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It’s time to tax the wealthy and bridge inequalities

Jyotsna Jha By all accounts, India is considered one of the most unequal countries in the world, and inequality has be...

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RBI’s ‘freebies’ for wilful defaulters makes a mockery of the banking system

Anirban Bhattacharya & Pranay Raj A Reserve Bank of India statement on June 8 has set off a raging debate. The bank ...

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A decent public health system is incompatible with inequality

Mohan Rao What Thomas Piketty shows us in A Brief History of Equality, with solid data over time, is that at the beginni...

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CEA is in a State of Denial

Joe Athialy India’s Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Anantha Nageswaran’s assertion last a few days back as reported by news...

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UN INC-2 ends in frustration as divided nations “lose ground” amid accusations of industry “stonewalling”

The UN’s second round of International Negotiating Committee (INC-2) meetings for a global plastics pollution treaty end...

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Inequality amplifies malnutrition crisis in India

Dipa Sinha That child malnutrition levels in India are high and slow to improve, even when compared with neighb...

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झाबुआ थर्मल पावर प्लांट से निकलने वाली राख स्वास्थ्य और पर्यावरण के लिए एक गंभीर खतरा

Deepmala Patel शर्तों को ताक पर रख कर झाबुआ थर्मल पावर प्लांट की कॉन्ट्रैक्टर कंपनी एवी करियर फ्लाईऐश को गलत जगह पर डंप ...

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A Wasted Effort: A Decade On, Task Force’s Suggestions on Garbage Disposal Have Failed

About a decade ago, in 2013, the Planning Commission constituted the “Task Force on Waste-to-Energy” to identify technic...

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Mind the wealth gap, bridge it with wealth tax

Ishan Anand and Anjana Thampi Inequality in India is at obscene levels. While still home to a very large number of peopl...

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Bye bye reform and human rights, welcome private sector. Unfortunately we will be back!

In another week, on June 2, Ajay Banga will take over as the 14th president of the World Bank Group, the all-men’s club,...

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June 30, 2023

Jyotsna Jha

It’s time to tax the wealthy and bridge inequalities

Jyotsna Jha By all accounts, India is considered one of the most unequal countries in the world, and inequality has been on the rise in recent years. The World Inequality Report 2022 reported that the top 1 per cent in India owns 22 per cent of the total national income, while 10 per cent holds 57...

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June 30, 2023

Anirban Bhattacharya & Pranay Raj

RBI’s ‘freebies’ for wilful defaulters makes a mockery of the banking system

Anirban Bhattacharya & Pranay Raj A Reserve Bank of India statement on June 8 has set off a raging debate. The bank has allowed for write-offs and compromise settlements for even frauds and wilful defaulters frauds “without prejudice to the criminal proceedings underway against such debtors”. Am...

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April 29, 2024

Mohan Rao

A decent public health system is incompatible with inequality

Mohan Rao What Thomas Piketty shows us in A Brief History of Equality, with solid data over time, is that at the beginning of the 20th Century, direct taxes amounted to about 10% of the economy of the UK (and the US and other Western economies). These funds were largely allocated to military expendi...

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June 23, 2023

Joe Athialy

CEA is in a State of Denial

Joe Athialy India’s Chief Economic Advisor (CEA) Anantha Nageswaran’s assertion last a few days back as reported by newspapers, that the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI) was not necessary for India and ‘it may create ground for “perverse incentives” and dissuade people from seeking income-gen...

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March 21, 2024

Louis Gore -Langton

UN INC-2 ends in frustration as divided nations “lose ground” amid accusations of industry “stonewalling”

The UN’s second round of International Negotiating Committee (INC-2) meetings for a global plastics pollution treaty ended in frustration last week after half of the five-day event was spent re-debating procedural rules, such as the treaty’s voting procedure. While the deadlock was eventually broken...

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June 13, 2023

Dipa Sinha

Inequality amplifies malnutrition crisis in India

Dipa Sinha That child malnutrition levels in India are high and slow to improve, even when compared with neighbouring countries such as Bangladesh, does not need belabouring. However, in discussions on the problem of malnutrition in India, inequality does not get its due. First, there is th...

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April 15, 2024

Deepmala Patel

झाबुआ थर्मल पावर प्लांट से निकलने वाली राख स्वास्थ्य और पर्यावरण के लिए एक गंभीर खतरा

Deepmala Patel शर्तों को ताक पर रख कर झाबुआ थर्मल पावर प्लांट की कॉन्ट्रैक्टर कंपनी एवी करियर फ्लाईऐश को गलत जगह पर डंप कर रही है| मध्य प्रदेश के झाबुखा में लगा पावर प्लांट स्थानीय लोगों के लिए मुसीबत बन गया है। फोटो: दीपमाला मध्य प्रदेश के गोरखपुर गांव में स्थित झाबुआ थर्मल पावर प्लांट से निकलने व...

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October 27, 2023

Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran

A Wasted Effort: A Decade On, Task Force’s Suggestions on Garbage Disposal Have Failed

About a decade ago, in 2013, the Planning Commission constituted the “Task Force on Waste-to-Energy” to identify technically feasible, financially affordable and environmentally sound processing and disposal technologies for municipal solid waste in India. The committee headed by K. Kasturirangan, r...

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June 9, 2023

Ishan Anand and Anjana Thampi

Mind the wealth gap, bridge it with wealth tax

Ishan Anand and Anjana Thampi Inequality in India is at obscene levels. While still home to a very large number of people living in destitution, the number of dollar billionaires in India increased from one in the mid-1990s to 166 in 2022. The fortunes of wealthy elites have also skyrocketed over th...

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June 2, 2023

Joe Athialy

Bye bye reform and human rights, welcome private sector. Unfortunately we will be back!

In another week, on June 2, Ajay Banga will take over as the 14th president of the World Bank Group, the all-men’s club, except for Kristalina Georgieva, who had become World Bank’s acting president briefly for a few weeks in 2019. Banga’s nomination (not democratically elected) by the US administra...

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It’s time to tax the wealthy and bridge inequalities

RBI’s ‘freebies’ for wilful defaulters makes a mockery of the banking system

A decent public health system is incompatible with inequality

CEA is in a State of Denial

UN INC-2 ends in frustration as divided nations “lose ground” amid accusations of industry “stonewalling”

Inequality amplifies malnutrition crisis in India

झाबुआ थर्मल पावर प्लांट से निकलने वाली राख स्वास्थ्य और पर्यावरण के लिए एक गंभीर खतरा

A Wasted Effort: A Decade On, Task Force’s Suggestions on Garbage Disposal Have Failed

Mind the wealth gap, bridge it with wealth tax

Bye bye reform and human rights, welcome private sector. Unfortunately we will be back!

It’s time to tax the wealthy and bridge inequalities

RBI’s ‘freebies’ for wilful defaulters makes a mockery of the banking system

A decent public health system is incompatible with inequality

CEA is in a State of Denial

UN INC-2 ends in frustration as divided nations “lose ground” amid accusations of industry “stonewalling”

Inequality amplifies malnutrition crisis in India

झाबुआ थर्मल पावर प्लांट से निकलने वाली राख स्वास्थ्य और पर्यावरण के लिए एक गंभीर खतरा

A Wasted Effort: A Decade On, Task Force’s Suggestions on Garbage Disposal Have Failed

Mind the wealth gap, bridge it with wealth tax

Bye bye reform and human rights, welcome private sector. Unfortunately we will be back!