Anil Trigunayat China has emerged as a force to reckon with in the Middle East after quietly pursuing its strategic, economic, and security objectives for decades while expanding the tentacles of its all-encompassing Belt and Road Initiative. Beijing’s focused approach…
Tikender Singh Panwar The Union Budget 2022-23 has not provided relief to people most severely affected by the pandemic. The Budget was expected to address record unemployment, which spiked during the pandemic in the cities, with some kind of urban…
IMPRI Team MGNREGA is a 20-year-old employment act that guarantees 100 days of work to all households whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. During the pandemic, it has been a saviour to migrant workers who could barely…
IMPRI Team With the onset of the pandemic and the subsequent lockdown, the discourse on crime and crime against women specifically has gained significant momentum. In light of this, it becomes imperative to disentangle various factors that have contributed to…
Devender Singh and Venkatesh Srinivasan National Family Health Survey 5 shows that fertility in India is declining, and the total fertility rate (TFR) has, in fact, reached 2.0, a notch below 2.1, the replacement level of fertility. This, in…
Santosh Mehrotra and Jajati Keshari Parida India’s Social Security Code 2020, which merges eight existing laws, will not do enough to ensure a safety net for informal workers. As much as 91% of India’s workforce of 475 million is informal and…