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The Cloud of Troubles
Trisha Agarwala
During the last few decades, India has been experiencing an increasing number of natural disasters that have caused huge financial burdens to the Central Government as well as to several State...
Harnessing Renewable Energy: Experience of India
Saumya Shrivastava
This article provides a brief overview of the renewable energy sector in India. The importance of harnessing renewable energy has been widely acknowledged, for both meeting the ever increasing energy...
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan: Prospects and Challenges
Kanika Kaul
The article discusses some of the features of the newly proposed Swachch Bharat Abhiyan. Though the detailed guidelines of the programme have not been issued yet, a preliminary assessment has been...
Urban Poor in India: Addressing the Challenges
Amar Chanchal
This article highlights the fact that the urban areas have failed to meet the demands of the increasing population pressure resulting in large gaps in provisioning of basic amenities. Deprivation of...
HDR Accords High Priority to Basic Social Services and Social Protection
Happy Pant
This article explains the findings of the latest Human Development Report (HDR), 2014. It reveals that India has maintained its position at 135 out of 187 countries, reflecting little improvement in...
Ensuring Good Governance and Effective Institutions: Can We Afford to Ignore Capacity Issues?
Subrat Das
The paper explores the significance of capacity of governance with reference to the experience of public policies and their implementation in India over the past decade. The author notes that the...
What Does the Union Budget have for Health and Education?
Protiva Kundu
The Union Budget 2014-15 has a few new interventions in the social sector and there is an increase in allocation for select schemes and programmes. This article suggests a need for higher financial...
Flow of Credit to Agriculture
Nilachala Acharya
Financial inclusion is necessary for growth to be inclusive. Increasing the amount of credit flow to the agriculture sector, particularly provisioning of credit to small and marginal farmers is one...
Budget for 2014-15: Not much different from the interim budget
Subrat Das
The new government got a little over a month to carry out the budget preparation process, which usually takes up to five months in every financial year. Hence, it would not be very reasonable to...
Party Economics
Neeti Biyani
One of prime minister Narendra Modi’s first decisions, to set up a special investigating team (SIT) to probe the matter of black money stashed abroad, reopens some of the biggest questions for the...
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