(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, …

Against the backdrop of geopolitical risks and uncertainties, RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has decided to increase the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility by 25 basis points to 6.50 per cent with immediate effect. However, it is no clear that RBI will take a break from …

The fiscal consolidation framework mandates all state governments in India to keep their fiscal deficit-GDP ratio at 3.5 percent. The extra-borrowing powers (0.5 percent) of the states are linked to power sector restructuring. Kerala is not an exception to this rule. The fiscal deficit for 2023-24 is pegged dot …

(Co-authored with Balamuraly B.)

 

The Union Budget was presented against the backdrop of geopolitical risks and macroeconomic uncertainties of mounting global inflation. The fiscal arithmetic however is grounded on the path towards fiscal consolidation, pegging a fiscal deficit to 5.9 per cent in FY 23 and …

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 …