Insights, a blog published by IMPRI.
Krishna Raj The interrelationship between climate change, public health, and Covid-19 is well established. Especially, the Economic Cost of Climate change is pervasive and increasingly observed in Public health in the recent Covid-19 pandemic. This begs a very genuine question…
Although women are disadvantaged in different walks of life everywhere, they enjoy much better status in some societies than others. Perception regarding women’s rights and abilities vary starkly across countries. For instance, while only 1.8% and 5.2% of respondents of the World Values Survey[1] agree with the statements that “men make better political leaders than women do” and “men should have more right to a job than women in times of scarcity” in Iceland, the corresponding numbers are 89.4% and 83% for Egypt. The averages from over 130,000 responses from 83 countries for the two statements are 36.1% and 32.4%, respectively.
T K Arun India swooned to the swoosh and thump of a javelin that hit its golden mark at the Tokyo Olympics, moved to withdraw a ‘retrospective’ tax provision, and saw the Supreme Court uphold the sanctity of arbitration as…
A starved judiciary with only 19.78 judges per million population —in contrast, the US has 150 per million— is a reason enough to slap litigation costs of ‘drag litigation’ upon administrative heads of institutions.
As Indian sportspersons are shining on the grounds of Tokyo Olympics, the country, and indeed the world, is beginning to hear their amazing stories. These are stories of struggle, passion, aspiration and stunning talent. Whether boxers or hockey players or wrestlers and javelin throwers, these men and women come from hitherto unheard of locations on the map of India…Nongpok Katching in Manipur, Simdega in Jharkhand, Sundergarh in Odisha, Golaghat in Assam.
The Essential Defence Services Bill, 2021, prohibits workers engaged in essential defence services from striking work especially in light of the decision to corporatise the Ordnance Factory Board. The Bill, 2021, violates two resolutions of the International Labour Conference, which provides guidelines for ILO’s policy, and emphasise the recognition of the right to strike. ILO’s Committee on Freedom of Association considers the right to strike as one of the essential means available to workers for the protection of their interests and explains how trade unions will be rendered powerless.
T K Arun An article in the Economic Times by Abhishek Banerjee purported to bust some myths about the Kerala model and its success in handling the Covid epidemic but presented itself as the venting of frustrations of those smarting…