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Year: 2017
जीएसटी एवं उपभोक्ताओं पर इसका प्रभाव
सूरज जायसवाल
क्या है जीएसटी सरकार राजस्व उगाही के लिए अनेक प्रकार के कर लगाती हैं l...
India’s Transparency Reforms to Curb Illicit Financial Flows
Neeti Biyani
Domestic resource mobilization is crucial for a state to finance development, provide social security and redistribute wealth. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) regard domestic revenue as...
Transparency in Corporate Ownership Key to Breaking India’s Financial Secrecy
Sakshi Rai
Financial secrecy deprives countries, especially developing ones, of key revenue resources by eroding their tax base. India must thus build a robust legal system to lift the veil of secrecy on both...
Is the Union budget still relevant?
Happy Pant
Concerns are being expressed over important economic decisions being taken outside the process of budget formulation. The Union Budget, also referred to as the annual financial statement, is a...
Budgeting for quality education
Protiva Kundu
A long-term policy on teachers’ appointment and teacher’s training, backed by increased spending, is needed. The Union Budget 2017-18 has not shown imagination in planning for many sectors,...
Women’s safety: More rhetoric than reality
Kanika Kaul
Without adequate central funding for the schemes for women’s safety in the Budget, implementation will suffer. The need to address the high levels of crime against women in different parts of...
Union Budget 2017: Swachh Bharat Abhiyan gets good funds but what about water?
Trisha Agarwala
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (SBA), one of the flagship programme’s of the government, has heralded a change in the sphere of sanitation programmes in the country. Though India has made strides in...
Budget 2017: Here are a few black money steps Arun Jaitley did not spell out on Wednesday
Neeti Biyani
The Union Budget 2017-18 tabled in Parliament yesterday was one of many firsts. The Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley began his speech on taxation by acknowledging that the country’s tax-GDP ratio, as...
Why Union Budget 2017 proposals fall short of Modi govt’s commitment towards farmers
Nilachala Acharya
Hardly anybody would quibble over the fact that rural India has been severely impacted with the sluggish agricultural activities and other means of livelihood in the post-demonetization phase. Some...
Merging plan and non-plan
Happy Pant
The Plan and Non-Plan expenditure heads created distrotions in developmental funding which seek resolution. With the government moving away from the system of five-year plans from the next...
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