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Newsletter | 01 March 2016

Bharat's budget... and India's too If the budget pans out the way the govt wants it to, consumption and investment will get a fillip, without deviation from the commitment to work towards a fiscal deficit target

A social economy budget The most important initiative that will radically change India's political economy is the allocation of nearly Rs.3 trillion to gram panchayats Quality of the fiscal deficit is important: Arun Jaitley The finance minister on the key initiatives taken by the government as part of this year's budget Budget 2016-17: Eight cheers to public sector banks The budget has quite a few things that can bring cheer to the banking industry including the promised capital infusion of Rs25,000 crore

OPINION Deficit vs growth consciousness The budget ticks the boxes on fiscal, revenue and primary deficit parameters. It has also done better on the revenue deficit target and effective revenue deficit target

A sensible fiscal strategy underlying Budget 2016 The main challenge for making Budget 2016 work will be on the numbers front Budget 2016: Where will the money come from? Jaitley and his team will need to be prepared to answer tough questions and explain to sceptical investors that the numbers make sense An admirable balance The budget achieves an admirable balance between fiscal discipline and provision of a stimulus

More on Livemint What we spend: Rs19,780,600,000,000 The quality of the expenditure suggests that the strategy of creating productive assets initiated last year continues Budget 2016: Aadhaar project to be given statutory backing To be a beneficiary in any government scheme, you will need an Aadhaar card, says Jaitley; bill for targeted delivery of subsidies, benefits and services to be tabled in budget session Taxing the rich in a poor country The big changes for your money are at the fringes—both at the lower and the upper ends Budget 2016: intent positive, delivery suspect Central govt capex is up by a mere 3.9% for FY17; revenue expenditure was squeezed tightly in the current fiscal, so it's up by a tepid 5.5%, and total revenue expenditure is projected to grow 11.8%

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