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    A tale of two pre-election budgets

    One way of judging whether the 2023 budget will be populist is to check whether the budget in 2018 was one

    Manas Chakravarty
    January 12, 2023 / 09:16 IST
    What the 2018-19 budget shows tells us is that while the budget speech, due to political reasons, highlighted social spending, the fact of the matter is that the budget that year didn’t really step up spending (Image: Shutterstock)
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