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Year: 2021
Reopening schools & Building Back Better: The need for public provisioning in education
Protiva Kundu
When the pandemic started in 2020, as a precautionary measure, the Indian government ordered the closure of all educational institutions across the country. Eventually, schools were shifted to online...
Protecting children during pandemic requires much more than ‘PM CARES for Children’ package
Simonti Chakraborty
The experience of the last one-and-a-half years of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has thrown up several questions on the framework of child protection in India. One of the most...
The Booming Edtech Industry in India: Should We Be Worried?
Protiva Kundu
The educational landscape of India has been transformed by a series of developments in new-age pedagogies. Use of technology in education is one of the milestones in this direction. This has resulted...
The Pandemic has Snapped Communication Lines between Schools and Students in India
Protiva Kundu
As one of the 193 United Nations Member States to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals, India is committed to the UN pledge to “leave no one behind.” A crucial aspect of achieving these...
Why do ASHA workers in India earn so little?
Shruti Ambast
India’s response to the pandemic has depended heavily on the exploited labour of women workers, most of them from marginalised backgrounds. These are ASHAs or Accredited Social Health Activists,...
Some International Developments on Issues of Tax Justice and Corporate Taxation
Madhav Tipu Ramachandran
On June 5, the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies secured a landmark deal on taxing multinational companies. They agreed to a global minimum corporate tax rate of at least 15 percent – coupled...
Swadhar Greh: Scheme for Women in Distress is in Distress
Anjana Rajagopalan
During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in 2020, National Commission for Women (NCW) received 23722 complaints of crimes against women, the highest in the past 6 years. Even before the pandemic,...
What Should India's Response Be to the Global Minimum Corporate Tax Debate?
Madhav Tipu Ramachandran
There seems to be a growing momentum around the world for a transformation of the global tax system, following US treasury secretary Janet Yellen’s comments last week, and various other...
Can we get the public expenditure management framework for agriculture sector right?
Amit Kumar and Nilachala Acharya
Performance of agriculture sector in times of pandemic The impact of COVID-19 pandemic has been felt across all the sectors of the economy and agriculture is no exception. However, resilience of...
Research Radio Ep 20: Are Teachers Responsible for India’s Bad Public Education System?
Protiva Kundu
In this episode, we speak to Protiva Kundu about the state of Indian public education and the National Education Policy, 2020. Government school teachers are often...
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