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Author: Surajit Mazumdar

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Union Budget 2021-22: No step forward, two steps back

  • February 6, 2021
  • Surajit Mazumdar
  • Finance
  • 0 Comments

On the face of it, the figures in the Union Budget 2021-22 suggest that the Government opted for imparting to the Indian economy a massive fiscal stimulus in the Covid financial year (April 2020 to March 2021), which is now…

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Union Budget 2020-21 and the Issue of the Fiscal ‘Stimulus’

  • January 31, 2021
  • Surajit Mazumdar
  • Finance
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It hardly needs emphasizing that the context for the Union Budget for 2021-22 is an exceptional one. The country continues to face a highly uncertain future on both the pandemic and economic fronts and their mutual impact on each other.…

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Some ‘Reservations’ on the Modi Government’s Reservation for ‘Economically Weaker Sections’

  • January 15, 2019
  • Surajit Mazumdar
  • Employment, Political Economy
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I Since independence and even earlier, India has been characterized by an enduring duality in which the reality of an inegalitarian and oppression-ridden society has co-existed with a widespread and even growing urge for equality and justice. The inequalities prevailing…

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