Subir Gokarn: A big leap forward

India will present the Union Budget for FY16 (year ending March 2016) on Feb. 28, 2015. It is likely to be assessed from the following perspectives: the government's commitment to fiscal consolidation; the quality of fiscal consolidation and whether ...

The IMANI Center for Policy & Education HAS two important meetings. The first, is a meeting assessing the results of budget tracking and analysis undertaken by IMANI and pertaining to some specific sectors of the Ghanaian economy namely health, ...

Generally satisfied at the budgetary proposals of union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for 2015-16, insurance industry officials however expressed their fears of being pulled into the "cess pool" of the Swachh Bharat Cess. Experts also told IANS that a clear ...

Finance Promoting Savings And Investments This has been one of the best budgets in the recent past. Keeping in mind fiscal and other constraints it has done whatever a budget can do to promote ...

Read the full text of South African Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene's inaugural national Budget speech, the fifth in the country's democratic Parliament, delivered on 25 February 2015. "I have the honour to present the first budget of our fifth ...

These are days of high expectations in all sectors about the coming Budget and the judiciary is no exception, notes M J Antony. It has been the persistent complaint of the judiciary and the legal profession that Budgets ignore their urgent needs, leading to a near-collapse of the justice delivery system. Estimates of budgetary outlay for this important sector have varied from 0.2 to 0.4 per cent. This is pitiable by all standards, when more than 30 million cases are pending. Judges have no ...

A K Bhattacharya: Hi, Subir, welcome to the Business Standard Web Chat on the Union Budget for 2015-16. This is AKB here. What are your key thoughts on the Budget? A K Bhattacharya: There are a few positive signals from this Budget - the second ...

The annual Economic Survey, published a couple of days before Budget Day, provides the context against which the Finance Minister makes his proposals. This year's document was uncharacteristically enthusiastic about our situation — "The changing ...

NEW DELHI: The ambitious Digital India programme, an integral plank of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, was "making good progress", said the Finance Minister on Saturday. An overall sum of Rs 2,510 crore has been set aside in the budget ...