https://mainstreamweekly.net/ Mainstream Weekly ISSN (Mainstream Online) : 2582-7316 Author Submission Guidelines Mainstream's Privacy Policy Donate to Support Mainstream Weekly en SPIP - www.spip.net https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH42/siteon0-5599c.jpg?1780229567 https://mainstreamweekly.net/ 42 144 https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1542.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article1542.html 2009-07-27T15:44:30Z text/html en Pulin B. Nayak <p>Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's Budget for 2009-10 seems to have received mixed responses. It is clear that the corporate sector is not very pleased with it. We are also told that it has nothing for the urban sector, and that it is too heavily biased towards the rural populace. It is also true that the Budget leaves too big a resource gap, with the fiscal deficit figure being 6.8 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP), which is more than double of the earlier fixed Fiscal (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique102.html" rel="directory">July 2009</a>