Economic Survey for Universal Basic Income Sees slow GDP growth

Economic Survey for Universal Basic Income Sees slow GDP growth

Union finance minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday tabled the Economic Survey 2016-17 in Parliament budget session.

The survey projects the economy to grow in the range of 6.75% to 7.25% in the next fiscal year 2017-18 in the post-demonetisation year.

The survey prepared by chief economic adviser in the finance ministry Arvind Subramanian said the adverse impact of demonetisation on GDP growth will be transitional.The Economic Survey 2016-17 advocates the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI) as an alternative to the various social welfare schemes in an effort to reduce poverty.The shock demonetisation will shave off a good 0.5 percentage point […]

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