All Stories for Budget2012video
Shift from consumption to investment spends: Goyal
Jagannathan • 13 years agoDr Ashima Goyal of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research in Mumbai told Firstpost's R Jagannathan that it is not the raw numbers that matter to fiscal consolidation, but the quality of the adjustment.
Who must the government tax this Budget 2012?
Fp Editors • 13 years agoIf Pranab Mukherjee must tax, where must he go looking for additional revenue?
It's going to be a one way street for inflation - upwards
Fp Editors • 13 years agoNo matter what the finance minister does in his budget, he will end up stoking some kind of inflation.
Budget 2012 must strike a balance between revenue and expenditure
Fp Editors • 13 years agoMaking ends meet is the biggest challenge facing the finance minister today.
The Frankenstein called subsidies
Fp Editors • 13 years agoWhether it is food, or fuel or fertilisers - the 3Fs for the FM - the subsidy bill has, through benign political neglect, burgeoned into something frightening over the last eight years.
We need a tax signal more than a fiscal one
Jagannathan • 13 years agoAjit Ranade, chief economist of the Aditya Birla Group, he would prefer to avoid being seen as a fiscal hawk - where the first priority of the finance minister would be to balance his books.
Land acquisition, diesel deregulation must be tackled
Bose • 13 years agoDharmakirti Joshi, chief economist, Crisil, believes, you have to start with cutting oil subsidies - with diesel deregulation taking the prime spot in reforms.
RBI growth stimulus not possible without fiscal consolidation
Vembu • 13 years agoIf fiscal consolidation is not No. 1 priority in this budget, the RBI will be unable to deliver the growth stimulus that is required.
Pranab must act to plug budget hole
Bose • 13 years agoRupa Rege-Nisture, chief economist and general manager of the Bank of Baroda, speaks to Firstpost's Rajanya Bose in an exclusive video interview.
Budget 2012 needs a top-quality policy effort
Manika • 13 years agoManika Premsingh spoke to Ajay Shah of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy for Firstpost.