-TheWire.in Apart from teaching at JNU, he was a member of the Planning Commission from 2004-2014 and headed the Commission on Agricultural Costs and Prices, 1997-2000. New Delhi: Professor Abhijit Sen, a leading expert on the rural economy and a former member of the Planning Commission, died here on Monday night after a brief illness. He was 72 years old. In an academic career spanning over four decades, Sen taught economics at Sussex,...
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Why don’t Indian fruit sellers make it big despite good profits? Imperfect competition, says study -Nikhil Rampal
-ThePrint.in Study by Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee & other scholars from US, UK and Canada found that fresh produce vendors charge high mark-ups but fail to adopt competitive market practices. New Delhi: Anyone who has haggled with a thelewala or streetside vendor in India knows that they often apply big mark-ups on prices and make good margins. Yet, selling fruits and vegetables in India is generally associated with “peanuts” when it comes...
More »Why do unethical pharma practices thrive? -T Srikrishna and S Srinivasan
-The Hindu Business Line The laws concerned are riddled with loopholes. A mandatory, enforceable code for ethical pharmaceutical marketing is a must The recent kerfuffle over a particular brand of the painkiller paracetamol 650 mg tablet is not really over the particular brand as much as about the unethical marketing tactics of the pharmaceutical industry in India. Gone are the days when a mere ball-point pen or a diary from a medical representative...
More »In 2021, over 45K women died by suicide in India, 23,000 of them are housewives: NCRB data -Sharangee Dutta
-Hindustan Times The report found that Tamil Nadu (3,221) accounted for the most number of suicides among housewives, followed by Madhya Pradesh (3,055), and Maharashtra (2,861). As many as 45,026 women killed themselves in 2021 in India with more than 23,000 of them being housewives, the latest National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report said. This comes even as the rate of deaths by suicides across the country during the year peaked to...
More »Tamil Nadu: People above 80 may get higher old-age pension under new govt policy -C Shivakumar
-The New Indian Express Currently, all those who are above 60 years of age and fulfill the economic criteria stipulated by the government are eligible for a monthly pension of Rs 1,000 in the State. CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu government may soon tweak the old-age pension scheme offered for senior citizens by introducing an age-based differential pension scheme for people in the 60-70, 70-80, and 80+ age groups. According to the new Senior Citizen...
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