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Latest Articles in subsidies
Budget Ruminations: How To Disburse Subsidies
Subsidies should never be based on populist considerations but on well-considered social cost-benefit analyses
Read MoreWelfare Vs Revadis, Some Fresh Thoughts
In a market-driven economy, which we embraced after the reforms of the 1990s, this is justifiable only as a last resort when markets cannot deliver desired outcomes and all other solutions fail
Read MorePoland To Boost Coal Imports, Subsidies Amid Russia Sanctions
The European Union's largest coal producer, dependent on the fuel for some 80 per cent of its electricity generation, in April banned imports of coal from Russia in response to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine
Read MoreStates Doling Out Competitive Subsidies On Brink Of Fiscal Collapse: Report
The report mentions that what is worrisome is that most states, which also include Delhi, tend to fund subsidies, which are mostly non-merit ones, by compressing the capex, due to competitive politics
Read MoreHorticulture Department provides subsidies to farmers to boost fruit plantation in J-K's Poonch
Horticulture Department provides subsidies to farmers to boost fruit plantation in J-K's Poonch
Read MoreSubsidies Won't Help Boost Exports; Need To Focus On Quality, Scale To Meet USD 1 Trn Goal: Goyal
The minister was speaking at a webinar on strategies for alleviating policy constraints for exports in select sectors.
Read MoreUniversal Basic Income Can Work Only If Welfare Schemes Are Phased Out: CEA Arvind Subramanian
The radical idea of giving free money under a universal basic income plan to reduce poverty can work in India only if the plethora of welfare schemes are phased out, Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian has said
Read MoreSubsidy Bill Up Over 3% At Rs 2.4 Lakh Crore In 2017-18
Subsidies on food, fertiliser and petroleum have been pegged higher by over 3 per cent to more than Rs 2.4 lakh crore for 2017-18
Read MoreEconomic Survey Weighs Idea Of Cash Handouts To Fight Poverty
The Economic Survey said universal basic income was a persuasive alternative for replacing existing welfare programmes. Yet it warned about implementation risks and the potential cost to government
Read MorePM Modi To Launch Rs 8,000 Crore Scheme For Free LPG Connections To Poor
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on May 1 launch an ambitious Rs 8,000 crore scheme to provide 5 crore free LPG connections to BPL families using the money saved from 1.13 crore cooking gas users voluntarily giving up their subsidies
Read MoreLPG Subsidy In Bank Accounts Has Saved Rs 15,000 Crore: Narendra Modi
The Prime Minister said the Jan Dhan and Mudra Yojanas were also very successful and helped more than 20 crore families to open their bank accounts and Rs 1.25 lakh crore of loans are being disbursed
Read MoreLok Sabha Passes Aadhaar Bill To Further Empower Citizens
Thousands of crore rupees will be saved by routing government subsidy through the Aadhaar system, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Friday
Read MoreFood Ministry Seeks $20 Billion In subsidies For 2016-17
India's food ministry wants Rs 1.40 trillion in subsidies for the next fiscal year, a rise of 13 per cent from the previous year, to run a mammoth food welfare programme after two successive droughts
Read MoreSubsidies Will Not Be Eliminated But Better Targeted: Modi
PM says unnecessary controls and distortions will be eliminated, promises efficiency in allocation of resources
Read MoreIndia Disappointed With WTO Declaration At Nairobi Meeting
According to the draft decision on cotton, the members decided to phase out export subsidies for developed nations immediately, while it has been marked for developing countries not later January 1, 2017
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