Arun Jaitley's budget of understatement
India
Gita Gopinath, professor of economics at Harvard University, spoke to Open on the first Budget presented by the Narendra Modi government
If the first Budget after a strong mandate is one for big ideas and agenda setting, how does Jaitley’s 2014 Budget compare with Pranab Mukherjee’s 2009 one?
How the Finance Minister drafted his first budget and his own indispensability to the Modi agenda
Jaitley mentioned the word cities 17 times, underscoring his Prime Minister’s vision of smart cities
A Budget that captures the spirit of Modi’s modernisation
Arun Jaitley’s maiden Budget lays the foundation for growth on the wreckage left behind by his predecessor
Voices
Now with Shah in the party headquarters and Modi in South Block, there is harmony between the organisation and the Government