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p. raghavan The Indian Express Group

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Monday 03 Oct '11As the southwest monsoon moves midway into its withdrawal phase, the prospects look encouraging.
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Tuesday 23 Aug '11The slow momentum of the US recovery and the instability in the global markets have now added to the worries about the prospects of the Indian economy.
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Tuesday 19 Apr '11Revaluing the renminbi and aligning the exchange rate of the Chinese currency with the market trends has been a contentious issue for some time.
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Friday 18 Mar '11The state budgets for 2011-12, tabled in their legislatures since early February, indicate that because of the pick up in the economy, the states have refocused on fiscal consolidation.
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Thursday 03 Mar '11The finance minister in his budget speech has talked of increasing the share of manufacturing from 16% of the GDP to 25% over the next decade. This is quite a challenge, given that the share of the sector in India’s GDP has stagnated and even declined in the last few decades.