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Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.

Queer Identity and Rights: Experiences From Assam

Decoding the prevailing conditions of the Assamese queer community from an insider point of view, Dr Prateeti Barman, an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assam downtown University, Guwahati, Assam, shared with the attendees her own encounters with the LGBTQIA+ individuals on the fourth day of “Beyond Binaries: Understanding Sexual Identities and Queer Rights Issues in India” - a Five-Day Immersive Online Certificate Training Course by the Gender Impacts Study Centre (GISC) on behalf of IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute of India on the instance of Pride Month.

Strategies for India to maintain satisfactory economic expansion amidst a global slowdown

The World Bank has forecast slower world growth, for the current year and the next, at 2.9% and 3%, respectively. Emerging markets and developing economies, which normally gallop ahead of the rest of the world, are expected to grow at just 3.4% this year, with Covid- and zero-Covid-afflicted China growing at a rate slower than the US for the first time in 40 years or so. Does this cripple India's chance of growing at least 7%? It does not, and not because the World Bank pegs India's growth rate at 7.5%, higher than the Reserve Bank of India's own estimate of 7.2%.

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