-Newsclick.in Inequality is not natural but manufactured. It’s time policymakers stopped normalising the wealth and income gap. Else, post-Covid inequality could become a permanent feature. Wealth and income inequality are more than just economic concepts. They also influence education and health outcomes, poverty levels, employment and unemployment rates, opportunities, choices, and, ultimately, happiness. Of late, several reports have investigated the impact of COVID-19 on various segments of society at the regional, national,...

-The Hindu Business Line New accounting mechanism will help govt manage some savings; Revised Estimate for FY23 to be present in Budget for FY24 Initial indications from Inter-Ministerial meetings on the Budget show no significant cuts in allocations for various Ministries. It will be reflected in Revised Estimate (RE). Still, Finance Ministry could get high savings thanks to the new accounting mechanism. Inter-Ministerial meetings to finalise Revised Estimate for Fiscal Year 2022-23 and...

-Newsclick.in On December 6, the Indian Supreme Court will decide on whether non-transparent political donations are hitting the sovereignty of the Indian people and their right to know. Electoral Bonds, in the transparency and accountability graph, as claimed by the government have some inherently anti-democratic characters. Their key feature of anonymity enables a system where people do not know who are giving/donating money to the political parties they then are voting for....

-The Telegraph Monthly economic review of Finance ministry says that there is no 'room for complacency on inflation front' The rice and wheat stocks of the central government have shrunk alarmingly by as much as 37 per cent in a year as rising food inflation signals growing shortages in the economy. Wheat and rice stocks in government-owned godowns stood at 511.36 lakh tonnes on October 1, data from the Food Corporation of India...

-ThePrint.in Three-fourths of the full-time workers on Indian farms are women because men move to cities. Yet, there was little attention to uplifting them and their Finances. There was a time when women’s work in agriculture and animal husbandry was rarely counted. But according to the 2015-16 Agriculture Census, 11.72 per cent of the total operated area in the country was operated by female holders. Civil society assessments suggest that three-fourths of...