Status of Employment in India – FY23
Periodic labour force survey (PLFS) for FY23 (July’22 to June’23) shows a significant decline in unemployment rate (UR) over previous years. While the share of salaried jobs has declined over…
How Effective Is Monetary Policy in Controlling Inflation?
CPI (consumer price index) based inflation declined from a peak of 7.8% in April’22, when MPC started raising rates, to 4.3% by May’23. It appeared that the monetary tightening has…
Corporate Analysis – Tata Steel
Tata Steel reported losses for the latest quarter ended Dec’22. Coming soon after an exceptional FY22, this shows the vulnerability of its international business which overshadows the strong domestic financials.…
Industry Analysis – Oil Refining
Crude oil refining industry in India has carved a niche for itself despite huge dependency on crude oil imports, price volatility and above all, an economic imperative to keep the…
Semiconductor Industry & India’s Efforts to Get a Foothold
The conclusion of ‘Semicon India’ recently has further brought focus on India’s effort to build an ecosystem for semiconductor manufacturing in the country. The re-initiation of $10 bn worth of…
Producer Price Index (PPI) – Is It Better Than WPI??
Inflation is core of any discussion on economic & policy issues as any increase in price affects the entire nation. This also prompts economists to strive to find as precise…
Government Infrastructure Projects – The Progress & The Delays
Government’s thrust on speedy implementation of infrastructure projects seem to gaining momentum with 330 projects getting completed during FY23. This contrasts with average of 80 till FY18. Yet, large number…
Rs 2,000 Note Withdrawal – Tracking the Money Flow
The announcement of withdrawal of Rs 2,000 currency note from circulation has not caused panic like in case of 2016 demonetization for variety of reasons. From an academic perspective, it…
HDFC-HDFC Bank Merger – The Logic & The Gains
The merger of HDFC-HDFC bank, announced in April’22, has come into effect from 1st July’23. Below is the article analyzing the merger, as published on 5th April’22. The announced merger…
Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (IBC) – Analyzing the Performance
Corporate insolvency resolution process gathered momentum in FY23 after several years of efforts to streamline it. For FY23, not only the total cases resolved rose significantly, the recovery rate also…