Slumpville

Advance estimates of national income for 2010-11 brought out by CSO highlight how badly investments have been hit by the…

A skewed recovery

The marginal pick-up in investments in the Indian economy from 34.5% of the GDP in 2008-09 to 36.5% in 2009-10,…

Insights caFE

India and Indonesia have had a long and turbulent relationship. So it is not surprising that the economic cooperation between…

Credit offtake

The sharp fall in industrial production in November was surprising, given that the outflow of credit from the banking system…

Don?t blame hoarders

Onion prices have been generally very volatile this year. At the start of the year in January, the prices touched…

Skewed collections

A major beneficiary of the pick-up in the economy has been the ministry of finance, which has seen its tax…