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Global Economic Developments

18/01/2017

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The United States Federal Reserve’s (US Fed) decision to raise interest rates by 25 basis points could have a significant impact on global economic growth. The Fed has decided to go “hawkish” this quarter and Fed Chief Janet Yellen’s commentary on future rates hikes has led to negative reaction …


Compelling Fiscal-Monetary Policy Linkages in the Event of Demonetisation

23/12/2016

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The demonetisation of 500 and 1000 rupee notes was announced by the Prime Minister on November 8, 2016; since then, there has been a growing interest in understanding fiscal-monetary policy linkages. This article revisits these compelling policy linkages. Increasingly, there is an alarming tendency of segregating the monetary and …


Gender Budgeting as a Mechanism Design

06/12/2016

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With the commitment of IMF in United Nations Secretary General’s High level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, the issue of gender budgeting has reached the world stage as a human development-conscious economic growth agenda. 
 
The commitment of IMF in November 2016 to conduct gender budgeting in …