In this winter of gloom, doom and corruption, the government can bask in some warmth from data collected by its statistical agencies. (Alas, these agencies have yet to hire some basic data-processing capabilities from minor computer firms, let alone agencies like Infosys. Perhaps Nandan Nilekani can loan some programmers from the UID project.) So what is the issue, and what is the evidence?It was only a few months ago that...
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After favourable WTO verdict, US told to return shrimp money by Amiti Sen
India has asked the US to return shrimp exporters’ money locked up in Customs bonds. The US had imposed anti-dumping duty of 10.17% on Indian shrimps in 2005 and also asked local importers to provide enhanced Customs bonds worth the duty for past 12-month imports. When the US shrimp importers refused to furnish these bonds, India’s exporters had to shoulder the cost to keep shipments going. Following a successful complaint by...
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The CPI(M) today said the government has "no mandate" to negotiate the Indo-European Union Free Trade Agreement (FTA) without consulting Parliament and political parties as it would adversely affect the economy and large sections of the people. Maintaining that negotiations on FTA "till date have been conducted under a veil of secrecy", it claimed that the Government has in the past signed agreements that "affect large sections of the people adversely...
More »An income commission for farmers by Sreelatha Menon
When little children in cities have a Happy Meal burger at McDonalds and get a Batman car or Ben 10 toy free, they are getting much more for free — all gift-wrapped by wheat and potato farmers in some far-off village. They are not paying for the labour put in by the farmer, the profits forgone by him, and the higher cost of living that he did not bill on...
More »CPI(M): why this “veil of secrecy” over FTA with EU
‘Government does not have mandate to conduct parleys without discussion'Several areas of concerns in texts being negotiated for the India-EU FTAThe Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Saturday expressed concern over the “veil of secrecy” around negotiations for the India-European Union Free Trade Agreement (FTA), and re-emphasised that the Manmohan Singh government did not have the mandate to conduct parleys on it without discussion within the country.Referring to the EU...
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