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Fiscal Consolidation through Austerity

  • May 25, 2015
  • C. P. Chandrasekhar
  • Fiscal Policy, Political Economy
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On May 17, the Controller General of Accounts released the audited provisional accounts of the central government for 2014. Unlike the revised estimates in budgetary documents, these figures include actual figures for the month of March. A terse Statement from…

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Fiscal Correction versus Democracy in India

  • December 12, 2014
  • Jayati Ghosh
  • Fiscal Policy, Political Economy
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There is a reason why budgets have to be passed in parliament (in India certainly, but also in most other countries). There is a reason why, as per the Indian Constitution, the Finance Bill that details the revenues and expenditure…

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The Gathering Clouds of Recession

  • November 24, 2014
  • Prabhat Patnaik
  • Fiscal Policy, Macroeconomics, World Economy
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The world capitalist economy has been mired in stagnation and high unemployment ever since the 2008 financial crisis. Many were predicting that a turnaround was about to occur, partly because of the fact that the U.S. economy last month showed…

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