Budget, FY25. Revenue & Expenditure Analysis – Part II
Against total receipt of Rs 32.1 lakh crore, central government is projected to spend nearly Rs 48.2 lakh crore in FY25. Other than interest payments, broad areas which account for…
Analyzing India’s Financial Sector Interconnectedness
Financial structure of a country is a network of institutions such as Banks, NBFCs, HFCs, Insurance companies, mutual funds and so on. All of these are connected to each other…
Government Debt – Analyzing the Movement
Central government’s total debt is projected to increase to Rs 187 lakh crore by the end of FY25, as per the budget projections. This corresponds to an increase of 8.7%…
Budget – Understanding Deficit Terminologies
The budget proposal projects a decline in fiscal deficit (FD) from 5.8% of GDP in FY24 to 5.1% in FY25 whereas revenue deficit is projected to decline from 2.8% to…
Budget 2024-25 – Shunning the ‘Populism’
The ‘interim budget’ for the year 2024-25, presented by the finance minister Nirmala Sitaraman, did not make any populist announcement. The budget did not list out too many new proposals…