Brazil Congress Attack, Polarization and a Message for Democracies
After a bitter campaign and closer-than-anticipated election results two months back, it had seemed that things were calming down in Brazil.
After a bitter campaign and closer-than-anticipated election results two months back, it had seemed that things were calming down in Brazil.
The upcoming budget, the government’s priority should be not just the lowering of the rate of inflation but steadying the prices of essential items that the poor consume.
According to the Periodic Labour Force Survey of April-June, 2020, the labour force participation of women in urban areas (age above 15 years) was 19.6. According to International Labour Organization (ILO), in 2021 it was 22.3.
This marginalization of the rural economy is a result of the policymakers’ focus being on the organized part — the modern part of the economy. Modernization of the economy has been taken to be the copying of western modernity. India has not attempted its own modernity suited to the needs of the vast majority living in rural areas. No wonder the agriculture sector which provides the most important item of consumption — food — has been marginalized.
Xi’s revenge ‘you are on your own now’ policy came following nationwide protests in late November against Xi’s oppressive ‘Zero Covid’ policies.
Market-distorting fertilizer/power subsidies must go.