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Rohan Deshpande
GST Imbroglio and the Angst of States Battling Financial Crunch and COVID-19
21 Oct 2020
It was deemed that the projected growth rate of states’ revenue, had it not been subsumed by GST, would be 14% per annum, with the revenue collections for Financial Year (FY) 2015-16 considered as…
Subodh Varma
Do You Know How Much Veggies are Costing, Mr. Modi?
15 Oct 2020
In just the past month, inflation (annual price rise) has zoomed up, delivering a body blow to family budgets.
PTI/NewsClick Report
RBI Says GDP Likely to Contract by 9.5% in FY’21
09 Oct 2020
The GDP contracted by 23.9 per cent in the first quarter of the fiscal, as per the estimates of the Central Statistics Office (CSO).
Shikha Mukerjee
‘Streets will Show the Way’: How Vendors are Looking to Tide Over Economic Distress
10 Sep 2020
The National Hawkers Federation, which has about four crore members, has come up with a four-fold plan to tackle the economic fallout of the lockdown due to COVID-19.
Newsclick Team
'Economic Contraction is 40% not 24%' - Prof. Arun Kumar
09 Sep 2020
The decline in India's gross domestic product (GDP) is much more than what the government has estimated for the three months between April and June.
Tikender Singh Panwar
GST Will Implode States; Himachal is Already Feeling the Heat
09 Sep 2020
The Centre taking the borrowing route to compensate states for the GST revenue shortfall is bound to impact a small state like Himachal Pradesh, whose major assets are nationalised.
Newsclick Team
Time to Inject Demand into Economy: Prabhat Patnaik
05 Sep 2020
The draconian lockdown imposed in India to contain the COVID-19 pandemic has left millions without work and without any purchasing power.
Newsclick Team
Modi Govt Failed in GDP Test
04 Sep 2020
The economy in countries across the world is in shambles due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however, the case in India is particularly bad.
Newsclick Team
Why is the Economy so Battered?
02 Sep 2020
With this decline, the Government of India has also achieved the distinction of being the country with the biggest economic decline among all major economies of the world.
Newsclick Team
Let’s Talk: India’s GDP Tanks
01 Sep 2020
In this episode, we talk to senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta on the GDP numbers for the first quarter of the financial year.