pandemic fiscal strategy, the fiscal glide path is envisioned at 4.5 percent by 2025-26. 
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GENDER KALEIDOSCOPE: Gender Budgeting and it's critical role in Rural Development

22/07/2024

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Interview with Dr Lekha S. Chakraborty 
 
(Professor and Chair, NIPFP NET-Website Committee, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi & Research Faculty Associate, The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, New York)
 
In the Gender Kaleidoscope segment in Pragati, we have the privilege of featuring an ...

DEMANDS FROM BIHAR & ANDHRA: Is special category status feasible?

22/07/2024

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Since the 14th Finance Commission recommended that no new state should be accorded the SCS, the central government has repeatedly denied their demands.
 
With a coalition government at the Centre, the call for special category status (SCS) for Andhra Pradesh and Bihar has only got louder. Lekha Chakraborty looks ...

Special Category Status: Raising tax transfers to states a good alternative

22/07/2024

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The Special Category states receive special financial assistance and other benefits from the central government due to their unique developmental needs and challenges.
 
The clamour for the ‘Special Category Status’ for Bihar and Andhra Pradesh came back into the spotlight after the Janata Dal (United) and Telugu Desam Party ...