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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 …

Regional variation in complaints and resolution

09/03/2023

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(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 …

Gender and the financial grievance redress system

09/03/2023

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(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, …

Fiscal Policy for Sustainable Development in Asia-Pacific' is an inspiring read on gender budgeting

31/01/2023

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Book Review
 
Lekha Chakraborty, Fiscal Policy for Sustainable Development in Asia Pacific: Gender Budgeting in India, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
 
Until recently fiscal policy and government budgets were thought to be matters that had no differential impacts on the lives of women …

Budget 2023 must target fiscal consolidation while supporting specific sectors: NIPFP’s Pandey

27/01/2023

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Given the uncertain global environment, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also needs to focus on capex, as also on labour-intensive manufacturing.
 
India’s central government must aim to lower its fiscal deficit gradually while taking measures to tackle sector-specific issues in the upcoming budget for 2023-2024, according …