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Realising Rights: An Introduction to the Handbook of Welfare in India

An excerpt from Realising Rights: A Handbook of Welfare in India In the 2000s, the character of the welfare regime ...

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Whither State Care? India’s Non-Contributory Pension System

Social protection and social security are crucial components of a country’s development agenda. Social security mech...

Coverage General Indian Economy

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Press Release | New Report Shows Wealth Tax On 1688 Ultra-Rich Families In India Could Generate Over ₹10 Lakh Crore For Welfare: Calls For Wealth Tax

AT A GLANCE The combined wealth of Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani & family, Savitri Jindal & family, Sunil Mittal ...

General Indian Economy Press Releases Wealth Inequality

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100 Days of Economy & Finance: More of the same. But also forced reversals on some fronts

A hundred days isn’t really enough to evaluate the policies of a regime pertaining to finance and economy, but it is eno...

General Publications

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छोटे किसानों की अनदेखी: भारतीय कृषि का अनसुलझा संकट

कृषि अर्थव्यवस्था के जानकार मानते हैं कि खेती को बरकरार रखने,विकसित करने और सबका पेट भरने की अधिकांश जिम्मेदारी छोटे और ...

General Indian Economy

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The OPS, NPS, UPS Pension Debate

CFA Explainers The Unified Pension Scheme (UPS) launched by the government as its compromise formula is being celebrated...

General Indian Economy Publications

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Pension is not a bounty or grace, it is the right of every worker

India is ranked 45th in the Pension Grade System of 47 countries. The USA ranked 22nd is a capitalist country but 1...

General Random Reflections

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How mandatory Aadhaar authentication leads to exclusion of the marginalised from PDS

Issue highlights a systemic failure that undermines constitutional guarantees and perpetuates hardship for the most vuln...

Coverage General Smitu Kothari Fellowship Smitu Kothari Fellowship 2023

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If There Was Political Will, India’s Raging Cost of Living Crisis Could Be Eased

Anirban Bhattacharya and Pranay Raj While the government is happy to externalise the crisis to the invasion of Ukraine a...

Coverage General

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Narendra Modi’s Decade in Power Has Brought a Shrinking Welfare Landscape to India

Asmi Sharma and Nancy Pathak Declining allocations on social welfare spending, and neglect of existing schemes and progr...

Coverage General

September 16, 2026

Dipa Sinha and Rajendran Narayanan

Realising Rights: An Introduction to the Handbook of Welfare in India

An excerpt from Realising Rights: A Handbook of Welfare in India In the 2000s, the character of the welfare regime began to change. From 2004 onwards, major social policies reflected a significant shift towards the language of rights (Chopra 2014). A series of rights-based laws, such as the Nat...

Coverage Debt Crisis & NBFCs General Indian Economy Wealth Inequality

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September 16, 2026

Asmi Sharma and Nancy Pathak

Whither State Care? India’s Non-Contributory Pension System

Social protection and social security are crucial components of a country’s development agenda. Social security mechanisms not only reflect economic growth but also indicate the capacity of the state to deliver welfare to its poorest and most marginalised populations (Sülzer 2008). The Internati...

Coverage General Indian Economy

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September 16, 2026

CFA

Press Release | New Report Shows Wealth Tax On 1688 Ultra-Rich Families In India Could Generate Over ₹10 Lakh Crore For Welfare: Calls For Wealth Tax

AT A GLANCE The combined wealth of Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani & family, Savitri Jindal & family, Sunil Mittal & family, and Shiv Nadar increased by 400% from 2019 to 2025 Ambani’s wealth increased by 153% from 2019 to 2025 while Adani’s increased by a whopping 625% ‎If only a 2% we...

General Indian Economy Press Releases Wealth Inequality

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October 9, 2024

CFA Admin

100 Days of Economy & Finance: More of the same. But also forced reversals on some fronts

A hundred days isn’t really enough to evaluate the policies of a regime pertaining to finance and economy, but it is enough so far as to get the drift. And an overview of the last three months possibly hints at two trends. Firstly, there is no major course correction that the government plans to put...

