With the end of the South West (SW) monsoon and half of the financial year drawing to a close, it…
In the current fiscal year, merchandise imports have been on a roll. In the first four months (April-July), imports rose…
Last Friday, industrial output numbers for July 2003 were released. These showed surprisingly strong growth in manufacturing industries. Overall, the…
The burgeoning official stock of foodgrains had in the summer of 2002 become a cause for concern. An incentive structure…
Last Friday, the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) released its estimates for output of six infrastructure industries for…
It rained through 15th August 2003. After Lahore, the moon has become our new samjhauta destination. In Tripura, 26 people…
As on August 1, 2003, the foreign currency reserves of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) fell by $133 million.…
In the accompanying table, we present some average values for the period January to June 2003 for three economies: USA,…
The Index of Industrial Production grew 5.7 per cent in May. In 2002-03, the growth of the index had been…
Last week, the rupee came perilously close to breaching the Rs 46 mark. Till the Reserve Bank, reportedly assisted by…
Like frogs that begin to sing after it rains, there are those who then get a dose of courage in…
It finally rained on Saturday in the capital, marking thus the official onset of the monsoon. It is pouring across…
A couple of months back we had suggested that the Indian Meteorological Department was being overly cautious in projecting this…
The outsize current account deficit that the US economy has with the rest of the world had long been marked…
Since the close of 2000, interest rates have cruised downhill. Between January of 2001 and 2003, the yield on 10-year…
Initial estimates for economic growth in the first quarter (Jan-Mar) of calendar 2003 do not bring much cheer. Gross domestic…
We have suggested earlier that the agricultural output data for the current agricultural year (July 2002 to June 2003) is…
We have touched on exchange rates, several times over the past few months. Following the principle that as a first…
