Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
Prashant Kishor is a modest man. He knows that only one man had ever come in as a total outsider and taken over the leadership of the Congress party, one Mohandas Karamchand. Kishor would not want the world to get the impression that he thinks PK is a close enough substitute for MK, the variation in the initials entirely justifiable on account of the passage of time.
Arun Kumar Automation and electronic processing via net are becoming ubiquitous. E-banking and E-commerce have gained wide acceptance in society, especially during the last two years when mobility was restricted due to the pandemic and periodic lockdowns. Many, especially the…
Anil Trigunayat While the Russia-Ukraine war and the patriotic histrionics of Zelensky, obduracy of Putin and bluffing by the West and incongruity of Biden hog the limelight of media and the paparazzi across the spectrum, the forever wars especially in…
Harsh V. Pant As Russia’s war with Ukraine drags on, India’s engagement with the West has accelerated. Interestingly, instead of the pressure that many had feared would be put on India to toe the Western line on Ukraine, there seems…
Gouri Sankar Nag, Manas Mukul Bandyopadhyay The beagle of retreat of democracy in Pakistan sounds loud with Imran’s exit on 10th April and that is precisely what is really happening now in the ‘garrison state’. Hence our purpose here is…
Amway sells its products by direct selling by its agents. The agents are recruited by agents recruited earlier. A slice of the income generated by each seller is paid to his or her recruiter. This gives every seller an incentive to hire ever more sellers and to encourage every new recruit to hire new recruits themselves. Sellers higher up on the hierarchy of recruitment receive a slice of the income generated by sellers down the hierarchy of recruitment. In this respect, it looks very similar to a pyramid scheme.
The Government of India’s NITI Aayog has got its third Vice Chairman in the eighth year of its existence. On 1 May, economist Suman K. Bery will replace economist Rajiv Kumar, who has been at the helm of the Aayog since September 2017. Interestingly, it has had fewer CEOs. Incumbent Amitabh Kant is only the second CEO of the Aayog, more than six years into his tenure, after the brief one-year stint of Sindhushree Khullar who had carried on from the erstwhile Planning Commission. What does the latest appointment mean for the Aayog which continues to strive to forge a clear identity and role for itself?