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Opinion | The question of whether India's economic stimulus is adequate
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Supply-side measures could be just as effective in boosting consumer demand as direct fiscal expenditure might have been economic stimulus, Nirmala Sitharaman, fiscal stimulus, consumer demand, Shramik trains, Shramik passengers, Garib Kalyan package, Jan Dhan, indian economy, State disaster relief funding The Union government has been accused of excessive fiscal conservatism by critics who see the fiscal stimulus as not boosting consumer demand sufficiently.
That charge has to be assessed separately from the slow response to the desperate exodus of migrant workers from urban India.
If the Shramik trains had been started two months earlier, during the first lockdown, disease transmission would have been more effectively contained.
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