Page 4 - Economic Reforms

A reform that demands more attention

Awareness of the banking sector's many initiatives to help stressed businesses tide over the pandemic is low

Reforms to mitigate Covid-19 impact will ensure long-term growth: FinMin

The implementation of 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat' package and unlocking of the economy have ensured that economic recovery in India has gained momentum

Badly planned, poorly communicated: Agri, labour reforms were too rushed

Prime Minister Modi is unwisely ignoring the central difficulty of reform in India: While you can't wait for everyone to agree before you make changes, you can't impose them with zero agreement

Best of BS Opinion: RBI's GDP projection, progressive farm Bills, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Modi govt finally delivering on reforms? Let's not jump to that conclusion

The promises of netas and babus and new laws, however well-meaning, mean little. What matters is implementation on the ground

India needs to copy China better when it comes to running successful SEZs

Investment zones must provide the kind of governance and clarity that's in short supply across the rest of India, writes Reuben Abraham.

Are intellectuals killing convergence?

A historic process of deglobalisation is underway which can scuttle the growth of poor nations. Disturbingly, this shift has been met by silence or even encouragement by those who should know better

India in the world of (near) free money

The stance of the large central banks and recent changes in the policy framework mean that the cost of money in the global financial system would remain low in the foreseeable future

Rescuing the economy

Ensure price support for agriculture, subsidise wage costs of MSMEs and accelerate public construction activities

Best of BS Opinion: Journey of economic reforms, ease of doing biz & more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

The journey of economic reforms

It involve a choreographed dance of multiple institutions and individuals, over long periods

Blueprint for a more healthy economy

What we need is a map - an economic blueprint - that will address the need for domestic growth and put in place measures that will make India attractive for foreign investment.

Best of BS Opinion: Govt's limited fiscal cushion, doing-business concerns

From why this year's budgeted net tax revenue for the Centre is impossible to achieve to how Indians are blase about class-driven brutality, here's a selection of Business Standard Opinion pieces

Modi reforms come cropper despite big ideas as bureaucrats lack motivation

Despite big ideas, Modi comes off poorly as a reformer. Because his bureaucrats lack the motivation to push reforms and are beginning to enjoy unbridled power

Covid-19 crisis: PM Modi says growth will return, more reforms in the works

He said the pandemic might have applied the brakes on the speed of the economic growth, but the country had left behind the phase of lockdown and entered the first phase of unlocking.

IN PICS: 5 Key takeaways from PM Modi's video address at CII annual session

"Getting growth back is our motto, too, as we reopen the economy. India will get its growth back," Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his address

India will return to growth, won't depend on others: PM Modi to India Inc

'Getting growth back is not so difficult after all,' Modi says in speech to Confederation of Indian Industry

Sooner than later, govt will accept our suggestions on economy: Chidambaram

A stubborn government has no choice and must listen to experience and wise counsel, says Chidambaram

Cabinet likely to discuss proposals under Atma Nirbhar Bharat on Wednesday

These could include the much-talked-about proposal allowing commercial coal mining and may also include an ordinance on freeing up inter-state trade in agricultural commodities.

I've to be careful, am answerable to Parliament: FM Nirmala Sitharaman

Nirmala Sitharaman tells Indivjal Dhasmana & Nivedita Mookerji that the government has made sure that mistakes committed during 2008-2013 are not repeated while announcing the Rs 20-trillion package.