-TheWire.in The Narela industrial complex is one of the biggest in Asia, packed with booming small-scale industrial units. It runs entirely on the labour of low-income workers who have very little say on their pay and living conditions. In order to start liberalising trade and industrial production capacity through economic policy, the Indian nation-state began implementing a set of Washington Consensus style neo-liberal economic reforms in the early 1990s. The Liberalisation push across...

-The Hindu Business Line Why access to capital for MSME entrepreneurs has the potential to alter India’s social fabric India’s social fabric has undergone a series of transformations since Independence. After the Liberalisation of the economy in the 1990s, the market opened up and employment opportunities grew, as did the spending power and standard of living of the average Indian. As financial access grew, so did social mobility. However, certain sections have lagged...

-Newsclick.in Politics, not facts, have weaponised demographic claims in India, but the population is still heading for a decline, and that’s true for all communities. For decades, Indian politics has revolved around the bogey of ‘explosive’ population growth. Population is routinely blamed for virtually every socio-economic problem in the country. Until the 1990s, governments actively pursued population ‘control’ measures through means fair and foul. What few mention is that effectively, India’s TFR...

-The Hindu India’s flip-flop on the export of wheat is an example of the Government lacking a coherent policy of food security The Government of India announced a sudden ban on export of wheat on May 13, 2022, a few days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi had stated that “at a time when the world is facing a shortage of wheat, the farmers of India have stepped forward to feed the world”....

-Foundation for Agrarian Studies The project report titled “Public Spending on Agriculture in India: 2010-11 to 2019-20,” has been released in April, 2022. The report has been prepared by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies with the support of Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung, New Delhi. In 2021, the Foundation for Agrarian Studies conducted a research project to analyse the trends in public spending on agriculture in India for the most recent decade (2010-11 to...