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The doubtful job promise: ELI pins too much hope on large companies

The doubtful job promise: ELI pins too much hope on large companies

by Prasanna Mohanty |Aug 2, 2025

The new Rs 99,446 crore incentive to create 35 million new jobs in the formal sector over two years pins too much hope on big companies.

India has traditionally been a low fiscal spending state compared to developed economies

Rebooting Economy XXVII: Fiscal mismanagement threatens India's economic recovery

by Prasanna Mohanty |Sep 14, 2020

Not only India's relief packages are grossly inadequate it is not even spending enough to revive demand in the crisis-hit economy; what is needed is clear: more fiscal spending, not "keeping the power...

The best years of growth in national income and income share of the bottom 50% and the middle 40% happened during the "Nehruvian socialism" period

Rebooting Economy 70: The Bombay Plan and the concept of AatmaNirbhar Bharat

by Prasanna Mohanty |Feb 27, 2021

The Bombay Plan, authored by the doyens of industry in 1944 first envisioned state planning, state ownership and control of industries to make India "self-sufficient" long before Nehru's ideas took ro...

India does not have any idea about 94% of its total workforce, which works in the informal sector

Rebooting Economy 69: What do workers gain from growth and profits?

by Prasanna Mohanty |Feb 21, 2021

Persistent negative growth in rural wages and soaring corporate profits accompanied by job and wage cuts demonstrate a clear disconnect between growth/profits and wellbeing of ordinary Indians

Indian banking suffers from non-disclosures of stressed assets (NPAs) - as the RBI's Asset Quality Review (AQR) revealed in 2016

Rebooting Economy 67: Set the record straight before setting up a Bad Bank

by Prasanna Mohanty |Feb 14, 2021

India needs to collect and declare credible data on stressed assets, identify sectors and companies where these are accumulated and be transparent in insolvency resolution before jumping to a new mech...

What compromises the Indian economy further is India's repeated failure to resolve stressed assets over the past few decades

Rebooting Economy 66: Is India facing credit deprivation to warrant corporation banks?

by Prasanna Mohanty |Feb 10, 2021

RBI's database, reports and other evidence show India is credit surplus; large industrial houses have high debt stress, and that easy credit poses serious macro-financial risks to the economy

Banking needs comprehensive structural changes to address stressed assets

Rebooting Economy 65: IBC has failed; will a bad bank succeed?

by Prasanna Mohanty |Feb 7, 2021

At 21% recovery, IBC has performed worse than UPA-era debt recovery mechanisms panned for inefficiencies. The idea of a bad bank is also likely to fail if political interference and poor bank governan...

Just ahead of the budget, the FY20 growth was reduced from 4.2% to 4%, which will lift the FY22 growth rate

Rebooting Economy 64: Budget numbers don't add up to 10% or more growth in FY22

by Prasanna Mohanty |Feb 6, 2021

Little attention to direct income support, health and education deprivations, and revival of small businesses will keep the demand and production of goods and services depressed in FY22

Credible and adequate data is needed for the budget to determine the path to revive demand, incipiently pre-pandemic but worsened due to the lockdown

Rebooting Economy 63: Budgeting FY22 with critical information gaps

by Prasanna Mohanty |Jan 30, 2021

India has no data on jobs lost and businesses shut; no estimate of how many would have slipped into poverty or how income, health and education inequalities would have risen due to the pandemic. How w...

About 2% of Indians invest in stock markets and the number of those familiar with the GDP construct is unlikely to be more

Rebooting Economy 62: Economic growth for whom and for what?

by Prasanna Mohanty |Jan 30, 2021

For people to benefit, the budget needs overhauling to create jobs; revive small businesses; address poverty and health and education deprivations. Pursuing the existing paradigm of growth may push GD...