Coalition Politics and Economic Progress
Stock market jitters over economic prospects under coalition rule are misplaced.
The stock market’s volatility index has doubled, from the level seen on April 23rd, as traders worry about a BJP majority.
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Surge in Personal Income Tax (PIT) Reflects Increased Incomes and Economic Disparity
The taxpaying citizens largely belong to the organised sector. Their incomes have risen substantially and they pay more tax.
Xi Jinping’s European Tour: Diplomatic Maneuvers and Strategic Alliances
Chinese President Xi Jinping is trying to win friends and influence people in Europe during his first trip to the continent in five years.
Qualitative Action Research Fieldwork Program- Cohort 2.0
The Generation Alpha Data Centre, at IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi, conducted Public Policy Qualitative Participatory Action Research Fieldwork Fellowship- Cohort 2.0. An Online National Winter School Program. A Four-Month Online Immersive Qualitative Participatory Action Research Fieldwork Certificate Fellowship from December 2023 – April 2024
Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Cohort 2.0
The IMPRI Center for International Relations and Strategic Studies, along with the IMPRI
Impact and Policy Research Institute in New Delhi, organized Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Cohort 2.0, an immersive online certificate training course from April 3rd to April 25th, 2024.
BJP’s touted economic prowess: All bark, no bite
Strengthening all economic parameters, holistic reforms, and focusing on demand and supply are sweeping platitudes, not policy.
Apart from distorting the Congress manifesto as a combination of impractical populism and pandering to Muslims, BJP campaigners have little to offer by way of constructive solutions to the economy’s problems of declining real wages in rural areas, massive unemployment among educated Indians and corporate India’s reluctance to invest, leaving the government to shoulder the burden of building infrastructure and other capital formation to generate growth.
Empowering Single Women: Paving the Path to Equitable Futures in India
On the fifth of August 2022, Ms Supriya Sule, Member of Parliament India of the 17th Lok Sabha, introduced a private members bill titled “The Protection of Rights of Widows and Single Women and Abolishment of Widowhood Practices Bill, 2022”. The Statement of Objects and Reasons of the Bill held that an “ecosystem of neglect leads to millions of widows and single women being pushed into poverty, unable to guarantee a healthy life for themselves and their dependent children” and thus sought to safeguard the rights of widows and single women and to work towards a more equitable, accepting, and progressive society for them.