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        • ESG Stands For Future-Proofing Business: Dipankar Ghosh

          Concepts of sustainable finance or responsible investment are here to stay, and, increasingly, businesses need to demonstrate their ESG quotient to attract money. Capital markets, globally, are networked like never before, and alternatives will be difficult if red flags are raised about a business by any investor 

          Dipankar Ghosh - March 28, 2023
        • Get Rid Of The E, S & G Of The ESG: Aswath Damodaran

          Aswath Damodaran is a fierce critic of the environmental, social and governance (ESG) concept. The corporate finance and valuation guru at the Stern School of Business at New York University believes that he “can stir the pot” on this issue. In an email interview with Rajiv Tikoo, Damodaran questions the basis of the ESG concept and its “hindsight revisionism” in the context of the Adani episode and the Ukraine war

           

          Rajiv Tikoo - March 28, 2023
        • Govt Wants To Remove All Tax Exemptions: P. Chidambaram

          Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget for 2023–24 may have promised further momentum to the economy through a push on infrastructure, but, according to the opposition, it has failed to address the needs of the poor and the middle class. Congress leader and former finance minister P. Chidambaram tells Pragatti Oberoi how the government’s claims on allocations for infra projects could be exaggerated and the budget could push the middle class away from saving money. Edited excerpts:

          Pragatti Oberoi - February 27, 2023
        • On Growth Trail Of A Microfinancing Entity

          Microfinance has been globally recognised as a key enabler for financial inclusion. Anushree Jindal, founder of Svamaan Financial Services, talks about five factors that determine the success of a microfinance company

          January 02, 2023
        • Green Attracts Green In India’s ESG Era

          Proponents of sustainable financing are in search of enabling policies, regulations and disclosures to realise its potential in India

          Rajiv Tikoo - August 28, 2022
        • A Real Image Of The Real Economy

          In his latest book, The $10 Trillion Dream, author Subhash Chandra Garg, former Finance and Economic Affairs Secretary, Government of India, does a comprehensive analysis of policymaking over the years while talking about how it can define narratives

          January 28, 2022
        • One Nation, Many Burdens

          The GST system of indirect taxation completes five years in 2022, and it already seems to have caused cracks in the idea of fiscal federalism. States feel shortchanged at losing revenue year after year. Was it worth surrendering their taxation powers to a GST Council that tends to agree with the Centre?

          Kamalika Ghosh - January 28, 2022
        • The Whole Notion Of Federalism Is Broken, Says PTR

          The Tamil Nadu finance minister Palanivel Thiagarajan tells Kamalika Ghosh how the GST system can be tweaked in the interest of states

          Kamalika Ghosh - January 28, 2022
        • The Humble Economist

          Outgoing CEA KV Subramanian’s idea of capitalism is a marriage between the invisible hand of markets and dharma 

          Kamalika Ghosh - November 28, 2021
        • Will small finance banks regain their mojo?

          Just as euphoria was building around the banks, extended lockdown and poor collections came crushing in. The impact is now showing on their books

          V Keshavdev - August 03, 2021