While the advanced economies have woken up to the reality that monetary easing alone would not ensure growth, Budget 2021 has made a hasty retreat from the fiscal steps taken in previous... Read more »
Kerala Budget 2021 unveiled a post-doctoral fellowship scheme that will ensure the minimum efficiency wage for skilled research workers, like MGNREGA did in for unskilled labour. Read more »
The central and state governments should incentivise and enhance medical education in public sector with a stipulation of mandatory service of a few years. Read more »
The government should use education cess corpus to create urban learning clusters to ensure online access to deprived classes. Read more »
The Union government can raise up to Rs 40,000 crore to fight coronavirus through a 10% salary challenge. Read more »
The Centre and the state failed to reassure the workers and stop the exodus despite having a corpus in excess of Rs 2,000 crore. Read more »
While India is strong in traditional delivery of education, it needs to invest resources and attention on online modes, says S Krishnakumar. Read more »
The Yes Bank imbroglio has been partially resolved, but the story may have just begun, says S Krishnakumar. Read more »
Tax cuts may not boost demand; higher public expenditure would have done the trick. Read more »
Transfer pricing: The recent OECD-UNDP initiatives can lead to a new model of taxation of multinational corporations. Read more »