An autonomous research institute under the Ministry of Finance

 

Adequate Budgets for Children is key to sustainable development

06/07/2019

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Adequate Budgets for Children is key to sustainable development 
Modi 2.0 Budget: Good initiatives; More needed for Every last Child
Amarnath Habbar Kalle, NIPFP, Alka Singh, Save the Children
With Inputs from Rohit Dutta, NIPFP and Shivani Bhaskar, Save the Children
 

The Economics of Government: Key Issues that Budget 2019 must tackle

05/07/2019

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The prime focus of Union budget 2019 would be the need to strengthen economic growth. A deviation from the path of fiscal consolidation may be essential to spur growth. A strict adherence of threshold fiscal deficit ratio of the GDP may not be feasible at this point as more …

Hunting the Heffalump

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19/06/2019

Hunting the Heffalump
Rathin Roy and Amey Sapre
 
The analytics used by Arvind Subramanian to argue over-estimation of GDP is flawed on a number of counts
 
Arvind Subramanian (AS) has written a working paper in which he argues that …


Some medium-term fiscal arithmetic

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07/06/2019

A medium-term macro-fiscal exercise will make clear the analytical choices and trade-offs that the government faces.

 

There is little doubt that the central government is constrained for fiscal space and it is, therefore, important to think about solutions going forward. I offer a medium-term macro-fiscal …