1. What is a social stock exchange? 1.1 Social stock exchanges are dedicated platforms that allow investors to purchase stakes in social enterprises, volunteer groups and welfare organizations. Contrary to most capital market exchanges that allow firms to be listed when they meet certain business criteria (see here for Security and Exchange Board of India’sRead more
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1. Introduction 1.1 The Union budget for 2020 was declared on 01 February 2020 by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. This was the second budget presented by the Narendra Modi government in its second term. The budget speech is available here and the key highlights of the budget are available here. This blog presents the keyRead more
1. Preliminary 1.1 ‘Budget Speeches Analysis’ is Ikigai Law’s project initiated to (i) identify trends in the word frequency[1] of different keywords in India’s budget speeches, and (ii) compare them against trends in different economic parameters particular to India. This project applies simple analytical tools to detect patterns and derive fresh insights from budget speeches, whichRead more
1. Preliminary 1.1 ‘Budget Speeches Analysis’ is Ikigai Law’s project initiated to (i) identify trends in the word frequency[1] of different key words in India’s budget speeches, and (ii) compare them against trends in different economic performance parameters particular to India. Essentially, this project attempts to apply simple analytical tools to detect patterns in budget speeches,Read more
1. Preliminary 1.1‘Budget Speeches Analysis’ is Ikigai Law’s project initiated to (i) identify trends in the word frequency[1] of different words in India’s budget speeches, and (ii) compare them against trends in India’s economic parameters. Essentially, this project attempts to apply simple analytical tools to detect patterns in budget speeches, which would otherwise not beRead more
1. Preliminary 1.1 The 5-Institute budget seminar on ‘The Union Budget 2019-20: Reforms and Development Perspectives’, was held on 22 July 2019. This seminar brought together five policy experts who shared their thoughts on the union budget 2019 (“Budget”) presented by the National Democratic Alliance – II (“NDA-II”) government on 5 July 2019. The sessionRead more
1. Preliminary 1.1. The Ananta Aspen Centre held its second seminar in its ‘Economy & Policy’ series of events on 01 August 2019. The seminar was on the topic, ‘What are the priorities for the economic growth for India 2019-20? – The Union Budget and After’. This seminar brought together three economic policy expertsRead more
1. Preliminary The union budget of India for the year 2019-2020 was presented by finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 05 July 2019. This was the National Democratic Alliance – II (“NDA-II”) government’s first budget. Shortly after Sitharaman’s presentation of the budget, IndiaSpend, a non-profit organization that uses open data to analyse India’s socio-economic issues, publishedRead more
The 2018 budget featured a number of announcements that may be of interest to anyone engaged with the technology sector or the startup ecosystem. This note takes a look at some of these announcements in order to identify how the business environment may be impacted by the 2018 Budget Economic Growth in the last year:Read more