Nilachala Acharya
Availability of budget data / information through various reports and web portals of a government is considered as one of the strong pillars of budget transparency. Since governments deal with public...
Rakshita Swamy
A recently concluded social audit of the implementation of Building and other Construction Workers (BOCW) Act in Delhi and Rajasthan clearly demonstrated that construction workers who build and make...
Richa Chintan
“There are virtually no limits on what can be privatised”, so opined the World Bank in 1992[1]. However, at that time, the concept of privatisation was used largely in the context of industrial...
Priyanka Samy
How would you situate a Trans-Dalit-Muslim woman, especially when her identity is intersected by factors such as poverty, disability or her status of being a migrant? Should her identity be defined...
Protiva Kundu
Friedman in his book Capitalism and Freedom argued that “there is one and only one social responsibility of business - to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits...
Kanika Kaul
“Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you value”, remarked Joe Biden, former American Vice President during the 2008 Presidential Campaign. Against the...
Jyotsna Goel
India has committed to ambitious action on climate change mitigation, pledging that renewable energy will be 40 percent of country’s expected generation capacity in 2020, which includes a wind...
Malini Chakravarty
For a long time it was assumed that economic inequality in India is low compared to countries with similar per capita income. This notion arose because inequality in India is measured mainly in terms...
Anurag Mazumdar
Although the waters have ebbed and a sense of normalcy has returned to Kerala, memories of the devastating floods in late-August persist in public imagination. The deluge, caused by a combination of...
Happy Pant
CBGA has been carrying out cutting-edge policy research and advocacy, from the perspective of poor and underprivileged since its inception one and a half decades ago. As we moved forward taking...
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