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 …

 

At the outset Lekha S Chakraborty makes a significant observation about the role of fiscal transfers to generate a …

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 …

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 …

(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 …