-IndiaSpend.com "Worldwide, inequality of individual wealth is extreme. At the start of 2014, Oxfam calculated that the richest 85 people on the planet owned as much as the poorest half of humanity. Between March 2013 and March 2014, these 85 people grew $668 million richer each day." That is the observation by Oxfam India, an NGO that works on issues relating to poverty and development, in its latest report on inequality...
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Slowdown in China, cotton glut may deal Indian farmers a hard knock -Zia Haq and Gaurav Choudhury
-The Hindustan Times India is likely to face a cotton glut this year. The surplus, however, will be of little comfort to suicide-prone and highly indebted farmers, who stare at a sharp drop in earnings - prices are already down 14% compared with last year. The crisis has to do with a slowdown in China, which is forecast to slash by half the amount of cotton it will import this year, most...
More »Shubhankar Dam, Assistant Professor of Law at Singapore Management UniverSITy School of Law & author of 'Presidential Legislation in India: The Law and Practice of Ordinances' interviewed by V Venkatesan
-Frontline SHUBHANKAR DAM, Assistant Professor of Law at Singapore Management UniverSITy School of Law, is the author of Presidential Legislation in India: The Law and Practice of Ordinances (Cambridge UniverSITy Press, 2014), which has received wide acclaim among scholars of constitutional law. Against the backdrop of his insightful critique on the necesSITy of ordinances in a democracy, Professor Dam discusses in this interview the recent controversy triggered by the Bharatiya Janata...
More »Eminent persons urge President to reject land ordinance
-The Hindu They wabted the govt to table the proposed amendments to the Land AcquiSITion Act, 2013, in Parliament so that they can be "democratically" discussed. A group of concerned citizens has written to President Pranab Mukherjee to "rethink and reject" the Ordinance which seeks to amend the Land AcquiSITion Act of 2013. In a letter to the President, the group has urged him to advise the government to table the proposed amendments...
More »City must be equitable, not smart -Medha Patkar
-The Indian Express Just a few years ago, the World Bank in its World Development Report claimed that migration from rural India to urban centres is "natural" and the same should not be interrupted or prevented through schemes like the MGNREGA. This was a shocking statement to all those who know why there is huge and ever-growing migration to cities, not only of the labour class but also of farmers and small...
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