-Newsclick.in The poorest, whose annual income surged by 183% between 2005 and 2016, have been most impacted by COVID-19, shows survey In a K-shaped economic recovery since COVID-19 hit India, there was a massive plunge of 53% in the annual income of the poorest 20% of Indian households from 2015-16 to 2020-21. Besides the drastic fall in their annual income, which was rising since 1995, the share of the poorest 20% in...
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Corruption Allegations Felled The UPA, But Modi’s Bribery-Fighting Lokpal Has Little To Do -Saurav Das
-Article-14.com One of the issues that brought PRIme Minister Narendra Modi to power in 2014 was corruption, the antidote to which was to be a Lokpal, a public ombudsman. His government reluctantly set it up only five years later, after a Supreme Court order. In 2021, it received no more than 30 complaints, with critical posts of inquiry and prosecution chiefs vacant, a third of its budget unused and a former...
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- The India Cable/ TheWire.in India is now one of the most unequal countries for both income and wealth inequality — and has shown the most rapid increases in inequality. The Paris-based World Inequality Lab has become a major source of data on global inequality, based on careful aggregation of national data from a multitude of sources, of both income and wealth inequality, at national, regional and global levels. Their latest World...
More »Sulli Deals, Bulli Bai and the young and educated hatemongers -Alok Deshpande and Hemani Bhandari
-The Hindu Two apps — Sulli Deals and Bulli Bai — created by young engineering students sought to silence Muslim women by putting a PRIce on their dignity. Hemani Bhandari and Alok Deshpande report on the investigation that led to the arrest of the brains behind these apps It was around 10:30 p.m. on January 5. The Bishnoi family had already turned in when a Delhi Police team arrived at their house...
More »Should the government loosen its purse strings? -Prashanth Perumal
-The Hindu As inflation is driven by supply-side factors, tax policy can be used to cushion its impact With the Union Budget 10 days away, many economic observers are now focused on what support the Centre can offer the economy, which is still struggling to recover from the pandemic. Some analysts believe that the government must keep its spending in check to prevent PRIce rise from getting out of control. Retail inflation...
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