The sudden surge of small savings in 2008-09, with inflows rising up by 16.2% as against the 10-20% fall in…
Monthly numbers of the Index of Industrial Production figures show that the sector has borne the brunt of the slowdown…
It has been more than a decade since the heads of states gathered for the World Food Summit at the…
UPA II promises new I-cards for citizens and beneficiaries. But identifying the poor is tough
A sharp pick-up in demand for electricity as the economy gathers steam in 2009-10 and an even more substantial easing…
Kamal Nath, the new minister for road transport & highways, has one of the most challenging tasks in the new…
When politicians make a pitch for ministries what attracts them? Prestige of a remit is important. But what the media…
The slowdown of international trade has led to a sudden spurt in complaints of unfair trade practices by WTO member…
Nearly two decades after opening up the power sector, private investments in generation is restricted to a miniscule 15.3% of…
The National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme is the single largest public works programme in human history. Showcasing the United Progressive…
The US government has taken the view that its tax code provides a competitive advantage to its large companies that…
To understand why the Obama administration has acted against outsourcing and to counter its arguments, let?s have a good look…
The agreement reached at the 12th Asean+3 finance ministers meeting in Bali on May 3, 2009 on the main components…
Credit to the small-scale sector has been an overriding objective of state policy, irrespective of the political parties in power…
The global financial system remains under severe stress as the crisis broadens to include households, corporations and the banking sectors…
Indo-US trade, which shot up almost three-fold from $13.7 billion in 2001 to $41.4 billion in 2007, suffered a sharp…
Sustained efforts to boost private sector investments in the power sector seem to be finally paying off.
Asian steel exporters, who have largely withstood the steep decline in US steel imports from a peak level of 41…
