Economy Archives - prosaicview https://www.prosaicview.com/category/economy/ 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 Abhijit Sen Passes Away https://www.prosaicview.com/abhijit-sen-passes-away/ https://www.prosaicview.com/abhijit-sen-passes-away/#respond Tue, 30 Aug 2022 04:46:00 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=390 Dr Abhijit Sen, renowned economist, former member of the Planning Commission, and the strongest votary of universal Public Distribution System passed away on Monday, 29 August 2022. He was 72. A renowned agricultural economist, he was the chairman of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices set up by the A B Vajpayee government. The […]

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/abhijit-sen-passes-away/feed/ 0 The Prosaicview Podcast on IBC https://www.prosaicview.com/the-prosaicview-podcast-on-ibc/ https://www.prosaicview.com/the-prosaicview-podcast-on-ibc/#respond Sun, 17 Oct 2021 08:40:51 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=386 In this episode of The Prosaicview Podcast, Veena Sivaramakrishnan, partner, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas and an expert on the insolvency law talks to Prosenjit Datta about the changes that have been proposed as well as the changes that she would like to see in the IBC. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1631632/episodes/9381350

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/the-prosaicview-podcast-on-ibc/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 Why Petrol and Diesel Prices aren’t coming down https://www.prosaicview.com/petrol-prices-in-india/ https://www.prosaicview.com/petrol-prices-in-india/#respond Tue, 27 Jul 2021 02:39:17 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=365 The government’s dependence on fuel tax revenues has grown as its other tax calculations have gone awry Despite the heat generated over petrol and diesel prices, the union government has been unwilling to reduce taxes on these. Like an addict, the government’s dependence on petroleum taxes has been increasing as its other revenue calculations have […]

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/petrol-prices-in-india/feed/ 0 Low Savings, Rising Debt https://www.prosaicview.com/low-savings-rising-debt/ https://www.prosaicview.com/low-savings-rising-debt/#respond Thu, 24 Jun 2021 06:09:46 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=351 The Reserve Bank of India’s latest statistics of household savings and debt  paint a dismal picture How badly has Covid 19 hit Indian household finances? The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) household savings and debt trends give a good insight. These data sets come with a lag and we do not have data for the […]

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/low-savings-rising-debt/feed/ 0 The Bad and the Good of too much currency in circulation https://www.prosaicview.com/the-bad-and-the-good-of-too-much-currency-in-circulation/ https://www.prosaicview.com/the-bad-and-the-good-of-too-much-currency-in-circulation/#respond Tue, 25 May 2021 14:03:37 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=348 The currency in circulation has risen exponentially. What are the implications? The total currency in circulation in India is rising inexorably. By the end of the first week of May 2021, it had crossed Rs 29 lakh crore.  A year ago, it had stood at Rs 25.4 lakh crore. And there are no signs that […]

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/the-bad-and-the-good-of-too-much-currency-in-circulation/feed/ 0 Don’t Let Their Deaths Go in Vain https://www.prosaicview.com/dont-let-their-deaths-go-in-vain/ https://www.prosaicview.com/dont-let-their-deaths-go-in-vain/#respond Fri, 21 May 2021 13:43:44 +0000 https://www.prosaicview.com/?p=347 Every death is a tragedy. But lessons learnt from each death can help protect others. More than one thousand doctors have died in India due of Covid, according to the Indian Medical Association (IMA) – over 244 in the second wave itself. The  IMA data may not capture the full situation – IMA has about […]

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]]> https://www.prosaicview.com/dont-let-their-deaths-go-in-vain/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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