{"id":394317,"date":"2021-01-11T08:30:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T03:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=394317"},"modified":"2021-01-11T09:15:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T03:45:45","slug":"economists-urge-pm-modi-to-push-privatisation-increase-infra-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/economists-urge-pm-modi-to-push-privatisation-increase-infra-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Economists urge PM Modi to push privatisation, increase infra spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top economists on Friday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to aggressively push privatisation of state-owned enterprises, avoid challenging international arbitrations and increase infrastructure investment, saying these were essential to build investor confidence. <\/p>\n<p>Participating in a virtual meeting with the Prime Minister, some economists suggested that the government could take a lenient view on fiscal deficit in the forthcoming Budget for 2021-22 due to the urgency to revive the pandemic-hit economy, sources said. <\/p>\n<p>According to the sources, the participants urged the government to come up with policies to increase exports and build investors&#8217; confidence as despite multiple structural reforms across sectors, investments are still not flowing into India in a big way. &#8220;There is a need to boost investor confidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top economists on Friday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to aggressively push privatisation of state-owned enterprises, avoid challenging international arbitrations and increase infrastructure investment, saying these were essential to build investor confidence. Participating in a virtual meeting with the Prime Minister, some economists suggested that the government could take a lenient view on fiscal deficit in the forthcoming Budget for 2021-22 due to the urgency to revive the pandemic-hit economy, sources said. According to the sources, the participants urged the government to come up with policies to increase exports and build investors&#8217; confidence as despite multiple structural reforms across sectors, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}