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
