-Hindustan Times He was delivering the inaugural Manoj Srivastava memorial lecture. Manoj Srivastava, a senior IAS officer and a widely acclaimed academic, passed away last year. Nobel laureate Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee on Thursday said the biggest worry due to a Covid-19 pandemic is the widening gap of Inequality in education, as online learning exposure as well as Internet penetration continue to be extremely low, more so in a state like Bihar. He was...

-The Hindu India’s failure to put in place a sound schooling system is exacting a heavy price Word has it that there are two schools of thought among Indian development economists — one advocating growth and the other redistribution. This perception is quite misleading. For one thing, growth and redistribution are not the only means of making the world a better place. To illustrate, civil liberties have much to contribute to the...

-TheNewsMinute.com One highly criticised Tamil Nadu government scheme was giving colour TV sets to households. While it was derided as a ‘freebie’, research has proved otherwise, write Dharanidharan Sivagnanaselvam and Bethanavel Kuppusamy. In a stratified society such as India trickle down economics do not work. Even in a society such as the US, which has a much lower stratification compared to India, trickle down economics has not worked well. Historically, India has...

-Newsclick.in It is easy to see why Dalit entrepreneurs get celebrated, but the market is not casteless, as the media projects. Chandra Bhan Prasad, a noted advocate of entrepreneurship as a way to emancipate Dalits, acknowledged in a recent interview that capitalism breeds Inequality. Prasad and the Dalit Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DICCI), an organisation he supports and promotes, posit Dalit capitalism as an emancipatory tool. DICCI has steered Dalit-run...

-The Telegraph Inequality remains integral to India’s growth story This year marks three decades of market-friendly economic reforms introduced in 1991 by the P.V. Narasimha Rao administration. Manmohan Singh was considered the mastermind behind breaking the shackles of the license-permit raj, an inefficient government, a stifled private sector, and a strictly controlled import regime. All these led to low economic growth, large incidence of poverty, an inefficient, unwieldy public sector, and pervasive...