Economy

Sovereign green bonds raise a question that sounds impossible. Why would an investor knowingly accept a lower return on one government bond than on another government bond of identical risk and maturity, issued by the same borrower? The answer is a single word that this month’s data made newsworthy, and it is a word very … Read more

UPI at 10 years is the second anniversary assessment in this cluster. In July we looked at nine years of the Goods and Services Tax. The two are worth reading together, because they are the same kind of story told twice: a system built to solve a domestic problem that ended up producing data nobody … Read more

The Minimum Support Price regime is the rare policy where almost everyone is partly right. Farmers who want it legally guaranteed are right that market prices collapse at harvest. Economists who warn against that guarantee are right that it would distort cropping patterns and strain the budget. An answer that picks a side and argues … Read more

Nine years of GST gives you an anniversary with nine years of data attached, which is the most answerable form an examination question on a tax reform can take. And there is a detail in it that most candidates will miss entirely: GST collections have quietly become one of India’s most useful high frequency economic … Read more

The RBI monetary policy June 2026 review is an unusually good one to learn on, because the rate did not move while everything around it did. Monetary policy questions look intimidating until you notice something. The Reserve Bank does only three things in every review: it sets a rate, it declares a stance, and it … Read more

The revision of the Index of Core Industries base year from 2011-12 to 2022-23 is the direct sequel to the wholesale price index revision, and it carries something the earlier story did not: a published linking factor. If you read yesterday’s article on the WPI base year 2022-23, you already know why base years are … Read more

The shift to the WPI base year 2022-23 is, for an Indian Statistical Service aspirant, the single most useful current affairs topic of the year. Stop and read this one twice. Most current affairs topics are shared with every other examination in the country. This one is yours. It sits inside your General Studies paper, … Read more