Slowdown Blues

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Slowdown Blues

Decoding Slowdown: What's ailing India's exports?
There is a mismatch between high-value export items in the world and that of India. From primary and low technology goods, India needs to shift focus to medium and high-tech goods by adopting new technologies and addressing some age-old impediments
Slowdown Blues: How would Ola, Uber cause truck sales to plummet, asks Yashwant Sinha
Sinha also raises doubts about Sitharaman's announcement to organise a mega-shopping festival in India; says "the economies of UAE and India are different"
Slowdown Blues: Sitharaman's Rs 50,000-crore package may turn some exports competitive, but is it enough?
The export community has identified a host of external conditions that are also responsible for the decline in exports, including sluggish global demand and rising tariff war
Slowdown Blues: Industries are going through a tough time; this will pass, says Gadkari
"I know the industries are going through a tough time now. We want to increase the growth rate. Recently, I met automobile manufacturers at all India convention of the automobile industry and all of them were little worried...," says Nitin Gadkari
Slowdown Blues: Govt's Rs 20,000 crore housing sector fund won't help homes with sticker price above Rs 45 lakh
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's announcement of Rs 20,000-crore fund may be a liquidity booster but it will not help in demand creation, which is necessary to rid the sector of unsold inventory and cash crunch
Nirmala Sitharaman's 3rd major presser at 2.30 pm today; likely to make big announcements for real estate sector
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's press conference:The Modi government is battling with the ongoing economic slowdown, which has spread from auto, real estate, manufacturing, FMCG to several other allied businesses
Slowdown Blues: Contrary to Modi govt's aim, exports down by 6% in August; gems & jewellery lose shine
Cumulatively, the exports were down 1.53 per cent to $133.54 billion in the April-August period, while imports contracted by 5.68 per cent to $206.39 billion
Maruti Suzuki hires KPMG, PwC to advise suppliers on how to survive auto slowdown
They also advised the supplier to cut costs in the right places and review planned manufacturing to survive the slump.
Auto Slowdown: Facts, numbers, economics belie FM Sitharaman's Ola-Uber argument
Sitharaman's argument that millennials' preference for Ola and Uber is responsible for dismal auto sales was perceived by the auto industry as an excuse for not slashing excise duties to prop up sales - something the government has been hinting at for a week at least
Start-ups: How to reverse the decline in new companies?
The report, titled 'Turbocharging the Delhi-NCR start-up ecosystem' stated that the number of start-ups founded every year in India had dwindled from a high of 6,679 in 2015 to just 2,036 in 2018