-TheWire.in Mexican economist David Barkin on India's neoliberal economics, growing inequalities, agrarian distress and more. David Barkin is Professor of Economics at the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico City. He received his doctorate in economics from Yale University and was awarded the National Prize in Political Economics in 1979 for his analysis of inflation in Mexico. His research has focused on the development of an alternative to the capitalist economic model. In an...
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Govt's flip-flop on jobs data continues, impacts credibility -Prashant K Nanda
-Livemint.com The ministry of statistics claims that the payroll data for the most recent months are provisional and again, data for every month is being revised New Delhi: The government’s latest payroll data sourced from the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) points towards the fact that earlier growth numbers may have been exaggerated. In April, when the centre first released the jobs data, it said that between September 2017 and February 2018, India...
More »Ramesh Chand, member, NITI Aayog, interviewed by Seetha (Firstpost.com)
-Firstpost.com The recent increases in minimum support prices have attracted two criticisms from two opposite sides. One is that this is less than what farmers deserve, the second is that this is populist and ignores larger macro side effects. The increase in fair remunerative price for sugarcane has also been criticised for not adequately addressing the woes of the sugar sector. Ramesh Chand, member, agriculture, NITI Aayog talks to Firstpost on...
More »How Lok Sabha members fared in the last four years -K Deepalakshmi Varun & B Krishnan
-The Hindu Many BJP MPs make it to the list of top 10 performers based on attendance, questions asked, and debates participated. The monsoon session of Parliament is set to begin on July 18 and it marks the beginning of the fifth year of the 16th Lok Sabha. With barely a year to go for the general election, here is an analysis, based on the data available in the Lok Sabha and...
More »Arvind Subramanian, outgoing Chief Economic Adviser to the Ministry of Finance, interviewed by TCA Sharad Raghavan (The Hindu)
-The Hindu The outgoing CEA also batted for the lateral entry of talent into the government The compensation payable to the States for revenue loss arising due to GST is just ?5,000 crore, far lower than was estimated, according to Chief Economic Adviser Arvind Subramanian. In a candid interview to The Hindu, the outgoing CEA also batted for the lateral entry of talent into the government, saying that it was a “no brainer”...
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