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Thirteenth EGROW Shadow MPC Meeting held on 1st December

Key takeaways and Inputs from Experts

EGROW Webinar by Resmi P Bhaskaran, Kuldeep Kaur, Mandeep Kaur Kochar, Rakesh Batabyal and Vijaylakshmi Balakrishnan

EGROW Webinar by Prakash Loungani

EGROW Webinar by Hans Genberg

EGROW Webinar by Kamal Jani, Subash Kalia and Madan Sabnavis

EGROW & MIT Club Webinar by Arvind Virmani

EGROW Webinar by Richard Koss

EGROW Webinar by Anjini Kochar

EGROW Webinar by Avinidhar Subrahmanyam

EGROW Webinar by Upinder Sawhney and Dharmakriti Joshi

EGROW Webinar by Ashok Vishandass, C. L. Dadhich, Meenakshi Rajeev, Sukhpal Singh, Lakhwinder Singh and Gopal Naik

EGROW Webinar by Madhurjya Prasad Bezbaruah, Binoy Goswami and Raju Mandal

EGROW Webinar by E. BijoyKumar Singh & Indraneel Bhowmik

EGROW Webinar by Manorajan Sharma, R.K. Anand & Arvind Mohan

EGROW & ASSOCHAM Webinar by Ratna Sahay

EGROW Webinar by Ashok Vishandass

EGROW Webinar by Dr. Arvind Virmani

Recent Events

Thirteenth EGROW Shadow MPC Meeting

on 01-Dec-2020

Event Report

Panel discussion - National Education Policy 2020 - Aspirations and Realizations

on 27-Nov-2020

Event Report

Inequality in India: Welcome or Worrisome?

on 20-Nov-2020

Event Report

Central Banks and COVID-19

on 13-Nov-2020

Event Report

NPAs and Banking Frauds in post COVID-19

on 06-Nov-2020

Event Report

EGROW Expert says - Contemporary issues

Dr. Arvind Virmani, EGROW Foundation

Q1. What has to be done to increase public expenditure?

A1: On the manufacturing side, consumer durables, Capital goods and construction are among the worst sufferers from the Pandemic so far. Existing Public investment & infrastructure programs must be accelerated sharply.

Contact Services like Restaurants, hotels, travel, tourism, retail trade, entertainment, are the worst directly affected by the Pandemic. The only way to revive demand for these services is to undertake public health expenditures which will reduce fears of infection and death from the corona virus. Public health expenditures on communicable and infectious diseases and public health education in media and schools must also be stepped up. The “Swatch Bharat” mission should be expanded to promote the modernization of urban, semi-urban sewage systems. State governments should set up similar schemes for semi-rural & rural areas.

A certification system should also be set up to certify Viral load/viral quality of air in public meeting rooms, halls and other large venues. The government should start a big loan program for manufacture & subsidized purchase of Ultra-violet(UV-C) filtration systems for centrally air conditioned spaces and UV lights for cleaning of all closed public spaces, particularly bars, party rooms and public bathrooms. Ventilation improvements in workplaces, offices, shops and commercial establishment could either be part of this program or be included in phase 2.

Recommendation of EGROW Shadow MPC

Recommendation of the EGROW Shadow MPC Members
1 Member - 50 bp in October
1 Member - 25 bp in October
1 Member - 15 bp in October
3 Members – Pause
Forecast of the EGROW Shadow MPC Members
1 Member – reduction by 25 bp
1 Member – reduction by 15 bp
4 Members - Pause

Time will Tell

By Surjit S Bhalla and Arvind Virmani

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Research

Future of Indian Banking from Public Policy Perspective

Download the paper in pdf … Abstract … Technology and social control on banks has helped in achieving a high degree of financial inclusion but the contribution of banks in channelizing financial savings to productive sectors has been sub-optimal due to large public sector debt and decline in financial savings in an increasingly consumption-driven economy. Desktop analysis of the annual reports of…

Policy for Post-Lockdown Indian Economy

Arvind Virmani

Download the paper in pdf … The Indian economy is during Q2 and Q3 of 2020-21, in the transition from Lockdown to Normalization. Starting around March 21, 2020 the Indian Govt imposed one of the most comprehensive lockdowns, w imposed anywhere in the world. Only essential goods and services, constituting an estimated 40% of GDP and 55% of employment were exempt from the lockdown [Virmani and…

Effectiveness of Containment Policies: Corona Virus Cases and Death Rates

Arvind Virmani

Download the paper in pdf … 1. Introduction … One of the Intriguing questions arising from the Pandemic crisis, is the effect of various social and economic containment/lockdown policies adopted by different governments. Only a few studies have used panel data to estimate the impact of specific containment lockdown measures on the growth of Covid 19 cases and of deaths. In this paper we estimate…

Goods and Services Tax: Structural Reform

Arvind Virmani

Download the paper in pdf … Abstract … The Goods and Service Tax was introduced in 2017 with the objective of simplification of India’s taxation structure, increasing voluntary tax compliance and reducing tax evasion and corruption. Since then, several changes have been made to the GST structure by the GST Council, to resolve some of the challenges faced by the GST regime, but some have added to…