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Book review

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

14/07/2023

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A real technical and practical tour de force on gender budgeting. 
 
A real technical and practical tour de force and a sophisticated take on gender budgeting. It combines into useful fusion from her deep knowledge of two key fields for India:  fiscal and budget policy and gender ...

Fiscal Consolidation, Budget Deficits and the Macro Economy

05/04/2018

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I read Dr. Lekha S. Chakraborty's book titled "Fiscal Consolidation, Budget Deficits and the Macro Economy" with interest. It is a book of substance.  In less than 200 pages, the author has tried to pack consideration of many contentious issues relating to fiscal policy and its linkages with overall ...

Book Review: Fiscal Consolidation, Budget Deficits and the Macro Economy

11/10/2017

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Dr. Lekha Chakraborty’s new book, Fiscal Consolidation, Budget Deficits and the Macro Economy, adds new insight to the venerable topic of how to conduct fiscal policy in the context of a developing economy. Her specific applications to India’s complex case is especially welcome, in the face of India’s rapidly changing ...

Fiscal Consolidation, Budget Deficits and the Macro Economy

04/10/2017

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For close to twenty five years now the fiscal deficit has had a central place in the economic policy of the central government in India. In particular, as Lekha Chakraborty in her book titled, Fiscal Consolidation, Budget Deficits and the Macro Economy puts it “fiscal consolidation has become the norm” ...

Fiscal Consolidation, Budget Deficits and the Macro Economy

19/12/2016

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The 2016 book titled “Fiscal Consolidation, Budget Deficits and the Macro Economy”, by Lekha Chakraborty,  is a welcome addition to the growing literature that deals with fiscal policy in specific countries, focusing on the longer run and on fiscal consolidation, rather than on a short run and countercyclical perspective. The ...