Rural Distress

Fitch flags concerns of high joblessness, rural distress and GDP growth deceleration on weak manufacturing

Global ratings agency Fitch on Thursday said there has been a rise in unemployment in the country, and attributed GDP growth deceleration to domestic factors like weak manufacturing and dip in farmers' income

Weak exports, rural distress, uncertainty over election outcome to drag down industrial production: Report

According to Dun and Bradstreet's (D&B) latest Economy Forecast, the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) is likely to have grown by 3-3.2 percent during February 2019

Rs 6,000 cash sop to farmers may swing votes for BJP govt but no 'Modi wave' for 2019 polls, finds report

The Rs 6,000-per annum cash dole out to each farmer family in basic income support will help swing votes for the ruling BJP, but the 2019 Lok Sabha election will not see a Modi wave at all, says a brokerage report.

Budget 2018: Modi govt has a strong case to stick to fiscal roadmap; it should not opt for populist track

Even without populist announcements, India’s fiscal position is looking precarious at present.

Budget 2018: Arun Jaitley can't treat agriculture as just another sector; it needs targeted policy action

Any set of solutions – and they will have to be a set – will have to address this volatility in growth and by extension, agricultural incomes.

Gujarat election results: It's wrong to understand outcome through vote-shares, BJP came very close to losing this critical poll

A look at the strike rates — seats won against seats contested — of BJP and Congress, show that the gap has never been this close since 1985

Remove inequality in the farm sector; good monsoon alone cannot push growth

If the government really wants to get the benefit out of expected good monsoon, it has to put effort into the agricultural sector

Indian economy like 'one-eyed' king in land of blind: Raghuram Rajan

Raghuram Rajan said "a bunch of good things have happened" in India, but there were "still some things to do"

Here are four ways how the govt can improve MNREGA to fire fight drought

A 'political gimmick'? PM Modi's rural income promise leaves Indian farmers, experts cold

Achieving Modi's goal is not impossible. Land reforms and freeing up food prices triggered rapid gains in farm incomes in China in the 1970s and 1980s. Yet he does not plan such steps