The last four years have seen India make tremendous strides on the ease of doing business. India has climbed to a global rank of 77, out of 190, in the latest report and was also recognised as a top improver for a second consecutive year, a distinction achieved by only nine other countries in...

Poor people are the most vulnerable to shocks arising from sickness, accidents, death or loss of assets due to natural calamities and riots, etc. Micro insurance is the protection of such low-income people against specific perils in exchange for regular premium payments proportionate to the...

India is surrounded by the hostile neighbors. The need for defence of its borders has been on priority since independence. For this purpose defence production has to be upgraded to make it at par with the military power of other countries. The Long-term Integrated Procurement Plan of the...

The talk of bank consolidation first started in the early nineties when the Narasimham committee recommended that there should be three or four big banks, led by SBI, to create global-sized banks, followed by national banks with a countrywide presence and then local and rural banks. Public...

Disinvestments have often been used by the governments as a means to shore up receipts and reduce the fiscal deficit. Disinvestment refers to the sale of shares of Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) by the government. Divestment or disinvestment means selling a stake in a company, subsidiary or...

Last 30-40 years of globalisation have witnessed increasing interdependence among the world nations. Although nations are physically separated, they seem integrated through cross border flows of goods, services, people, capital, information and culture. Foreign Direct Investments, Foreign...

Haryana is one of the progressive states of India and has contributed significantly to India's socio economic development over the last five decades. With an area covering 1.3 per cent of the country, Haryana contributed near 3.63 per cent to India's GDP in 2017-18. Between 2011-12 and 2018-19,...

The world economies, particularly developing economies, are rivals with each other to attract foreign capital. The wave of liberalization and globalization sweeping across the world has unlocked many national markets for international business. Therefore Cross border merger and acquisitions have...

GST was conceptualized for the first time in 1999 during a meeting between the then PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee and his economic advisory panel. On 8 August 2016, the Constitutional Amendment Bill for roll out of GST was passed by the Parliament, followed by ratification of the bill by states and...

Whenever we think of waste, we think only in terms of garbage or solid/semi-solid waste and not anything else. In the last ten years, e-waste has become a global issue. India too generates a large quantity of electronic waste i.e. e-waste every year. Sadly e-waste is something which does not get...