State of Finance in India Report 2021-2022

The State of Finance in India Report is a first of its kind that expands the domain of finance and economics beyond the confines of ivory tower experts. It invites writings from a cross section of academics policy makers activists social practitioners and eminent economists who engage with questions from the ground. Given that finance and money touches and shapes our lives in more ways than one this ensemble of authorship gives the report a certain multidimensional character that allows us to explore the concerns of the day in a much broader as also deeper sense. Wearing a critical alternative and bottom up lens while looking at finance and economy the compilation stands out as it gives us an opportunity to critique the mainstream or dominant view in a language and form that is accessible to a larger audience. The report is a result of the combined efforts of Centre for Financial Accountability the Economic Research Foundation and Focus on Global South. The editorial board comprises C.P. Chandrashekhar Jayati Ghosh Shalmali Guttal Nitin Sethi Joe Athialy Bhargavi Rao and Benny Kuruvilla. State of Finance in India Report 2021-2022 the first edition of the report comes at a juncture when the people and the economy are still in the long shadow of the pandemic. This edition in its main thematic segment attempts to unravel whether we learnt from the crisis or we are precipitating the same follies even in our claims towards recovery. In the second segment called Sectoral Overview the attempt is to highlight developments at a given point in time from a critical point of view of finance and economy across a broad stroke of sectors.