-TheWire.in/ Macroscan.org The huge, unexplained discrepancy between the budget amounts and the 'provisional actual' figures for Central expenditure and revenue open the entire budget exercise to serious question, argues jayati ghosh. Please click here to read more. ...
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Civil Society Members Demand Counting of 'All VVPAT Slips' for 'Fullest Transparency'
-TheWire.in "If free and fair elections are integral to the running of our democracy, the voter has to be provided with a mechanism where the casting of a vote is visible, and apparent to his or her understanding." New Delhi: Members of civil society have released a statement demanding the counting of all VVPAT slips for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Recommending that “the VVPAT slips be recognised as the ballot paper”, the...
More »Why is South Asia performing so badly on the SDGs? -CP Chandrasekhar and jayati ghosh
-NetworkIdeas.org The SDGs were obviously incredibly ambitious – far more so than the Millennium Development Goals that they succeeded – and so it was indeed a remarkable achievement that governments of almost all countries signed up to them. There were no less than 17 very significant and substantive goals, each containing multiple targets, and each target relying often on more than one indicator. And these goals and targets are not simply...
More »There is a way to deliver a minimum income guarantee -- but Congress hasn't found it -jayati ghosh
-The Indian Express Instead of embarking on a massive administrative exercise with uncertain benefits, it is possible to think of another combination of public interventions that would actually ensure minimum income to a much larger proportion of the population. The Congress party’s recent declaration that, if voted to power, it will seek to ensure a minimum income to 20 per cent of the poorest households in the country, is laudable in...
More »Political meddling in economic data puts India's global reputation at risk, warn 108 leading experts
-Scroll.in They observed that data unfavourable to the government was getting revised or suppressed on the basis of questionable methodologies. A group of economists and social scientists on Thursday urged the Indian government to restore the integrity of statistical organisations as their national and global reputation was “at stake”. Any data unfavourable to the government “seems to get revised or suppressed on the basis of some questionable methodology”, they said, citing some...
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