Fiscal Prudence

Job quotas, loan waivers and now UBI promise: Will Union Budget 2019 halt wave of populist announcements?

A series of populist policies may help the politicians to win elections but they are certainly doing a disservice to the nation in the long-term.

Full text: Arun Jaitley's blog says the economy and the markets reward structural reforms, fiscal prudence

We have enabled every Indian to be a part of the world’s fastest growing economy. The future looks much brighter than the past.

Budget 2018: Govt breaches fiscal deficit target of 3.2% for FY18, pegs it higher at 3.5%: Arun Jaitley

The fiscal deficit target has been fixed at 3.3 percent for 2018-19 as against Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act target of 3 percent

Arun Jaitley has tough task to choose between populism and fiscal prudence in Union Budget 2018

In Union Budget, small businesses may get some sops to ease pain caused to them due to chaotic rollout of GST and demonetisation

Union Budget 2018: Narendra Modi govt must tame fiscal deficit to retain investors' faith in Asia's 3rd largest economy

Since Narendra Modi took power in May 2014, benchmark 10-year bond yields have fallen 135 bps and NSE share index has surged 55 percent

Fiscal deficit may be slightly higher than target of 3.2% of GDP as per earlier projection: Niti Aayog vice-chairman

The government aims to contain the fiscal deficit for 2017-18 to 3.2 percent of the GDP, and 3 percent in 2018-19

Budget 2018: Fiscal slippage not a bigger worry than faltering economy; Jaitley shouldn't repeat UPA's mistake

The additional spending, if directed to kickstart economic engines, can work well to regain the growth momentum, even at the cost of a one-off fiscal slippage

Higher fiscal deficit due to Budget being advanced, was expected, says chief statistician TCA Anant

Budgetary fiscal deficit for first seven months of 2017-18 stood at 96.1 percent -- Rs 5.25 lakh crore -- of full year's target of Rs 5.46 lakh crore

It's time we moved away from fiscal deficit targeting, focused policy related outcomes: Bimal Jalan

The government has set a target of a 3.2 percent of GDP fiscal deficit for the current fiscal

P Chidambaram hails 0.5% rate cut by RBI, former FM says move signals lower interest rate regime

Former FM said we can look forward to more policy steps by the RBI