Investments, employment, and consumption are the three burning issues facing India in 2024. Did the government’s latest fiscal budget deliver on all three? At a deeper level, should a fiscal budget solve problems on these aspects? You have read, seen and heard all the immediate analysis and number crunching around Budget 24. Listen in for a deeper analysis of what lies beyond these numbers, the allocations, the promises and the balancing. Can the government really create jobs? Have PLIs been successful? Should we worry about concentration of wealth, falling FDI and declining govt spend as a percentage of GDP? Should the budget document be fiscally prudent and little else? Join host Arijit Barman as he speaks to economist, columnist and dissector extraordinaire of the Indian economy Swaminathan Aiyar on all this and more.