Citizen Raj: Indian Elections 1952-2019
It is the most definitive account of the history of Indian elections, chronicling the political and economic background against which it has been unfolding since 1952
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It is the most definitive account of the history of Indian elections, chronicling the political and economic background against which it has been unfolding since 1952
Over the past 50 years, India has been a pioneer in discussing and introducing policies toward the alleviation of hunger and poverty. India’s performance record is somewhere between good and excellent in terms of achievement of goals; unfortunately, the specific...
Most commentators have attributed the current agrarian crisis to two successive droughts and demonetization. While droughts do have an adverse impact on agricultural sector, disaggregated data categorically demonstrates that demonetization did not lead to acceleration in the decline of the...
There is a raging controversy about whether poverty levels in India have increased in the nineties, a period co-incident with the ushering in of major economic reforms.
A background report on Employment in India for the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council (EAC-PM)
At this event, Surjit Bhalla will be discussing from his recent book The New Wealth of Nations. He argues that today, over 70 per cent of the world’s middle class reside in the erstwhile poor countries; world income inequality is...
Rumours of even a 1 percentage point decline in GDP growth for 2016/17 are vastly exaggerated, have no basis in logic or fact.
Submitted to the Brookings Institution’s Ending Rural Hunger Project
This article takes as given the accuracy of opinion polls. It offers instead a suggestion towards improving forecasts of elections where traditional assumptions may not be valid. What is offered is a consistent, and ex-ante correction, to polling data. This...
Not only lockdowns were not effective, but that, in a large majority of cases, lockdowns were counter-productive i.e. led to more infections, and deaths than would have been the case with no lockdowns.