Like Bollywood, rating agencies underrate emerging faces: CEA Subramanian

Fiscal expansion, as suggested by the Economic Survey, will be funded by disinvestments, borrowing and both direct and indirect tax receipts, he says

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CEA Krishnamurthy Subramanian | Budget 2021 | Economic Survey

Shrimi Choudhary 

A day after the Economic Survey for 2020-21 was tabled in Parliament, its author and Chief Economic Advisor Krishnamurthy Subramanian says that the government has been holding internal deliberations with credit rating agencies and other stakeholders over ratings actions as the country's economic fundamentals demand a much higher sovereign rating. He tells Shrimi Choudhary that fiscal expansion, as suggested by the Survey, will be funded by disinvestments, borrowing and both direct and indirect tax receipts.

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First Published: Sat, January 30 2021. 20:49 IST
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