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Finance Dept. urges govt. depts. to prepare 2024-25 Budget with extreme austerity. Estimates must be realistic & accurate, revenue & dues to be accelerated. Economy measures may require dropping uneconomical schemes & putting off activities. Deadline for non-plan expenditure is Sept. 5, plan expenditure Sept. 10 & revenue estimates &…

A woman in Tamil Nadu is likely to be educated, to work, and to find work in a modern sector of the economy. But she is also likely to be paid far lower than men for the same work, and experience segregation in the workplace.

The Sixteenth Finance Commission has much work ahead

Former Fed chair appointed as Bank faces pressure to explain why economic forecasts have been so wide of mark

Britain’s earnings gap is growing as business services, finance and IT workers prosper, thinktank finds

A string of encouraging reports is raising hope about the economy — but worries of a possible recession have not gone away. Here's why.

The White House wallowed in a bit of good news last week when the Labor Department revealed that inflation in June had cooled to its lowest pace — 3% — in more than two years. Still, Fed officials have signaled that another rate hike is coming because they don’t want…

The new Standing Committee on Statistics can pro-actively try to bridge the trust deficit between India’s once-revered statistical system and data users

The labour market has proved resilient, with the jobless rate coming in at 3.5 per cent and 33,000 new jobs added to the economy.

The UK is lagging behind other G7 countries, as a new poll indicates there’s a stark gap in confidence between small businesses in the UK and…

Japanese employees earn only three-quarters as much as developed-country peers over 30 years after asset bubble burst.