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Month: February 2019
Citizens’ Insensitivity towards Waste Segregation is eating up Municipal Finances
Jyotsna Goel
Solid Waste Management is a component of public health and sanitation and it falls within the purview of the State List according to the Constitution of India. Since this activity is nonexclusive,...
Public Provisioning for Access to Justice - Applying the Budget Lens
Asadullah
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) accord high priority to access to justice. Goal 16 of the SDGs is to, ‘promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable, provide access to justice...
Questioning Roads to Development
Anurag Mazumdar
Building rural roads has received a fillip under the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) - II government with the pace of construction of rural roads having nearly doubled since 2014. Out of 1,58,013...
Missing: The woman farmer
Sakshi Rai
Land rights structurally escape women. This is a fundamental issue in understanding why women’s work as farmers is largely invisible. However, the large-scale migration of men towards...
144% More Funds For Agriculture, But Not Enough To Quell Farm Unrest
Nilachala Acharya
Agriculture has got an unprecedented 144% rise in allocation in the interim budget announced by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government--from Rs 57,600 crore in the 2018-19 budget estimates to Rs...
Piyush Goyal's FY20 forecast of GST revenue growth is ambitious; any shortfall to affect social sector spending
Malini Chakravarty
The much expected Interim Union Budget 2019-20 was presented on 1 February, 2019 and a number of major announcements were made, with new schemes being introduced, ranging from a small income...
Tackling resource deficiency
Subrat Das
A popular question on the Interim Union Budget for 2019-20 would be: If and to what extent it could help the ruling political dispensation in the elections this year. The initiative of providing...
Two sides of the coin: Tax incentives and revenue forgone
Suraj Jaiswal
The use of tax incentives to attract investments is prevalent around the world. However, there is no definitive data on the global magnitude of incentives granted because not all countries collect...
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