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While Malnutrition Rages, Nutrition-Related Schemes Get 19% Less Funding
Happy Pant and Shruti Ambast
Budget 2020 does not address the financial and resource shortages affecting nutrition interventions in India, an analysis of budget data shows. Public provisioning for nutrition is important given...
Shrinking Education Budget Has Hit Scholarships For Students From Deprived Communities
Protiva Kundu
Substantial reduction in the education budget over the last five years has reduced allocations for scholarships given to students from marginalised communities, affecting their ability to stay in the...
Championing Tax Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific
Sakshi Rai
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...
Fixing Immoral and Abuse Global Tax Practices: The Problem of Illicit Financial Flows
Matti Kohonen
The 74th session of United Nations General Assembly concluded on September 30, 2019. This year, calls were made for a Green New Deal to mitigate climate and inequality emergencies. Amid rising...
Fund Transfer Delay Common Cause for Concern in States’ Health Performance
Happy Pant
The Health Index, titled Healthy States, Progressive India, published some time ago, presents an assessment of states and Union Territories, based on their health performance. The second edition...
Draft NEP's Suggestions on Financing Education Need a Much Closer Look
Protiva Kundu
In the 2014 general elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s manifesto promised a new education policy that would “meet the changing dynamics of the population’s requirement…”. After...
What Should India Take Away From the ‘Mauritius Leaks’?
Neeti Biyani and Sakshi Rai
A new investigation called the ‘Mauritius Leaks’ was released by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) earlier this week. Based on 2,00,000 confidential records...
Budget Arithmetic For 2019-20 Reveals The Potential Concerns On Fiscal Federalism
Subrat Das
Some of the important figures in Union Budget for 2019-20 would seem a little too ambitious if one takes a close look at two sets of budgetary figures available at present for Union Government’s...
Bengal's Healthcare Has Become Dysfunctional. Here's How We Can Fix It
Mampi Bose
Recent mayhem in West Bengal’s public hospitals, as doctors were on strike for eight days, reflects the larger implosion of the health system of the state. The incidents that led to the strike...
GDP as Denominator, Federal Plan, Tax Incentives: Where Draft National Education Policy Needs Tuning
Protiva Kundu
On May 31, the Dr. Kasturirangan Committee submitted the draft New Education Policy (NEP) 2019 to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). The policy has immense significance as it comes...
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