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While speaking on the issue of enabling innovative finance for MSMEs, Amar Patnaik highlighted the role of SIDBI, and indicated that a similar recommendation has been made by the Standing Committee on Finance.

Cryptocurrencies and CBDCs have the potential to enhance financial inclusion. However, the lack of quantitative data makes it challenging to evaluate their impact. To assess their financial inclusion capacity, we need to consider multiple layers and adapt strategies to local needs and policies.

NOVEMBER 2 ― It’s no secret that Malaysia grapples with gender disparities, ranking 102nd out of 146 countries in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report (GGGR)...

"In the long run, we’re building evidence about which policies work and which policies don't" to help alleviate poverty, one expert says.

“‘In the short run, it’s hard to see how we get back to what we achieved in 2021.’” That was Zachary Parolin, the author of “Poverty in the Pandemic: Policy…

US and G7 sanctions on China in the event of a Taiwan Crisis would focus on the financial sector, individuals, and industry

Small business has much to gain and very little to lose if Congressestablishes Social Security personal retirement accounts. Theseaccounts, which would allow taxpayers to invest a portion of theirSocial Security retirement taxes, would make capital more availableto small businesses without adding any appreciable administrativeburden.

Using the unit-level data from various rounds of the Employment and Unemployment Survey of the National Sample Survey Office, the first consistent time series of the average real farm income per cultivator for 18 major Indian states for 1987–88, 1993–94, 1999–2000, 2004–05, 2007–08, 2009–10, and 2011–12 is presented. Using this data, two sets of issues are studied. First, how

With the number of significant platform transactions reviewed by agencies on the rise, economists and economic analysis are taking a greater role in the assessment of these mergers.

THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it is committed to providing technical assista...