Articles for Expenditure Spending

India’s GDP growth shocker: Bad news can be good too
2 weeks, 5 days ago

India’s GDP growth shocker: Bad news can be good too

Live Mint  

India’s growth in gross domestic product of 5.4% in the three months ended 30 September, or the second quarter of 2024-25, was a shocker. It’s the lowest level seen since the third quarter of 2022-23 and a sharp drop from 8.1% growth in the same period last year and also from 6.7% in the first quarter of 2024-25. Given the …

India Policy Growth Capital Quarter Rbi Gdp
India Needs to Spend More on Healthcare Says Ex-RBI Gov
1 month, 1 week ago

India Needs to Spend More on Healthcare Says Ex-RBI Gov

Deccan Chronicle  

Mumbai: India needs to urgently increase its spending on healthcare and education for accelerating the country’s progress, former Reserve Bank of India governor C Rangarajan said on Friday. He said that India’s healthcare expenditure is currently less than 2 per cent of its GDP, and the government must urgently increase it. Speaking at the ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education, Rangarajan …

India Healthcare Rangarajan
Rise in public health spending due to States, not Centre
7 months ago

Rise in public health spending due to States, not Centre

The Hindu  

Public spending on health in India has historically remained low. Note: Union government spending includes spending by Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Min of AYUSH Furthermore, a significant part of the increase in health investment as a percentage of GDP during the pandemic needs to be attributed to the negative and low growth of GDP, while absolute increase …

Health India States Union Spending Increase Nda
We mustn't spread India’s social sector spending too thin
10 months, 1 week ago

We mustn't spread India’s social sector spending too thin

Live Mint  

India unhesitatingly desires to grow" were the words echoed by our former finance minister, the late Arun Jaitley, when he presented the Narendra Modi government’s first Union budget a decade ago. Its focus was conspicuously on poverty reduction, increasing employment opportunities, equitable development and fighting these challenges under the government’s pet phrase for collective development, “Sab ka Saath, Sab ka …

India Social Budget Indian Sector Schemes Expenditure
Interim Budget 2024: Overall spending likely to see 10% hike, says report
11 months, 1 week ago

Interim Budget 2024: Overall spending likely to see 10% hike, says report

India Today  

The upcoming interim budget for the fiscal year 2024-25 may witness a cautious approach from the government, with an anticipated 10 per cent increase in overall spending compared to the current fiscal year, reported The Economic Times. Despite the economy's robust growth, with a forecasted 7.3 per cent increase in Gross Domestic Product for the fiscal year 2023-24, the government …

Spending Cent Fiscal Capital Expenditure Interim Budget Upcoming Budget
Ukraine war spurs record global spending on military, Stockholm think tank says
1 year, 7 months ago

Ukraine war spurs record global spending on military, Stockholm think tank says

The Hindu  

Global military spending rose to a record last year as Russia's war in Ukraine drove the biggest annual increase in expenditure in Europe since the end of the Cold War three decades ago, a leading conflict and armaments think tank said on Monday. Ukraine's military spending rose 640% in 2022, the largest annual increase recorded in SIPRI data going back …

Military Ukraine Russia Spending Sipri Military Expenditure
Union Budget 2023-24 | Without growth or welfare, a Budget that curtails social spending
1 year, 10 months ago

Union Budget 2023-24 | Without growth or welfare, a Budget that curtails social spending

The Hindu  

Published : Feb 07, 2023 15:57 IST If we ignore the hype that accompanies and follows the presentation of the Central government’s annual Budget, there are principally two strands in it that have attracted attention. The first is the claim of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman that in a growth-accelerating intervention, the step-up in capital or investment expenditure during the second …

Finance Growth Social Budget States Capital Spending
Economic Survey 2022-23 | Out-of-pocket health spending still high, despite hike in government expenditure
1 year, 10 months ago

Economic Survey 2022-23 | Out-of-pocket health spending still high, despite hike in government expenditure

The Hindu  

Almost half of all health spending in India is still paid by patients themselves directly at the point of treatment, although this has dropped as the government’s share of spending on health went up significantly after 2013-14, according to the Economic Survey 2022-23. The share of government health expenditure in total health expenditure was just 28.6% in the financial year …

Health Survey State Crore Expenditure Economic Survey Total Health Expenditure
Reading the Union Budget with state govt spending statistics
1 year, 11 months ago

Reading the Union Budget with state govt spending statistics

Hindustan Times  

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present her fifth consecutive budget on February 1 this year. See Chart 1: Share of central and state spending in total government expenditure in India There was no significant increase in states’ fiscal deficit post-pandemic The union government’s fiscal deficit has seen a sharp increase in the wake of the pandemic. See Chart 2: centre …

India States Spending State Share Chart State Spending
Tamil Nadu polls saw one eye popping ad expenditure
3 years, 7 months ago

Tamil Nadu polls saw one eye popping ad expenditure

Live Mint  

As more and more Indians get connected to the net, online propaganda and political messaging have never appeared as important as it does today. Tamil Nadu’s elections cost more in terms of Google ads than any other election in the country since Feb 2019, the analysis suggests. A recent research paper by the political scientists Ashwani Kumar, Souradeep Banerjee, and …

Elections Tamil Nadu Political States Google Parties Ads