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Rebooting Economy 61: All that's wrong with guaranteed MSP outside APMC
Prasanna Mohanty
January 25, 2021
The government gives guaranteed return to private companies in its business dealings and considers their profit-motive good and desirable. Why the same doesn't hold true for farmers?
Rebooting Economy 56: Why India should follow agricultural development-led industrialisation growth model
Prasanna Mohanty
January 6, 2021
Most successful, industrialised and fast-growing Asian economies like Japan, South Korea, China, and Vietnam followed this model, as did Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Why can't India?
Kerala to complete, launch Rs 10,000 crore development projects in 100 days
PTI
December 24, 2020
Making the announcements, Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the Left government could \"successfully complete\" 570 of the total 600 poll promises mentioned in the LDF's election manifesto besides hundreds of other projects not part of it since 2016
Rebooting Economy 52: The unfinished agenda of land reforms nobody talks about
Prasanna Mohanty
December 14, 2020
Landless, marginal, and small farmers together constitute 93.7% of the total agricultural workforce in India. Can sustainable agricultural growth and farmers' well-being be achieved without land reforms?
NABARD promotes non-agri sectors to limit West Bengal's over-reliance on farming
PTI
November 22, 2020
With the objective of arresting such migration, Nabard is putting more thrust on the formation of Off-Farm Producer Organisations or OFPOs to take up collective business activities and generate local employment through value addition
Rebooting Economy 47: Do India's fiscal numbers suggest a quick turn-around?
Prasanna Mohanty
November 19, 2020
While India is firmly focused on AatmaNirbhar Bharat for a V-shaped recovery, its key fiscal numbers show the economy is slipping with falling capital expenditure, muted consumption and higher precautionary savings
Rebooting Economy 41: India's growing poverty and hunger nobody talks about
Prasanna Mohanty
November 2, 2020
Multiple estimates by multilateral institutions show the COVID-19 pandemic will hit India the hardest by sending 40 million people into \"extreme poverty\", worsen hunger and income inequality, and yet the government seems oblivious with no data, no estimation or policy response
SBI economists propose 'Adopt-A-Family' scheme for taxpayers
BusinessToday.In
October 19, 2020
Scheme is voluntary and taxpayers with income up to over Rs 10 lakh may be incentivised for supporting a poor family with Rs 5,000 per month; govt can incentivise taxpayers with around Rs 50,000 tax deduction apart from exemption offered under 80C
COVID-19 impact: By 2021, as many as 150 million people likely to be in extreme poverty, says World Bank
PTI
October 7, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to push an additional 88 million to 115 million people into extreme poverty this year, with the total rising to as many as 150 million by 2021
Rebooting Economy 33: Where have the good old full-time decent jobs gone?
Prasanna Mohanty
October 5, 2020
Part I of this two-part article traces the growth of temporary employment in government and the practice of keeping a larger number of posts vacant even in the face of a severe job crisis
Power tariff to be raised by 20 paise per unit in Odisha from Oct 1; farmers to be excluded
PTI
September 24, 2020
The OERC's decision came in response to an application by the states lone bulk electricity supplier GRIDCO (Grid Corporation of Odisha) on August 21
Over 1.26 cr got free treatment, 23,000 hospitals empanelled under Ayushman Bharat: Harsh Vardhan
PTI
September 23, 2020
Over 23,000 hospitals have been empanelled so far and more than 12.5 crore e-cards have been issued
Rebooting Economy XXVI: Derailment of economy is not 'Act of God', it is 'Art of Misdirection'
Prasanna Mohanty
September 11, 2020
Part II of this two-part article continues to relook at misadventures that derailed the Indian economy, threatening dreams of millions of \"aspirational\" Indians. Instead of a serious and meaningful debate, India continues to grapple with constant and systemic \"misdirection\" in multiple sense of the word
Demonetisation, GST, lockdown were 'disaster-strokes': Congress attacks Centre over economy woes
Joe C Mathew
September 3, 2020
Referring to FM Nirmala Sitharaman's observations that the the current COVID-19 induced economic crisis was an act of God, Congress said \"this is the only government in the past 73 years which blames 'God' for its own frauds and bluster\"
74th Independence Day Highlights: PM Modi warns China, says gave a befitting reply in Ladakh
BusinessToday.In
August 15, 2020
PM Modi Speech Highlights on Independence day 2020: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his 74th Independence Day speech today, warned China adding that India gave it a befitting reply in Ladakh. PM Modi further stated that the world has been a witness to India's capabilities
COVID-19 treatment: Jubilant Life launches generic version of remdesivir at Rs 4,700 per vial
PTI
August 4, 2020
On July 20, 2020, the company received approval from the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) to manufacture and market remdesivir for 100 mg/vial (lyophilized injection) for restricted emergency use in India for the treatment of severe COVID-19
India's third plasma bank inaugurated in Noida
BusinessToday.In
July 27, 2020
The blood plasma from the bank will be used to moderate the condition of serious COVID-19 patients if the need arises. The price per unit as been set as Rs 10,500 for the general public
Rebooting Economy VIII: COVID-19 pandemic could push millions of Indians into poverty and hunger
Prasanna Mohanty
July 20, 2020
Findings of several global studies reflect the fragile nature of existing policies and programmes aimed at eliminating poverty and hunger and call for rethinking economics to ensure sustainable and enduring outcomes
Coronavirus fallout: IMF lowers forecast for 2020 global economic growth
Associated Press
June 25, 2020
For 2021, the IMF envisions a rebound in growth, so long as the viral pandemic doesn't erupt in a second major wave
Kerala plans to provide free internet access to 20 lakh families by 2020
BusinessToday.In
June 24, 2020
With the KFON project, the Kerala government has promised to deliver internet free of cost to 2 million families living below the poverty line. The project is funded at a cost of Rs 1,548 crores
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