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Author: C. P. Chandrasekhar

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This author has written 376 articles

The Urgent Need for an Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme

  • August 10, 2021
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Macroeconomics
  • 0 Comments

At long last and more than a year after the need for such a scheme became obvious a parliamentary committee has recommended the institution of an urban employment scheme at the national level. The Standing Committee on Labour stated in…

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The Forex Bonanza

  • July 27, 2021
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Finance
  • 0 Comments

On 16 July 2021 India’s foreign exchange reserves stood at $612.7 billion. That was almost 30 per cent higher than its level of $475.6 billion at the end of March 2020, when the effects of the pandemic began to be…

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The Global Minimum Corporate Tax: Not high enough, not fair enough

  • July 23, 2021
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar
  • World Economy
  • 0 Comments

Following years of negotiations, most nations in the world now appear to be willing to align their corporate tax regimes to prevent multinationals from evading taxation in the jurisdictions in which they operate. They have now tentatively agreed on the…

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Is emerging Asia in retreat?

  • July 13, 2021
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Finance
  • 0 Comments

International observers still view Asia and particularly East Asia as the most dynamic economic region in the world, a perception that has been even more entrenched over the period of the pandemic. Certainly, if aggregate GDP growth rates in real…

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Profiting from Debt

  • July 12, 2021
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar
  • Finance
  • 0 Comments

In a stealthy game played over two decades, corporate India is walking away with huge wealth transfers, largely from the public banking system. After much delay, the halting process of settling the bad debt of defaulting corporates using the Insolvency…

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The State and the Digital Giants

  • June 30, 2021
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar
  • Finance
  • 0 Comments

The NDA government has decided to further tighten its regulation of e-commerce, taking on in particular foreign giants like Amazon and Flipkart-Walmart, with implications for domestic organized retail majors like Reliance. The Department of Consumer Affairs in the Ministry of…

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A Non-performing Code for Bad Debt

  • June 29, 2021
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Finance
  • 0 Comments

In mid-June, the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approved a resolution plan for the Rs. 35,000 crore non-performing debt of Videocon Industries. The plan was a successful offer made by Twin Star Technologies, a Vedanta group company, and accepted by…

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G7: Promising more from less

  • June 26, 2021
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar
  • World Economy
  • 0 Comments

In early June Finance Ministers and central bank governors of the G7 met over two days in London, as a prequel to the meeting of heads of states of the grouping a week later. The meet was of special significance.…

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The Impasse in External Debt Relief

  • June 15, 2021
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Finance
  • 0 Comments

When the pandemic first swept across the globe and destroyed economies in its wake, there were at least some expressions of international solidarity among leaders of the rich countries. External debt problems were widely recognised to be inevitable in the…

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The Inadequate Food Safety Net

  • June 1, 2021
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh
  • Monetary Policy
  • 0 Comments

With India experiencing a severe second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, forcing decentralized lockdowns, a crisis of loss of jobs and livelihoods and resulting hunger is being reported from across the country. A reluctant central government has, therefore, been forced…

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