Business Archives - prosaicview https://www.prosaicview.com/category/business/ Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:17:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Trump’s Tariff’s are not another 1991 moment for India https://www.prosaicview.com/trumps-tariffs-are-not-another-1991-moment-for-india/ https://www.prosaicview.com/trumps-tariffs-are-not-another-1991-moment-for-india/#respond Thu, 03 Apr 2025 06:04:17 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=395 As US President Donald Trump’s Liberty Day tariff is introduced, several economic commentators have begun saying this is an opportunity for India, not unlike the 1991 balance-of-payments crisis it faced, which led to the economic reforms. The assumption here is that Trump’s Tariffs could force the Indian government to lower the import tariffs it has […]

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/trumps-tariffs-are-not-another-1991-moment-for-india/feed/ 0 The Government’s Tax Disputes https://www.prosaicview.com/tax-disputes/ https://www.prosaicview.com/tax-disputes/#respond Wed, 18 Aug 2021 13:59:14 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=379 Removing the retrospective tax, while a good step, is not enough to solve the tax disputes problem The retrospective tax provision that the late Pranab Mukherjee had introduced as a clause buried in the fine print during while presenting the Union Budget in 2012-13 as Finance Minister in UPA II is finally being repealed. It […]

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/tax-disputes/feed/ 0 The Prosaicview Podcast on the OECD/G20 Tax Proposal https://www.prosaicview.com/the-prosaicview-podcast-on-the-oecd-g20-tax-proposal/ https://www.prosaicview.com/the-prosaicview-podcast-on-the-oecd-g20-tax-proposal/#respond Wed, 25 Aug 2021 06:03:04 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=383 In this episode of the Prosaicview Podcast, I discuss the OECD/G20 tax proposal that 130 countries have broadly agreed on with Mr Rohinton Sidhwa, Partner, Deloitte India. We discuss its implications for India, the nuances of the various clauses and whether it will actually prevent big companies from reducing taxes using tax havens around the […]

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/the-prosaicview-podcast-on-the-oecd-g20-tax-proposal/feed/ 0 Vodafone-Idea Case: Don’t Miss the Woods for the Trees https://www.prosaicview.com/the-vi-mess/ https://www.prosaicview.com/the-vi-mess/#respond Fri, 06 Aug 2021 05:22:03 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=373 The troubles at Vi are huge. But they are actually just a symptom of the mess in the telecom industry which needs to be fixed.   Vi – the Indian telecom giant formed by the merger of Vodafone India and the AV Birla group’s Idea Cellular in a $23 billion dollar deal in 2017 – […]

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/the-vi-mess/feed/ 0 PSUs: The Right Questions and the Wrong Ones https://www.prosaicview.com/psus-selling-the-family-silver/ https://www.prosaicview.com/psus-selling-the-family-silver/#respond Sun, 01 Aug 2021 07:53:59 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=367 The two most important questions are almost never asked when the decision to disinvest or privatise a PSU is taken Whenever any government in India announces its intention to privatise or otherwise dispose off any public sector enterprise (PSE), a heated debate starts off. The current target of trying to get Rs 1.75 lakh crore […]

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/psus-selling-the-family-silver/feed/ 0 The Prosaicview Podcast on Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting https://www.prosaicview.com/the-prosaicview-podcast-on-business-responsibility-and-sustainability-reporting/ https://www.prosaicview.com/the-prosaicview-podcast-on-business-responsibility-and-sustainability-reporting/#respond Mon, 02 Aug 2021 14:12:24 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=372 In this episode of the Prosaicview Podcast, I talk with Dr Inderjeet Singh, Director – Financial Advisory, Deloitte India about the new Business Responsibility and Sustainability Reporting (BRSR) norms that the top 1000 listed companies by market capitalisation will need to comply with as per the Securities and Exchange Board of India directive. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1631632/episodes/8960881

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/the-prosaicview-podcast-on-business-responsibility-and-sustainability-reporting/feed/ 0 Monitor Those Vaccine Side Effects https://www.prosaicview.com/monitor-those-vaccine-side-effects/ https://www.prosaicview.com/monitor-those-vaccine-side-effects/#respond Wed, 19 May 2021 01:51:59 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=340 Our system of tracking long term side effects and breakthrough infections leaves a lot to be desired The government has finally got around to admitting that some “potential thromboembolic events” – or formation of blood clots – have been detected following Covishield vaccination. These are fairly rare side effects – according to the health ministry, […]

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/monitor-those-vaccine-side-effects/feed/ 0 The Pre Budget Podcast 3 – Fixing the Economy https://www.prosaicview.com/the-pre-budget-podcast-3-fixing-the-economy/ https://www.prosaicview.com/the-pre-budget-podcast-3-fixing-the-economy/#respond Wed, 27 Jan 2021 14:49:27 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=291 Sanjay Kumar, Partner and National Public Policy Leader of Deloitte India joins Prosenjit Datta, Editor in Chief, Prosaicview to discuss what the Budget can do to speed up the recovery and put India back on a sustained high growth trajectory https://www.buzzsprout.com/1631632/episodes/7516375  

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/allowing-foxes-in-the-hen-house/feed/ 0 The future of global manufacturing https://www.prosaicview.com/the-future-of-global-manufacturing/ https://www.prosaicview.com/the-future-of-global-manufacturing/#respond Thu, 23 Jul 2020 06:29:49 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=217 Flexibility and de-risking are going to be more important than scale and cheap labour in the post Covid world The Coronavirus pandemic and China’s rising tensions with several countries are changing supply chains equations across the globe. No country now wants to put all or even most of its manufacturing eggs into the China basket […]

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