Best of BS Opinion: Industrial era GDP measures, gold loans glitter & more

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Uddalok Bhattacharya  |  New Delhi 

indian economy, gdp, growth, investment, economic recovery, revival, jobs
Illustration: Ajay Mohanty

Methods of measuring GDP do not take into account the price of short-changing people. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up

Ajit Balakrishnan speaks of getting GDP to measure India’s data economy

Fleecing of floating-rate borrowers continues, says Debashis Basu

Loan against gold is the best route for monetising the yellow metal, and the Covid pandemic is acting as a catalyst for it, writes Tamal Bandyopadhyay

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has helped reduce black money, increase tax compliance and formalisation and given a boost to transparency PM Narendra Modi on the fourth anniversary of demonetisation

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First Published: Mon, November 09 2020. 06:55 IST
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