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Young Indian Women are being Let Down in Labour Market. What Governments Must Do
Create more formal sector jobs in labour-intensive industries, improve skills for women with secondary and primary school level education, and bolster social sector spending that creates frontline and community mobilisation work in nutrition, education and health.
Has Budget 2023-24 Been Successful in Balancing Gender Priorities?
Ahead of International Women’s Day, the article categorises and analyses scheme allocations through the Union Budget’s Gender Budget Statement (GBS), by looking at what schemes various ministries and departments prioritise under the two parts of the GBS.
Paper Power: The State Rules by Files, Notices, Circulars, Orders
Paper in the form of files, circulars, government orders are at the heart of India’s bureaucratic tradition
Decoding Exclusion (Episode 3) with Mridusmita Bordoloi
This interview series is produced by the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, under the Kotak-Karma Vidhi Inclusive Education programme. This interview series is based and born from Vidhi’s report, “Clearing the Air: A Synthesised Mapping of Out of School Children during COVID-19 in India (April 2020-May 2022)”.
Continue The Additional Foodgrains Scheme: A Critical Lifesaver During COVID, It Remains Greatly Needed
The Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana’s five additional kilograms of foodgrains per person kept hunger at bay for 80 crore people during the pandemic. Economic conditions remain just as dire for the poor. High inflation makes extra purchases of foodgrains at market rates to meet their household needs an unlikely proposition.
Does Nirmala Sitharaman’s Last Full-Budget Set Her Apart From Her Predecessors?
In a pre-election year, the government’s decision to steer clear of populist promises, cut down on social sector allocations and place big bets on infrastructure signals a major shift in political strategy
Data Check: Centre Has Increased Budget for Housing Scheme, Although Older Targets Haven’t Been Met
Nearly three-fourths of the houses sanctioned under PMAY-Gramin and half the houses targeted under PMAY-Urban have been completed.
Union Budget and the Unresolved Tensions in National Policymaking
In the pandemic years, the government made a concerted effort to clean up its act and restore the credibility of its fiscal math
Emerging from COVID-19: Challenges and Solutions
As India emerges from the Covid-19 pandemic, economists will have to rethink how they understand the Indian economy in context of global volatilities. In this panel, moderated by Amartya Lahiri, Viral Acharya, Yamini Aiyar and Pronab Sen discuss both the macroeconomic implications of growth, infrastructure and public policy, and the microeconomic concerns of whether we are creating enough good jobs, ensuring welfare, and reducing income inequality.