Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
A Amarender Reddy The National Food Security Act 2013, supported by a strong network of ration shops spread across India, provided much-needed help during the pandemic as the government shifted emphasis to redistribution and welfare schemes and saved many lives…
Political parties are outdoing each other promising free electricity and water, laptops, cycles, mixies, etc.. Implementation of these promises will have economic implications that are not negative in the present circumstances. Disdainfully these are called `freebies’ and characterized as fiscally imprudent. The well-off and businesses get `freebies’ euphemistically called `incentives’. Since 2006, the Union Budget estimates them to be between Rs.4 and Rs.6 lakh crore each year. If the well-off who don’t really need `freebies’ can get so much, why can’t the marginalized (especially the women and the young) get a fraction of it?
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…
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…
Budget proposals bode well for the infrastructure sector. However, unless the Government’s plan is backed by institutional reforms, we will not be able to exploit the true potential of urbanization
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…