Falling Poverty or Quality of Analysis?
Santosh Mehrotra Surjit Bhalla, India’s Executive Director (IMF), Arvind Virmani, former Chief Economic Advisor under UPA, and…
Santosh Mehrotra Surjit Bhalla, India’s Executive Director (IMF), Arvind Virmani, former Chief Economic Advisor under UPA, and…
IMPRI Team Addressing the issue of unemployment and inequality #IMPRI Center for Human Dignity and Development (CHDD),…
Krishna Raj India’s inflation and temperature levels are soaring high, affecting the poor and middle class the…
The Union Budget 2022-23 was expected to take steps to tackle the problem of inadequacy of demand so that the economy’s rate of growth could be accelerated. This problem has persisted and had led to the rate of growth slowing down in the last four years. In turn, this problem is linked to the growing inequality in the country, which has been highlighted by several recent reports. The latest report is from the non-profit think tank People’s Research on India’s Consumer Economy [PRICE]. It shows not only the aggravation of inequality but also of poverty since 60 per cent at the bottom who were already poor or close to the poverty line lost incomes.
K.D. Maiti and Santosh Mehrotra The global sustainable development agenda demands that countries measure the population living…
IMPRI Team The intertwined relationship of poverty and malnutrition cannot be left alone. In spite of social…