Author: Manas Chakravarty

10 charts we need to look at closely before deciding on any fiscal stimulus push for the Indian economy

Fed’s withdrawal of QE will mean that the supply of bonds will go up over time, other things remaining the same, which should increase US bond yields

A recent paper by Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel titled ‘Indian income inequality, 1922-2014: From British Raj to Billionaire Raj?’ points to widening income inequality in India post liberalization

Only 65% of Indian households in which the head is younger than 35 years of age hold any financial assets, shows a report by RBI’s household finance committee

Seventy years after independence, India is moving down a new road. Some think it is a road to a strong and prosperous India, others believe it will lead to disaster

A comparison of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh on key social and economic parameters such as poverty, unemployment and child malnutrition

Overall bank credit growth to the priority sector was at 4% in June and it has been slowing steadily. One reason is that inflation rates too have come down

The RBI survey for June 2017 shows people are as unhappy with their income growth, employment and economic well-being as they were before the Narendra Modi government came to power

Going by historical precedent, the slowing inflation makes a case for an RBI rate cut, and the global softness in commodity prices should further buttress that case

32.5% of those surveyed by RBI said the current employment situation had improved, while 39.2% said it had worsened