Political parties are outdoing each other promising free electricity and water, laptops, cycles, mixies, etc.. Implementation of these promises will have economic implications that are not negative in the present circumstances. Disdainfully these are called `freebies’ and characterized as...
Anil TrigunayatChina has emerged as a force to reckon with in the Middle East after quietly pursuing its strategic, economic, and security objectives for decades while expanding the tentacles of its all-encompassing Belt and Road Initiative. Beijing’s focused approach...
Tikender Singh PanwarThe Union Budget 2022-23 has not provided relief to people most severely affected by the pandemic. The Budget was expected to address record unemployment, which spiked during the pandemic in the cities, with some kind of urban...
IMPRI TeamMGNREGA is a 20-year-old employment act that guarantees 100 days of work to all households whose adult members volunteer to do unskilled manual work. During the pandemic, it has been a saviour to migrant workers who could barely...
IMPRI TeamWith the onset of the pandemic and the subsequent lockdown, the discourse on crime and crime against women specifically has gained significant momentum. In light of this, it becomes imperative to disentangle various factors that have contributed to...
Any debate on development is incomplete without critically engaging its power. People Power Campaign (PPC) was a bold initiative and was first in India with the motto of power to people– trans power. #IMPRI Center for Habitat, Urban and...
Devender Singh and Venkatesh Srinivasan National Family Health Survey 5 shows that fertility in India is declining, and the total fertility rate (TFR) has, in fact, reached 2.0, a notch below 2.1, the replacement level of fertility. This, in...
Arjun Kumar, Soumyadip ChattopadhyayBudget proposals bode well for the infrastructure sector. However, unless the Government’s plan is backed by institutional reforms, we will not be able to exploit the true potential of urbanizationThe Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala...
Santosh Mehrotra and Jajati Keshari ParidaIndia’s Social Security Code 2020, which merges eight existing laws, will not do enough to ensure a safety net for informal workers.As much as 91% of India’s workforce of 475 million is informal and therefore...
Harsh V. Pant & Shashank Mattoo The House of Representatives within the US just lately handed the America Competes Act, 2022. Buried in 3,000 pages of tariff exemptions on golf equipment and rules on fisheries lies America’s grand technique for...
