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    Micro-estimates of wealth data ‘can help tackle poverty’

    Around 97 million people were pushed into extreme poverty in 2021. Now, researchers at the University of California and the Data for Good programme...
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    India should spend its way out of post-COVID-19 economic crisis

    In view of the structural break in the global economy as well as the domestic economy, the government’s budget plans should be two-pronged —...
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    India

    Budget 2022: Government faces Hamletian dilemma on subsidies

    The government would like to cut subsidies in Budget 2022, but the question is whether it can afford to do it just ahead of...
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    Civil society

    Human rights violations and culture of impunity in SouthAsia

    South Asian countries are grappling with the erosion of democratic norms, growing authoritarianism, the crackdown on freedom of press, speech and dissent, a report...
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    Inequality doesn’t kill. Destitution kills.

    From the perspectives of developmental economics, economic equality is not the greatest of virtues; neither is economic inequality the worst of vices. By Anuj Kumar...
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    Health

    Why is the National Health Authority so focused on the for-profit medical sector?

    India’s health system needs transformative reforms. An institutional arrangement like the NHA legitimises the role of the “for-profit” private sector in government. Commercial or...
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    Civil society

    Richest 98 Indians own the same wealth as the bottom 55.2 crore people: Oxfam

    The richest 98 Indians own the same wealth as the bottom 552 million people, the India supplement of Oxfam's Inequality Kills report of 2022...
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    COVID-19

    Slowdown due to COVID-19 expected to carry on into next year says UN report

    A UN report alludes to the 240,000 lives stolen by the COVID-19 delta wave in India and warns that the global economic recovery is...
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