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Will FM's Budget 2023 enable 'Nari Shakti'?
10/03/2023
(Co-authored with Balamuraly B.)
The FM has rolled out a slew of gender-friendly announcements, but a conscious increase in the public expenditure on soft sectors like health, education and gender will give social infrastructure investment a boost.
In Union Budget 2023, gender budgeting is pitched as a powerful ...
Financing Cities
09/03/2023
(Co-authored with Balamuraly B.)
Against the backdrop of 73rd and 74th Amendment, in 1992, India has institutionalised the structure of local governance with the devolution of functions and finances to the third tier of government. The Urban Local governments (ULB) include municipal corporations, municipal councils and Nagar panchayats, which ...
Given constraints in the fiscal space, resorting to revenue mobilisation is vital.
Kerala’s Budget 2023 presented by Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal on February 3, 2023 focused on revenue mobilisation. The narrative of the Kerala State finances has taken a relative transit from focusing on debt financing to revenue ...
(Co-authored with Vimal Balasubramanium, Aishwarya Gawali, Nancy Gupta and Srishti Sharma)
In previous articles, we examined the extent of grievances and redress for various financial products in the financial market landscape, specifically for banking and pensions. We also evaluated whether grievance redress mechanisms worked and what was the impact ...
(Co-authored with Vimal Balasubramanium, Aishwarya Gawali, Nancy Gupta and Srishti Sharma)
Background
India already suffers from the problem of low financial literacy. This problem, however, is compounded for women who have even lower financial literacy compared to men.
Additionally, there is evidence to suggest that structural and individual ...