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INTERVIEW_LEKHA S. CHAKRABORTY: Tax buoyancy key to FY26 fiscal aim

02/05/2023

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NEW DELHI – In order to achieve its medium-term fiscal consolidation aim of below 4.5% of GDP by 2025-26 (Apr-Mar), the government needs to increase the tax buoyancy since compression of expenditure would hurt economic growth, says Lekha S. Chakraborty, a professor at the National Institute of Public Finance ...

Fiscal Policy for Sustainable Development in Asia Pacific: Gender Budgeting In India by Lekha Chakraborty

02/05/2023

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The public budget of a country is one of the earliest economic tools that economists and accountants have had available over the years for their theorizing and their analyzing. Public budgets became available when the public accounts of countries could be separated from the private accounts of those who ran ...

Making Gender Budgeting Work

02/05/2023

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Fiscal Policy for Sustainable Development in Asia Pacific: Gender Budgeting In India
Author: Lekha S Chakraborty
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Price: Rs 13,300
 
At the outset Lekha S Chakraborty makes a significant observation about the role of fiscal transfers to generate a better gender outcome. “While social mores cannot ...

Why we need to debate the Old Pension Scheme

05/04/2023

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(Co-authored with Balamuraly B and Lekha Chakraborty)
 
OPS  raises concerns about fiscal sustainability and intergenerational inequities.
 
In the post-pandemic fiscal strategy of State finances, the fiscal risks emanating from revenue uncertainties, high percentage of committed spending and increasing subsidy burden have a crucial significance for long-term fiscal sustainability. The ...

Understanding goods and services inflation in India

05/04/2023

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(Co-authored with Pramod Sinha and Rachna Sharma)
 
Background
 
In recent months, there has been a growing concern around elevated services inflation. In the US, while the falling goods inflation has helped pull down the overall inflation, the pace of price increases among services has remained high. These patterns ...