Month: November 2019

Why the uproar about increasing cesses and surcharges

Malini Chakravarty

• 29 November 2019
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Lately, you might have come across two terminologies - cesses and surcharges - being discussed frequently in the media. It is possible you may have even wondered if cesses and surcharges levied by...

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A Safe Public Transport System: An Enabler to Women’s Participation in the Workforce

Shuchita Rawal

• 22 November 2019
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Indian women contribute just 18 per cent of national GDP, one of the lowest proportions in the world. This reflects the fact that only 25 per cent of India’s labour force is female. Further, India...

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Lines We Cross: ‘Women’, Intersectionality and the Global South

Sakshi Rai

• 18 November 2019
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In 2015, Nivedita Menon’s published an article on “Is Feminism about ‘Women’? A Critical View on Intersectionality from India”. The article scrutinises intersectionality as a universal...

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15th Finance Commission: Is shrinking fiscal space the only concern for the states?

Simonti Chakraborty

• 13 November 2019
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The Terms of Reference (TOR) of the 15th Finance Commission (15th FC) has met with several criticisms ever since its publication on 27th November 2017. Experts have explicitly expressed concerns...

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Championing Tax Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific

Sakshi Rai

• 9 November 2019
• The Diplomat
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There is no denying that the global financial system is broken. A recent report by UNESCAP shows that income inequality has grown in almost 40 percent of all Asia-Pacific countries, coinciding with...

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Linking Health Budget to States’ Performance- Does it Pose any Problem?

Happy Pant

• 8 November 2019
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NITI Aayog came out with an assessment of the States and Union Territories on their health performance in its report, Healthy States Progressive India  a few months back. It examined the overall...

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Promotion of Farmer Producers’ Organisations: Rhetoric versus Policy Action

Gurpreet Singh

• 5 November 2019
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There has been a continuous policy discussion by the current Union Government on doubling the farmers’ income by 2022. On the contrary, evidences of farmers’ distress due to declining/stagnant...

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