The Economy and the Budget

The Economy and the Budget Arun Ghosh IT is obviously not possible to attempt a detailed analysis of the budget immediately after the broad outlines are revealed in the budget speech; one needs to study the likely impact of the diverse expenditures proposed and the manner of raising resources for the same. Nonetheless some broad comments are in order since the Economic Survey presented four days prior to the budget contains useful information on the state of the economy, to which the overall aggregates (in the budget) can be related.