Fiscal Matters Handbook!

We are absolutely thrilled to release the first edition of our Fiscal Matters Handbook, a concise reference book about India’s Public Finances.

Public finances play a crucial role in understanding the short-term as well as medium-term prospects for any economy. The kind of taxes the government levies, the amount of taxes it collects, the money it spends, and the areas where it spends it, along with the consequent budget deficits (or surplus) are more than just numbers. They tell us the government’s policy focus and how that is flowing through the real economy in terms of hard money. Public finances also impact several economic variables – be it growth or inflation, interest rates, exchange rates and even the stock markets.

So this is our endeavour to improve the understanding of public finances in totality as well as separately for the Centre and the States (and each State in itself). In over 120 pages and 4 sections, the handbook summarises the key short and medium-term trends in Public finances. From the way the government collects its revenues to how it spends and how much deficit it runs. How the revenue and expenditure pattern of the Central government differs from that of the State governments and how the different states differ from each other in terms of their revenue and expenditure profiles.

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