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Rail Budget 2016: Prabhu Signals Shifting Focus to Customers, Staff
Payal Dey
Preparation of budgets is traditionally an incremental process: the first railway budget of the present government took off from the landscape sketched in the 12th Five Year Plan. Expansion,...
Budget 2016: Will Changed Centre-State Resource Sharing Impact Fund Usage for Development Schemes?
Happy Pant
Most states are left with unspent balances in development schemes of different departments, which in turns impairs achievement of objectives of these schemes. Though, the extent and quality of fund...
Budget 2016: Lagging Quality Education; Increase Public Investment to Improve Basic Infrastructure
Protiva Kundu
Providing free and compulsory education to all children is enshrined in the Indian Constitution as a Fundamental Right. Adoption of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act,...
Budget 2016: PAHAL may be a Success but not all DBTs are; FM should mind the Gaps
Malini Chakravarty
Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) schemes, in vogue for some time in India now, have surfaced with renewed fervour over the last year and a half. DBT, as the term suggests, is a strategy aimed to...
Budget 2016: Nirbhaya Fund is a Dud; Jaitley Should Urgently Find Ways to Utilise It
Kanika Kaul
The high incidence of violence against women and the ensuing public outcry has brought the issue to the forefront of the policy discourse in the last few years, underscoring the need for the...
Open Budget Survey 2015: What does it say about budget transparency in India?
CBGA
Open Budget Survey 2015 What does it say about budget transparency in...
Women’s Paid and Unpaid Work: Some Reflections
Sona Mitra
It is generally and quite correctly argued that within an economy, women’s work participation is determined by several factors such as age, education level, skill levels, wages, household income...
The Myth of Increased Resources for States
Sona Mitra
The Government's claim of increased resources to the States is misleading unless the resource pool is substantially increased to cover for cuts in the Centrally Sponsored...
New Information Exchange Standard on Offshore Accounts
Pooja Rangaprasad
In 2014, G20 countries endorsed a new system of information exchange, automatic exchange of financial information, developed by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The...
Issues Around Financing for Development
Happy Pant
The upcoming international conference on Financing for Development to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in July 2015 will have a vital role in formulating a comprehensive approach for strengthening...
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