General Publications

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September 9, 2024

Raj Kumar Sinha

छोटे किसानों की अनदेखी: भारतीय कृषि का अनसुलझा संकट

कृषि अर्थव्यवस्था के जानकार मानते हैं कि खेती को बरकरार रखने,विकसित करने और सबका पेट भरने की अधिकांश जिम्मेदारी छोटे और सीमांत किसान ही निभाते हैं। जहां 70% ग्रामीण परिवार अभी भी अपनी आय के प्राथमिक स्रोत के रूप में कृषि पर निर्भर हों तथा 82 % किसान छोटे एवं सीमांत हों, वहां यह बात वाजिब भी है, लेकि...

General Indian Economy

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September 3, 2024

CFA Admin

The OPS, NPS, UPS Pension Debate

CFA Explainers The Unified Pension Scheme (UPS) launched by the government as its compromise formula is being celebrated by the godi media as the “best of both worlds”, i.e. the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) and the New Pension Scheme (NPS). But a close scrutiny reveals otherwise, but before that, a litt...

General Indian Economy Publications

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September 3, 2024

Thomas Franco

Pension is not a bounty or grace, it is the right of every worker

India is ranked 45th in the Pension Grade System of 47 countries. The USA ranked 22nd is a capitalist country but 100% of its population is covered under a pension system. In most countries the employer, whether government or corporate, has to provide a pension to their employees. In India, pen...

General Random Reflections

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March 25, 2024

Syed Asif Ali Zaidi

How mandatory Aadhaar authentication leads to exclusion of the marginalised from PDS

Issue highlights a systemic failure that undermines constitutional guarantees and perpetuates hardship for the most vulnerable segments of society. Jasoda Munda, 47, a daily wage labourer, had not received rations for the past eight to nine months. She complained that every time she visited the rat...

Coverage General Smitu Kothari Fellowship Smitu Kothari Fellowship 2023

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September 30, 2023

Anirban Bhattacharya and Pranay Raj

If There Was Political Will, India’s Raging Cost of Living Crisis Could Be Eased

Anirban Bhattacharya and Pranay Raj While the government is happy to externalise the crisis to the invasion of Ukraine alone and its effect on fuel prices, it is the food inflation that has seen a much sharper upward swing. “Science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures”: That’s what E...

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September 28, 2023

Asmi Sharma and Nancy Pathak

Narendra Modi’s Decade in Power Has Brought a Shrinking Welfare Landscape to India

Asmi Sharma and Nancy Pathak Declining allocations on social welfare spending, and neglect of existing schemes and programmes, underscore how welfare has come to be constrained in the past ten years. While announcing the government’s disinvestment and monetisation of public assets plan in 2021, Prim...

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Realising Rights: An Introduction to the Handbook of Welfare in India

Whither State Care? India’s Non-Contributory Pension System

Press Release | New Report Shows Wealth Tax On 1688 Ultra-Rich Families In India Could Generate Over ₹10 Lakh Crore For Welfare: Calls For Wealth Tax

100 Days of Economy & Finance: More of the same. But also forced reversals on some fronts

छोटे किसानों की अनदेखी: भारतीय कृषि का अनसुलझा संकट

The OPS, NPS, UPS Pension Debate

Pension is not a bounty or grace, it is the right of every worker

How mandatory Aadhaar authentication leads to exclusion of the marginalised from PDS

If There Was Political Will, India’s Raging Cost of Living Crisis Could Be Eased

Narendra Modi’s Decade in Power Has Brought a Shrinking Welfare Landscape to India

Realising Rights: An Introduction to the Handbook of Welfare in India

Whither State Care? India’s Non-Contributory Pension System

Press Release | New Report Shows Wealth Tax On 1688 Ultra-Rich Families In India Could Generate Over ₹10 Lakh Crore For Welfare: Calls For Wealth Tax

100 Days of Economy & Finance: More of the same. But also forced reversals on some fronts

छोटे किसानों की अनदेखी: भारतीय कृषि का अनसुलझा संकट

The OPS, NPS, UPS Pension Debate

Pension is not a bounty or grace, it is the right of every worker

How mandatory Aadhaar authentication leads to exclusion of the marginalised from PDS

If There Was Political Will, India’s Raging Cost of Living Crisis Could Be Eased

Narendra Modi’s Decade in Power Has Brought a Shrinking Welfare Landscape to India