-The Economic Times Indian farmer's plight has changed little even under GST that aims to revolutionise all kinds of businesses. NEW DELHI: That the farmer has historically had one of the most unrewarding and thankless jobs in India is fairly common knowledge. Data sets after data sets show how Indian farmers have remained hopelessly caught between ineffective policy and equally ineffective implementation — through the Five-Year-Plans era, through successive governments, and through...
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In economic slowdown, a back story about falling investor confidence -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express Fixing the economy today cannot happen through consumption; revival in investment is what's desperately needed. New Delhi: Investment, unlike consumption, satisfies no immediate want. The Businessman putting his money today is basically taking a bet on the future, when it would start yielding returns. Such bets are a function of the “state of confidence” at the time of investment. The investor has to be reasonably, if not absolutely,...
More »'I am Fighting Caste Through Capital. Creamy Layer Can Wait': How Dalits are Going About Their Business -Manas Mitul & Eram Agha
-News18.com The Dalit entrepreneurs said that it was not the right time to define creamy layer. We are still viewed to be good plumbers, electricians, contractors. Not owners of a 500-crore company, said a Dalit Businessman. New Delhi: When Nidhish Anand, a Dalit jeweller in Delhi, was about to enter a partnership with a Brahmin Businessman, Anjani Kumar Pathak, a disclosure preceded the terms of agreement. “But I am a Dalit,” Anand...
More »Kolkata's 200-year-old archives to the rescue of NRC-hit residents -Shiv Sahay Singh
-The Hindu Scores of visitors from Assam are looking for the names of the earlier generations in the electoral rolls from 1952 to 1971; the State archives issues certified copies Kolkata: Mintu Das, a Guwahati-based Businessman, could not find the names of three members of his family on July 30 when the final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) was released in Assam. In the past two days, Mr. Das...
More »Jean Dreze, development economist and social activist, interviewed by Sagar (CaravanMagazine.in)
-CaravanMagazine.in The economist Jean Drèze’s book, Sense and Solidarity, published in late 2017, deals with the impact of Aadhaar on social-welfare programmes, such as the National Food Security Act and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, among other things. Drèze was a member of the United Progressive Alliance government’s advisory council, which designed the NFSA and MGNREGS. He co-authored some of the essays in this book with colleagues and...
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