Is the Curse of Inflation Over?
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.
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A Socio-Economic Analysis of Health Seeking Behaviour of Women and their Employment Status in Urban India
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.
Indian Rural Economy: A Closer Look at the Issues
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.
From Zero COVID to Zero Control: The Xi Way
Xi’s revenge ‘you are on your own now’ policy came following nationwide protests in late November against Xi’s oppressive ‘Zero Covid’ policies.
Farm Subsidies: A Need for Remodeling
Market-distorting fertilizer/power subsidies must go.
The India-Egypt Ties: An Economic Perspective
Consistent with India’s new generation of intertwined economic and security agreements to facilitate its emergence as one of the major powers, India has invited President El Sisi of the Arab Republic of Egypt (henceforth Egypt), as a Chief Guest for the Republic Day celebrations on January 26, 2023. There is significant scope for mutually beneficial cooperation in international trade and in macroeconomic and fiscal management between India and Egypt, an influential nation of over 100 million people, straddling Asia and Africa, as explained below.
Mission Karmayogi: Civil Servants Capacity Building Program
Prime Minister stated “Mission Karmayogi is a new experiment of its kind in the direction of capacity building. Through this mission, government employees have to modernize their thinking, and approach and improve their skill set. It is to allow them to become a Karmayogi…”Moreover, Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba launched the Approach paper on Annual Capacity Building Plans for Central Ministries and Departments under “Mission Karmayogi”