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The big question is does Budget 2025 help India step onto the path to Viksit Bharat by 2047? If high, inclusive growth is the surest way to reach that goal, the Finance Minister’s proposals for 2025-26 generally point in the right direction. But that is not saying much. Has reform by stealth reached the end […]
Read More Budget 2025: Slow turn towards Viksit BharatHow is “Tipping Point” – a phrase heard most often in the context of climate change relevant for the 2025 budget in India? It becomes relevant in the context of India’s long-term goal of becoming a developed economy (Viksit Bharat) by 2047. If India fails to achieve the required growth during the intervening twenty-two years, […]
Read More India’s “Tipping Point” Budget 2025Tarmac to Towers: The India Infrastructure Story Pratap Padode 2024 Westland Business 373 pages Rs 799/- Pratap Rodode is a financial journalist and publisher of Construction Update, a magazine launched in 1996, followed by Infrastructure Today, Power Today and Project Reporter. This book comes favorably pre-reviewed by industry veterans Nandan Nilekani, founder Chairman, UIDAI, S.N. […]
Read More Book Review: India’s infra journey: Growth & GapsWill India get rich before it turns 100? A reality check Author: Prosenjit Datta Publisher: Aleph Pages: 138 Price: Rs 499 Economic treatises, says Prosenjit Datta, a distinguished Indian editor and business journalist, can be frustratingly obtuse and reader unfriendly. This attractively written book is anything but. It packs a punch despite being deceptively slim, […]
Read More Book Review: Can India be Rich at 100?Dr Manmohan Singh breathed his last on December 26, 2024. Finance Minister of India 1991-1996 and Prime Minister of India from 2004-2014 he was cremated on December 28. Four attributes distinguish Dr Manmohan Singh (India’s thirteenth Prime Minister (2004 to 2014) from his predecessors and his sole successor- Narendra Modi. A bureaucrat and a politician […]
Read More Doctor Sahib: An uncommon PMIndia is at an inflection point. Realizing our long dormant economic potential is happening faster than our institutions are adapting to the new challenges. Becoming the fastest growing large economy this year with an unanticipated GDP boost of around 0.7 percentage point above our long-term growth rate of 6.6 percent over the past three decades […]
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