188 : India Budget 2011-12: Scoring Low on Politics
Amitendu Palit, Head (Development & Programmes) and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the ISAS
7 March 2011
Politics, not economics, was the main worry for the Government of India on the eve of the latest budget. The budget tried to maintain economic momentum and also address concerns over black money and governance. While it scores reasonably well on the economic front, this paper argues that its political impact may be diluted due to lack of signals on a firm action agenda.