-Reuters Subsidy cuts may still fail to impress investors: Experts New Delhi: India may slash its food and fuel subsidy bill by about $8 billion in next week's budget, two sources said, but despite the impressive headline, the cut is not as radical as free market champions had hoped for in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first full budget. Most of the 20 per cent cut in the budget for subsidies results from lower...
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The Meaning Of Vikas -Reetika Khera
-Outlook The BJP government needs to understand that "vikas" means growth and development, not growth alone. The new government that came to power with the promise of "vikas" has launched an unrelenting attack on social welfare programmes and legislations. In October 2014, there was a rumour that NREGA would be restricted to some districts. Though the changes proposed have not been implemented, NREGA is in danger of dying a slow death...
More »Direct cash transfers will give spending boost to economy. Crisil explains how -Seetha
-FirstPost.com So we're all familiar with the argument that direct cash transfers (also known as direct benefit transfer or DBT) is a more efficient and cheaper way of delivering subsidies to the poor. Did you also know that this could also give a spending push to the economy? That's what a Crisil Insight report, Cascading cash, catalysing consumption, says, pointing out that an unconditional cash transfer will raise the discretionary spend of...
More »Food security, a slippery slope -S Ramadorai
-The Hindu Business Line There's no Malthusian problem right now, but without sustainable farming the world will be in serious trouble Food security, a seemingly innocuous phrase, is fast becoming one of the most widely discussed topics of our time. A lot of us would associate ‘food security' as a challenge for the impoverished but it could potentially become a much more widespread problem straddling across geographic and economic divides. The issue of...
More »A flawed approach to food security -Deepankar Basu & Debarshi Das
-The Hindu With India continuing to be plagued by malnutrition, it is foolhardy to use the changed food production situation in the domestic economy as a reason for dismantling the FCI Within months of assuming office, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance government set up a High Level Committee (HLC) in August 2014 to restructure, reorient and reform the Food Corporation of India (FCI). The eight-member HLC was chaired by senior BJP leader,...
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