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Moving Upstream: Luni – Fellowship

The Moving Upstream: Luni program is a continuation of Veditum’s Moving Upstream fellowship program which we co-host with the Out of Eden Walk. For the Luni program, we are partnering with the School of Pubic Policy at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, and this effort is supported by A4Store & Out of Eden Walk. The aim is to document the river and life in and around it, the impact of man-made...

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New consumption survey to track online expenses in bid to capture real economic picture - Ishaan Gera

Economic Times Call it the next-gen consumption survey. The ongoing government consumption survey is going beyond asking what you eat, what you wear, and what you own; it also wants to know your OTT subscription spend, the time you spend online, how often you shop online, whether you order meals from Zomato or Swiggy, and if you own an electric vehicle. India's Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (HCES) will now include questions on...

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Poverty and inequality

KEY TRENDS   • Oxfam India's 2023 India Supplement report on poverty and inequality in India reveals that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. Following the pandemic in 2019, the bottom 50 per cent of the population have continued to see their wealth chipped away. By 2020, their income share was estimated to have fallen to only 13 per cent of the national income and have less than 3...

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‘Flipped classroom’ plan divides academics -Basant Kumar Mohanty

-The Telegraph University Grants Commission has also advocated online exams and ‘blended’ online-offline courses New Delhi: A proposal for India’s universities to introduce “flipped classrooms”, where teachers provide material to students in advance to study at home and the classroom is used for debate, analysis and problem-solving, has divided academics. Central University of Punjab vice-chancellor R.P. Tiwari said flipped classrooms help develop critical thinking while conventional classrooms encourage passive learning, but St Stephens...

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A layperson's guide to understanding the global Human Development Report 2021/22

It is hard for the media to ignore the findings of global Human Development Report (HDR) whenever a newer and updated version is released. Every time when the HDR is published by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), media persons and commentators tend to compare the performance of their respective countries with that of performance in previous years as also with respect to the relative performance of other nations. One of...

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