Falling Poverty or Quality of Analysis?
Santosh Mehrotra Surjit Bhalla, India’s Executive Director (IMF), Arvind Virmani, former Chief Economic Advisor under UPA, and…
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Global Unemployment and Inequality during 1991-2019: Reflections from Secondary Data
IMPRI Team Addressing the issue of unemployment and inequality #IMPRI Center for Human Dignity and Development (CHDD),…
INFLATION in 2022: Taming the Poor Indians
Krishna Raj India’s inflation and temperature levels are soaring high, affecting the poor and middle class the…
Soaring Inequalities: Questioning the Unaddressed Challenges of the Union Budget 2022-23
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.
A Curious Case of the Millions of “Disappeared” Poor in India
K.D. Maiti and Santosh Mehrotra The global sustainable development agenda demands that countries measure the population living…
Poverty and Nutritional Security among Women and Children: Challenges and the Way Forward for Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
IMPRI Team The intertwined relationship of poverty and malnutrition cannot be left alone. In spite of social…