-Mumbai Mirror Malnutrition isn't a rural worry. Worse, in Mumbai, it's not the lack of food but craving for junk that's proving fatal. SAMmrudhi Pawar is playing with her two-anda-half-year-old brother Siddhartha. "Do you like Maggi?" we ask. She nods. "How many times can you eat it in a day?" One hand clinging to her dress, the four-year-old bends over a low stool placed outside the Dhobi Ghat centre of the Foundation...
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WTO battle brews as members charge India with under-stating farm sops -Amiti Sen
-The Hindu Business Line Question use of US dollar to notify subsidies, low-income/resource-poor tag for all farmers India has yet another fight on its hands at the World Trade Organization (WTO) over food subsidies. Many developed nations are now questioning the agriculture subsidies notified by India, charging that the country may have under-stated the actual figures. India's decision to notify the subsidies in US dollars rather than the rupee is particularly under the...
More »Explained: Understanding the permanent solution at WTO -Harish Damodaran
-The Indian Express Last week, India and the US reached an understanding on working out a "permanent solution" to the issue of public stockholding for food security purposes at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The deal is seen as a breakthrough, ending the impasse that had stalled the implementation of a landmark Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) hammered out at the WTO's ministerial conference in Bali last December. * What is this deal...
More »Silent heroes -Swati Daftuar
-The Hindu The Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award 2014 sought to recognise projects that work towards improving the urban conditions of communities in Delhi We know what's going wrong, and we ask the right questions; questions which crop up while our car drives down narrow roads with broken street lights, landfills spilling over with waste we have created from nothing, and slums we cannot really imagine the insides of. Our city is...
More »Creating 'Good Jobs': Assessing the Labour Market Regulation Debate -Radhika Kapoor
-Economic and Political Weekly The current regime seeks to reform labour laws with the understanding that these reforms will improve industrial growth and expand the possibilities of enterprise. However, there is already ample evidence from within India that this obsession with reforming labour law, particularly in the way the government has done it till now, will not take us any closer in creating more jobs or a healthy industrial sector. These...
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