Electoral Bonds and the Make-Believe Idealist World
Electoral Bonds were brought in for reforming political funding. It wasn't perfect, but the judiciary brought it down for being less than perfect. What is going on?
As the economy goes up or down in the eyes of various analysts.. some figures as they come in:
India’s exports are down year-on-year from last year by 33%. They contracted for 7 months in a row as the demand goes down in the West.[1]
Depending on who you talk to the GDP growth for India will be much slower than the past years but still a respectable figure. The Rating agency Fitch gives a figure of 5% growth in GDP.[2] Meanwhile a survey of 17 forecasters conducted by the Reserve Bank gives a figure of 5.7%.[3]
Reference Links:
1. India April Exports Down 33%
2. India may grow below 6% in FY10: RBI survey
3. India’s growth to slow to about 5 per cent in 2009-10: Fitch
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