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Was BJP's 2014 manifesto a jumla for farmers and agriculture sector? -Sanjeev Singh

-The Times of India blog With little over than a year left for the 2019 general elections, the Narendra Modi led NDA government has finally remembered the farmers of the country. Last week, finance minister Arun Jaitley said agriculture sector is the government’s top PRIority in this year’s budget. This has left many surPRIsed considering BJP had promised to ensure a minimum of 50% profit over cost of production in their...

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Only 15% landholders earn 91% of total national income -Richard Mahapatra

-Down to Earth Income inequality makes agrarian crisis challenging; inequality is worse among farmers than the formal economy Economists Lucas Chancel and Thomas Piketty recently concluded after a long study that inequality is at its peak in India. It is embedded in popular conscience: “Top 1 per cent of earners captured 22 per cent of total income in the country.” Their study–covering consumption, government accounts and income tax data from 1922...

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Social security still a raw deal for many -Garimella Subramaniam

-The Hindu The goal of comprehensive social security coverage remains a mere slogan in many parts of the world A recent global report on social security could serve as a useful starting point to understand the appeal of populism across the world. The World Social Protection Report 2017-19 of the International Labour Organisation could also be viewed as a bluePRInt for action by political parties of the mainstream. A vast majority of people...

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Problem of plenty: on devising a sound agricultural policy

-The Hindu Agricultural policy should look to address the problem of severe PRIce fluctuations There appears to be no end in sight to the cycle of boom and bust in the PRIces of agricultural goods. Over the last few weeks, across India the PRIce of potatoes has fallen sharply after a year of bumper production. With the PRIce of a kilogram of potato dropping as low as under a rupee in certain...

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